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Poverty Risk Among Older Immigrants in a Scandinavian Welfare State
Jakobsen, Vibeke - 2016
Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries outside the OECD, with main emphasis on immigrants coming as guest workers before 1974, as refugees and as family members and marriage partners – tied movers – relative to...
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In-Work Benefits and the Nordic Model
Kolm, Ann-Sofie - 2013
Welfare benefits in the Nordic countries are often tied to employment. We argue that this is one of the factors behind the success of the Nordic model, where a comprehensive welfare state is associated with high employment. In a general equilibrium setting, the underlining mechanism works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013089009
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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States
Algan, Yann - 2011
This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131158
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Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries : A Model to Aspire to?
Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2006
The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates compared to other western countries. This has been attributed to the fact that the welfare state model and, especially, the family-friendly policies chosen in the Nordic countries...
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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Bjorklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jantti, Markus; … - 2021
between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321281
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Infant Health, Cognitive Performance and Earnings : Evidence from Inception of the Welfare State in Sweden
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2016
We estimate impacts of exposure to an infant health intervention trialled in Sweden in the early 1930s using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979455
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Family Background and Income During the Rise of the Welfare State : Brother Correlations in Income for Swedish Men Born 1932-1968
Bjorklund, Anders - 2007
Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … life chances in Sweden …
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms : The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - 2021
structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318135
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Intergenerational Top Income Mobility in Sweden : A Combination of Equal Opportunity and Capitalistic Dynasties
Björklund, Anders; Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2021
. 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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Sweden's Pensioners : How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride Through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance
Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2021
This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …
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