per cent between 2008 and 2011, but the greatest losses were strongly concentrated on the bottom and top deciles. Tax …

that top shares increase in periods of above average growth while democracy and high marginal tax rates are associated with …

This paper aims to throw light on the development of top incomes in Sweden as well as the causes for change. Using … rise in the top income share are several: the development of stock prices, the tax reform which made income taxes not …

While there is an extensive literature on tax evasion a further aspect of cheating on the state, namely benefit fraud … differences between benefit fraud and tax evasion due to differing social norms. We define the concepts of benefit morale and tax … large micro data set of respondents from 29 OECD member countries, shows that benefit morale and tax morale have different …

to low skill use and insufficient skill maintenance later on in life. High marginal tax rates and generous benefit … systems reduce labor force participation rates and hours worked and thereby lower the utilization rate of human capital. Tax …

immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees … Sweden. They also fully support the selection hypothesis for labour and family migrants but only partially for refugees …

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …

metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …