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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations
Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771040
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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality during Macroeconomic Turbulence: Sweden 1991-1999
Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002
studied. The results indicate that increased persistent wage inequality is one source behind the increase in persistent … earnings inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644531
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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation - the role of workplaces and occupations
Eliasson, Tove - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013
This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690434
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Inequality and Trust: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others
Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2006
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190452
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Inequality and Crime: Separating the Effects of Permanent and Transitory Income
Dahlberg, Matz; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2005
Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … is therefore to disentangle the two effects by, first, estimating region-specific inequality in permanent and transitory … indicate that it is important to separate the two effects; while an increase in the inequality in permanent income yields a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644540
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Tax Reform Evaluation Using Nonparametric Methods: Sweden 1980 - 1991
Blomquist, Sören; Eklöf, Matias; Newey, Whitney - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1997
This paper evaluates the tax reforms carried out in Sweden between 1980 and 1991. We use a recently developed nonparametric labor supply function to account for the behavorial responses of the taxed individuals. We decompose the tax reform to study how the separate components influence hours of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644619
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Changes in Educational Wage Premiums in Sweden: 1992-2001
Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2004
This paper investigates changes in educational wage differentials in Sweden between 1992 and 2001 and places them in a longer-term perspective. The university wage premium has increased noticeably between 1992 and 2001 while the gymnasium wage premium has been constant. These results, together...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419182
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Permanent versus Transitory Wage Differentials and the Inequality-Hours Hypothesis
Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013
This paper disentangles the effect of inequality in permanent and transitory wages on hours worked by, first … hours-worked equation. Consistent with Bell and Freeman’s (2001) inequality-hours hypothesis, permanent wage differentials …. However, the analysis also shows that, in estimated hours-worked equations, inequality in observed wages is potentially a good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010702044
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Economic incentives and the timing of births: Evidence from the German parental benefit reform 2007
Ohlsson, Henry; Neugart, Michael - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2009
Economic theory suggests that incentives matter for people's decisions. This paper investigates whether this also holds for less self-evident areas of life such as the timing of births. We make use of a nautral experiment when the German government changed its parental benefit system January 1,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506824
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Income receipt and mortality - Evidence from Swedish public sector employees
Andersson, Elvira; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
In this paper, we study the short-run effect of salary receipt on mortality among Swedish public sector employees. By using data on variation in pay-days across work-places, we completely control for mortality patterns related to, for example, public holidays and other special days or events...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945095