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Lindbeck, Assar; Nyberg, Sten; Weibull, Jörgen W. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

The paper analyses the interaction between economic incentives and work norms in the context of social insurance. If the work norm is endogenous in the sense that it is weaker when the population share of beneficiaries is higher, then voters will choose less generous benefits than otherwise. We...

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Trust Drives Internet Use

Ljunge, Martin - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

This paper estimates the effect of trust on internet use by studying the general population as well as second … generation immigrants in 29 European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is a significant positive effect of trust on … internet use. The positive trust effect is not universal to all media, as individuals with high trust are shown to consume less …

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Trust Issues: Evidence from Second Generation Immigrants

Ljunge, Martin - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012

This paper estimates the intergenerational transmission of trust by studying second generation immigrants in 29 … European countries with ancestry in 87 nations. There is significant transmission of trust on the mother’s side. The … transmission is stronger in Northern Europe. Ancestry from more developed countries suggests a stronger transmission of trust, but …

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Social Capital and Health: Evidence That Ancestral Trust Promotes Health among Children of Immigrants

Ljunge, Martin - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This paper presents evidence that generalized trust promotes health. Children of immigrants in a broad set of European … in trust across countries of ancestry. There is a significant positive estimate of ancestral trust in explaining …. Individuals with higher ancestral trust are also less likely to be hampered by health problems in their daily life, providing …

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Raising Children to Work Hard: Altruism, Work Norms and Social Insurance.

Lindbeck, A.; Nyberg, S. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001

Children who can count on support from altruistic parents may not try hard to succeed in the labor market. Moreover, parental altruism makes withdrawal of such support non-credible. To promote work effort, parents may want to instill norms which later cause their children to experience guilt or...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Helene - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...

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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution

Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011

In recent decades immigration of workers and refugees to Europe has increased substantially, and the composition of the population in many countries has consequently become much more heterogeneous in terms of ethnic background. If people exhibit in-group bias in the sense of being more...

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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

Does the average level of sickness absence in a neighborhood affect individual sickness absence through social interaction on the neighborhood level? To answer this question, we consider evidence of local benefit-dependency cultures. Well-known methodological problems in this type of analysis...

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Sickness Absence and Local Benefit Cultures

Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

In many countries, sickness absence financed by generous insurance benefits is an important concern in the policy debate. There are strong variations in absence behavior among local geographical areas. Such variations are difficult to explain in terms of observable socioeconomic factors. In this...

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Legitimacy and the Cost of Government

Berggren, Niclas; Bjørnskov, Christian; Lipka, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

While previous research documents a negative relationship between government size and economic growth, suggesting an economic cost of big government, a given government size generally affects growth differently in different countries. As a possible explanation of this differential effect, we...

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