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Employment Protection and Sickness Absence
Olsson, Martin - 2007
An exemption in the Swedish Employment Security Act (LAS) in 2001 made it possible for employers with a maximum of ten employees to exempt two workers from the seniority rule at times of redundancies. Using this within-country enforcement variation, the relationship between employment protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222966
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Social Interaction and Sickness Absence
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2007
Sweden, we adopt several different approaches to deal with these problems. The results are robust in the sense that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320132
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Employment Protection and Sickness Absence
Olsson, Martin - 2007
An exemption in the Swedish Employment Security Act (LAS) in 2001 made it possible for employers with a maximum of ten employees to exempt two workers from the seniority rule at times of redundancies. Using this within-country enforcement variation, the relationship between employment protection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320033
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Job Security and Work Absence: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Lindbeck, Assar; Palme, Mårten; Persson, Mats - 2006
in Sweden in 2001. According to our differences-in-difference estimates, aggregate absence in these firms fell by 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320088
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A Continuous Theory of Income Insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2010
In this paper we treat an individual's health as a continuous variable, in contrast to the traditional literature on income insurance, where it is regularly treated as a binary variable. This is not a minor technical matter; in fact, a continuous treatment of an individual's health sheds new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320225
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A Continuous Model of Income Insurance
Lindbeck, Assar; Persson, Mats - 2008
We develop a simple yet realistic model of income insurance, where the individual's ability and willingness to work is treated as a continuous variable. In this framework, income insurance not only provides income smoothing, it also relieves the individual from particularly burdensome work. As a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320311
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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2006
This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903-2004. We find that …. When included, Sweden's experience resembles that in the U.S. and the U.K. with sharp increases in top incomes. Excluding … capital gains, Sweden looks more like the continental European countries where top income shares have remained relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320074
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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–-2006
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2007
We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320172
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On the Role of Capital Gains in Swedish Income Inequality
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2011
Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … surge in capital gains-driven inequality in Sweden since the 1980s. While there are no evident changes in terms of who earns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320194
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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - 2012
We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden … over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320218