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The European Social Model: Lessons for Developing Countries

Lindbeck, Assar - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

Developing countries, in particular the least developed ones, probably have more to learn from social policies in Europe during the early 20th century than from the elaborate welfare-state arrangements after World War II. In addition to macroeconomic growth and stability, the main ambitions...

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Richer (and Holier) Than Thou? The Effect of Relative Income Improvements on Demand for Redistribution

Karadja, Mounir; Möllerström, Johanna; Seim, David - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

effects on preferences for redistribution of correcting faulty beliefs. We implement a tailor-made survey in Sweden and … income position. Respondents who learn that they are richer than they thought demand less redistribution and increase their … altruism or moral values about redistribution. Moreover, the effect can be reconciled by people with political preferences to …

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Topping up and the Political Support for Social Insurance

Bergh, Andreas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

This paper analyzes how the possibility to complement social income insurance schemes with private insurance affects the political support for social insurance. It is shown that political support for social insurance is weakly decreasing in the replacement rate. Policy makers seeking to maintain...

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Redistribution, Occupational Choice and Intergenerational Mobility: Does Wage Equality Nail the Cobbler to His Last?

Sjögren, Anna - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000

income redistribution on mobility and talent allocation. It is found that a redistributive welfare system either reduces …

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Identity and Redistribution

Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

This paper models the interaction between individuals' identity choices and redistribution. Both redistributive polices …, redistribution is highest when society is ethnically homogenous, but the effect of ethnic diversity on redistribution is not …

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Ethnic Diversity and Civil War

Tangerås, Thomas P.; Lagerlöf, Nils-Petter - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2002

exists a pacific equilibrium path sustained by redistribution from the ruling group to the out-of-power groups. …

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Social Norms and Welfare State Dynamics

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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The European Unemployment Dilemma

Ljungqvist, Lars; Sargent, Thomas J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

Post World War II European welfare states experienced several decades of relatively low unemployment, followed by a plague of persistently high unemployment since the 1980s. We impute the higher unemployment to welfare states' diminished ability to cope with more turbulent economic times, such...

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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–2006

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...

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Taxation and Entrepreneurship in a Welfare State

Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

Does tax policy affect the rate of self-employment in a modern welfare state? This question is analyzed empirically based on Swedish data for the entire post-war period. Available tax data indicate that payroll taxes have had a negative influence on the unincorporated rate of self-employment,...

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