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The Long-run Determinants of Inequality: What Can We Learn from Top Income Data?
Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100), the upper middle class (P90-99), and the rest of the population (P0-90). The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771087
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979442
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903–2004. We find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645425
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Long-Run Trends in the Distribution of Income and Wealth
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
This paper reviews the long run developments in the distribution of personal income and wealth. It also discusses suggested explanations for the observed patterns. We try to answer questions such as: What do we know, and how do we know, about the distribution of income and wealth over time? Are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103287
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Globalization and the Transmission of Social Values: The Case of Tolerance
Berggren, Niclas; Nilsson, Therese - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Tolerance – respecting those who are different – is arguably of particular importance in an era of globalization, where a potential for economic, social and personal development is increasingly a function of interaction with others different from oneself. We investigate whether globalization...
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An Equilibrium Model of Search Unemployment
Albrecht, James W; Axell, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1983
distribution is endogenously determined. We use this model to analyze the comparative statics effects of increases in unemployment … compensation on the unemployment rate and aggregate welfare taking into account the induced change in the wage offer distribution … a selective increase in unemployment compensation, made available to those who impute a relatively low value to leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684408
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Arbetslöshetsersättningen i Sverige: Motiv, regler och effekter
Björklund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818370
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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 … search model where workers accumulate skills on the job and lose skills during unemployment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207056
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General Search Market Equilibrium
Albrecht, James W.; Axell, Bo - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1982
In this paper we extend models of “search market equilibrium” to incorporate general equilibrium considerations. The model we treat is one with a single product market and a single labor market. Imperfectly informed individuals follow optimal strategies in searching for a suitably low price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019047
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ICT and Household-Firm Relations
Lindbeck, Assar; Wikström, Solveig - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1999
This paper discusses how ICT and emerging electronic commerce in consumer products influence the relative efficiency in production of households and firms, resulting in changes in the division of tasks between these two types of agents. Increased information and competence of households, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005082491