Blar i forfatter "Westerlund, Olle"

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    • The creative class: do jobs follow people or do people follow jobs? 

      Østbye, Stein; Moilanen, Mikko; Tervo, Hannu; Westerlund, Olle (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-01-19)
      Regional adjustment models are applied to explore causal interaction between two types of people distinguished by educational attainment, and two types of jobs: creative class jobs and other jobs. Data used are for labour market regions in Finland, Norway and Sweden from the 2000s. Creative class jobs follow people with high educational attainment (one way causation), but creative class jobs also ...

    • Is migration important for regional convergence? Comparative evidence for Norwegian and Swedish counties, 1980-2000 

      Westerlund, Olle; Østbye, Stein (Working paper; Arbeidsnotat, 2006-06)
      Regional convergence studies have relied on net migration data in assessing the impact of migration. With heterogeneous labour, the implied symmetrical treatment of immigration and emigration cannot be justified a priori.. Because of heterogeneity among migrants, gross migration flows may lead to considerable interregional redistribution of human capital even when net migration is zero. Moreover, ...

    • Management, markets and politics: Statistical screening for historical footprints in Arctic coal mining 

      Østbye, Stein; Sand, Jan Yngve; Westerlund, Olle (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011-11-29)
      The paper looks at the economic performance of the main (coal mining) company operating in Svalbard based on time series data from 1922 to 2006 and uses statistical techniques to detect structural breaks in economic indicators decomposed into components that the company control or influence and components that are exogenous. The analysis suggests distinctive historical periods and illustrates that ...