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The future of welfare services : how worried should we be about Wagner, Baumol and Ageing?

Bergh, Andreas - 2016

Welfare services are an important part of the Nordic welfare states both financially and for welfare state redistribution. Baumol's cost disease, Wagner's law, and population ageing are often said to bring challenges for the future provision of welfare services. While none of the three poses an...

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Origins and resolution of financial crises : lessons from the current and Northern European crises

Ostrup, Finn; Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas - 2009

Since July 2007 the world economy has experienced a severe financial crisis originating in the U.S. housing market. The crisis has subsequently spread to the financial sectors in European and Asian economies and led to a severe worldwide recession. The existing literature on financial crises...

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Intergenerational top income mobility in Sweden : capitalist dynasties in the land of equal opportunity?

Björklund, Anders (contributor); Roine, Jesper (contributor) - 2008

. Using a large dataset of matched father-son pairs in Sweden we are able to obtain results for fractions as small as 0 … top percentile of the population. Our results suggest that Sweden, well-known for its egalitarian achievements, is a …

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Wealth concentration over the path of development: Sweden, 1873-2005

Roine, Jesper (contributor); … - 2007

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Taxation and entrepreneurship in a welfare state

Stenkula, Mikael - 2009

Does tax policy affect the rate of self-employment in a modern welfare state? This question is analyzed empirically based on Swedish data for the entire post-war period. Available tax data indicate that payroll taxes have had a negative influence on the unincorporated rate of self-employment,...

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The rise, fall and revival of the Swedish 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 …

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Wealth-income ratios in a small, developing economy : Sweden, 1810-2014

Waldenström, Daniel - 2016

both similarities and differences. During the industrialization era, Sweden's domestic wealth was relatively low because of … similar, but in Sweden government wealth grew more important, not least through its relatively large public pension system …

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