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Sweden´s Pensioners: How They Have Fared in theRoller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and aHalf of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance

Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

characterized by increased influence from the financial market andextreme economic events - using data from the Household Income …

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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 - 2007

income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has … characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events using data from the Household Income …

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Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Childrenin Sweden´s Three Metropolitan Areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

income based on income of parents... …

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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty

Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009

In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a fair-trade premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This paper...

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If Seebohm Rowntree had studied Sweden: How poverty changed in the city of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003

Gustafsson, Björn; Jansson, Birgitta - 2010

living in a household with a disposable income lower than a poverty line that represents a constant purchasing power all … years, as well as poverty lines defined as 60 percent of contemporary median income. Clear reductions of poverty from 1925 …This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of …

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Inequality, poverty and development : with an application to Fiji

Kanbur, Ravi - 1986

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How serious is the neglect of intra-household inequality?

Haddad, Lawrence James - 1989

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Rank, income and income inequality in urban China

Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2008

of the urban population in work-active ages and use data from the Chinese Income Project (CHIP) covering eastern, central … being employed as a worker of high rank. There is relatively little income inequality among workers of high rank as well as … among workers of middle rank. Mean income and household wealth per capita of highly-ranked workers developed more favorably …

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Economic and ethnic polarisation among children in Sweden's three metropolitan areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2007

study is child income based on income of parents. Inequality in child income 1990, 1996 and 2002 is studied by decomposing …-periods 1990-1996 and 1996-2002. For example, while in the Stockholm region 7 percent of inequality in child income in 1990 was due … to differences in mean income across neighbourhoods, the proportion had increased to as much as 22 percent in 2002 …

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