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Earnings Dynamics and Inequality during Macroeconomic Turbulence: Sweden 1991-1999
Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2002
Using a rich longitudinal database, I study the dynamics behind changes in the distribution of annual earnings in Sweden 1991 to 1999. The analysis indicates a systematic increase in persistent earnings differentials during the 1990s; workers with low relative earnings in the beginning of the...
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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...
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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...
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Swimming With the Tide: Solidarity Wage Policy and the Gender Earnings Gap
Edin, Per-Anders; Richardson, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender … mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender …
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Unemployment and Subsequent Wages: Does Gender Matter?.
Wiklund, F. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669549
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Inheritance Taxation in Sweden, 1885–2004: The Role of Ideology, Family Firms and Tax Avoidance
Henrekson, Magnus; Waldenström, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2014
This paper studies the evolution of the modern Swedish inheritance taxation from its introduction in 1885 to its abolishment in 2004. Our contribution is twofold. First, we compute annual effective inheritance tax rates for differently sized bequests and different types of inherited assets...
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Transmission of Human Capital across Four Generations: Intergenerational Correlations and a Test of the Becker-Tomes Model
Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten; Sandgren Massih, Sofia; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
Most previous studies on intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations - between the parent and the child generation. In this paper we investigate if there is an independent effect of the grandparent and the great grandparent generations in this process. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399690
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Transmission of Human Capital across Four Generations: Intergenerational Correlations and a Test of the Becker-Tomes Model
Lindahl, Mikael; Palme, Mårten; Sandgren Massih, Sofia; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
Most previous studies on intergenerational transmission of human capital are restricted to two generations - between the parent and the child generation. In this paper we investigate if there is an independent effect of the grandparent and the great grandparent generations in this process. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399697
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Who is at the top? Wealth mobility over the life cycle
Hochguertel, Stefan; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Who is wealthy? This paper presents empirical estimates of household movements into and out of the top percents of the wealth distribution over individual life cycles. There are life-cycle motives and precautionary motives for wealth accumulation. The opportunities to accumulate wealth create...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416200
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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 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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