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Real and Nominal Wage Adjustment in Open Economies

Forslund, Anders - 2013

How are wages set in an open economy? What role is played by demand pressure, international competition, and structural factors in the labour market? How important is nominal wage rigidity and exchange rate policy for the evolution of real wages and competitiveness? To answer these questions, we...

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Taxing Mobile Capital and Profits : The Nordic Welfare States

Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2015

This paper discusses trends in capital taxation and the role of the corporate tax rate in a welfare state. It provides a summary of the tax competition literature with special application to capital taxation in small versus large countries. A main finding from this literature is that small...

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The Efficiency of Educational Production : A Comparison of the Nordic Countries with Other OECD Countries

Bogetoft, Peter - 2015

Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the relatively high level of expenditure on education in the Nordic countries is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of student enrolment and indicators of output quality in the form of...

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The Scandinavian Model - Prospects and Challenges

Andersen, Torben M. - 2007

Scandinavian countries are often portrayed in policy debates as model examples having shown how to square concerns for efficiency and equity. The core principle of the Scandinavian welfare model is an individual entitlement to public sector provisions combined with collective financing via...

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Banking Crisis Resolution Policy - Lessons from Recent Experience - Which Elements are Needed for Robust and Efficient Crisis Resolution?

Mayes, David G. - 2013

The current financial crisis has sparked intense debate about how weak banks should be resolved. Despite international efforts to coordinate and converge on such policies, national policy advice and resolution practices differ. The resolution methods adopted in the Nordic banking crises in the...

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Clash of Career and Family : Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement

Bono, Emilia Del - 2014

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

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Did the Black Death Cause Economic Development by 'Inventing' Fertility Restriction?

Edwards, Jeremy - 2018

unmarried women, thereby delaying female marriage, lowering fertility, and unleashing economic growth. We show that this …

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Malthus in the Bedroom : Birth Spacing as Birth Control in Pre-Transition England

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016

We use duration models on a well-known historical dataset of more than 15,000 families and 60,000 births in England for the period 1540–1850 to show that the sampled families adjusted the timing of their births in accordance with the economic conditions as well as their stock of dependent...

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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education …

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Sending the Pork Home : Birth Town Bias in Transfers to Italian Municipalities

Carozzi, Felipe - 2015

We ask whether the birthplaces of Italian members of Parliament are favoured in the allocation of central government transfers. Using a panel of municipalities for the years between 1994 and 2006, we find that municipal governments of legislators' birth towns receive larger transfers per capita....

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