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spread of COVID-19 at the onset of the pandemic: While Denmark, Finland and Norway imposed strict measures (‘lockdowns …’), Sweden decided for much lighter restrictions. Empirically, we use novel administrative data on weekly new unemployment and … furlough spells from all 56 regions of the Nordic countries to compare the labor market outcomes of Sweden with the ones of its …
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Voluntary public unemployment systems are limited to a handful of countries, including Finland, Sweden, and, more … substantially, Denmark. A voluntary system has the positive feature of other user-cost schemes, potentially efficient targeting of …
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There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics in order to...
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-occupied Denmark and Denmark's 1849 constitution which served, with notable exceptions, as the prototype for Iceland’s 1944 …This paper reviews aspects of the constitution making process in Iceland after the financial collapse of 2008 …, emphasizing the differences between the provisional constitution of 1944 when Iceland separated unilaterally from Nazi …
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In this paper, we study how high school students reacted to the shocking news of a school shooting. The shooting coincided with national high-school matriculation exams. As there were exams both before and after the shooting, we can use a difference-in-differences analysis to uncover how the...
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this paper is an observation-based analysis conducted by visiting selected paper mills in Finland, the U.S., Germany and … Sweden. I find interesting differences and similarities in the firms’ strategies in terms of how they responded to these …
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The paper asks whether the exercising of the NATO membership option is justified for Finland and Sweden in the light of …. The Turkish intervention in the membership process after the membership applications of Finland and Sweden were delivered … towards the membership. In both countries, the majority of people turned to favor the membership within 2-3 months. Finland …
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players moved early. Interest rates did not increase in Sweden so there was little to gain by a delayed attack. -- Speculative …
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We examine the impact of a policy reform that gave employees in a municipality extended rights to self-declare sickness absence. To identify the effect of bypassing the physician as an absence certifier we contrast the development of absence in the reform municipality with absence in similar...
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This study examines how the impact of Tradable Green Certificates (TGC) on profitability and investment behavior varies depending on the vertical integration status of regulated firms. Our theoretical model predicts that vertical integration does not lead to higher profits when internal pricing...
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