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The Rise, Fall and Revival of a Capitalist Welfare State: What are the Policy Lessons from Sweden
Bergh, Andreas - 2011
This paper discusses a number of questions with regard to Sweden's economic and political development: How did Sweden … become rich? What explains Sweden's high level of income equality? What were the causes of Sweden's problems from 1970 to … 1995? How is it possible that Sweden, since the crisis of the early 1990s, is growing faster than most EU countries despite …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320373
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Public Sector Size and Corruption : Evidence from 290 Swedish Municipalities
Bergh, Andreas - 2012
In this paper, we use data from a corruption survey conducted among top politicians and high level civil servants in 290 Swedish municipalities in 2007 to investigate the effects of government size on corruption. We construct several measures of corruption based on the survey, and combine these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097642
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What Happens When Municipalities Run Corporations? Empirical Evidence From 290 Swedish Municipalities
Bergh, Andreas - 2020
paper addresses the competing views by studying Sweden, a country with a dramatic growth in the number of MOCs since the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823938
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Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Labor Market Gaps between Immigrants and Natives in the OECD
Bergh, Andreas - 2014
In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine potential explanations of these gaps. Results are obtained for 21-28 countries using bivariate correlations, OLS-regressions and Bayesian model averaging over all 512...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049138