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Prices on the Second-Hand Market for Swedish Family Houses -Correlation, Causation and Determinants.

Berg, L. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000

The structural differences and the dynamics in prices on the second-hand market for family houses in large (Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo), medium-sized, small and industrial cities and sparsely populated areas are analysed in this paper. The basic house price data set used in the analysis...

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Monetary Policy and Swedish Unemployment Fluctuations

Alexius, Annika; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007

such as unemployment. Previous studies indicate that monetary policy affects the output gap only at business cycle … frequencies, but the effects on unemployment may well be more persistent in countries with highly regulated labor markets. We … study the Swedish experience of unemployment and monetary policy. Using a structural VAR we find that around 30 percent of …

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The effect of changes in the replacement rate on partial retirement in Sweden

Glans, Erik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008

Knowledge about how elderly workers react to changes in pension benefits is important in guiding the design of social security systems. This paper contributes to this knowledge by examining the effect of changed replacement rates on part-time retirement behaviour in Sweden. During the 1980s,...

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Retirement patterns during the Swedish pension reform

Glans, Erik - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2008

The Swedish pension reform of 1999-2003 provides an opportunity to study whether and how important economic incentives are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits than the former system. I study whether the reform has...

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Instead of Bowling Alone? Unretirement of Old-Age Pensioners

Pettersson, Jan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

We study re-entry to the workforce of fully retired persons, so-called unretirement, and whether the decision to resume work depends primarily on social or economic reasons. Using Swedish register data for already retired individuals older than 55, we find unretirement to vary between 6 and 14...

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For some mothers more than others: how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...

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Labour Supply Responses to Paid Parental Leave

Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...

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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?

Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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For some mothers more than others: how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low

Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012

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Tax Policy and Employment: How Does the Swedish System Fare?

Pirttälä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

This paper reviews the literature on optimal taxation of labour income and the empirical work on labour supply and the elasticity of taxable income in Sweden. It also presents an overview of Swedish taxation of labour income, offers calculations on the development in effective marginal tax rates...

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