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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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. 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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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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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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We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To …
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We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using …
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losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a difference-in-differences approach and population-wide data on monthly earnings …
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Since the mid-1990s value added has grown faster in the Swedish business sector than in the business sector of most other OECD countries. We investigate the association between ICT and R&D capital and value added in the Swedish non-farm business sector. By estimating neoclassical production...
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and employment growth that followed the deep economic crisis in Sweden in the early 1990s. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden … had one of the most regulated business sectors in the developed world. In the 1990s, however, Sweden reformed its labour … the Swedish experience by examining factors that appear to be specific to Sweden and others that can be generalized to …
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