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An Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of the Welfare State : The Case of Benefit Morale
Halla, Martin - 2009
Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776075
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990866
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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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Earnings Losses and the Role of the Welfare State During the COVID-19 Pandemic : Evidence from Sweden
Adermon, Adrian; Laun, Lisa; Lind, Patrik; Olsson, Martin; … - 2022
losses during the pandemic in Sweden using a difference-in-differences approach and population-wide data on monthly earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014238586
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324813
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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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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016203
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The Distributional Impact of Public Services When Needs Differ
Aaberge, Rolf - 2010
Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146472