composition of parent-child time varies across countries with different welfare regimes: Finland, Germany and the United States …

We use a range of data sources to assess if, and to what extent, government redistribution policies have slowed or … redistribution systems in place, greater inequality automatically leads to more redistribution, even if no policy action is taken. We … redistribution. Between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, the redistributive strength of tax-benefit systems then weakened in many …

If redistribution is distortionary, and if the income of skilled workers is due to knowledgeintensive activities and … reduction reduces statis inefficiency. On the other hand, standard redistribution also reduces the level of R and D because it … that standard redistribution always dominates limitations to IPRs. …

Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada’s immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration …

This paper aims to throw light on the development of top incomes in Sweden as well as the causes for change. Using …

the United States and Canada are compared. These countries’ immigration flows have large differences in source countries …, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational … attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is …

that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …

and Canada addresses three questions. First, is there something to explain? We suggest that the existing literature finds …

in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …