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Topping up and the political support for social insurance
Bergh, Andreas - 2013
This paper analyzes how the possibility to complement social income insurance schemes with private insurance affects the political support for social insurance. It is shown that political support for social insurance is weakly decreasing in the replacement rate. Policy makers seeking to maintain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010223003
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Prospects for the welfare state
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624111
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The welfare state : background, achievements, problems
Lindbeck, Assar (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003290187
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Fairness, flexibility and the far right: understanding the relationship between populism, social spending and labor markets
Bergh, Andreas; Kärnä, Anders - 2021
The large increase in economic inequality and the dismantling of the welfare state in Western democracies has been connected to the rise of populist parties. If populist voting is explained by fear and labor market insecurity and if people care more about procedural fairness than inequality of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012625784
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003770045
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Wealth concentration over the path of development: Sweden, 1873-2005
Roine, Jesper (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003555059
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003843247
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009012602
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586572
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Telemedicine and the welfare state : the Swedish experience
Blix, Mårten; Jeansson, Johanna - 2018
We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011911154