the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden. Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

Sweden is one of the largest among the OECD countries. In this study, we use unique Swedish register data to try to explain … the employment gap between male immigrants and natives. The results show that the traditional human capital theory only …

Three decades ago, Sweden extended municipal and county voting privileges to non-citizen residents arguing that it … native citizens in Sweden while controlling for a range of socio-economic, demographic characteristics and contextual factors … Statistics Sweden which contains socio-demographic information for every Swedish resident. From these two sources, we are able to …