This paper analyzes the persistence of poverty in Sweden using a hazard rate model based on multiple spells. The model … disposable income obtained from individual tax files. Poverty is defined using information on annual minimum needs standards … determined by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare. The data indicates that poverty rates are highest for immigrants …

elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …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 …

This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … Göteborg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947, 1958 as well as more recent (1983, 1994 and 2003) information. We define poverty as … living in a household with a disposable income lower than a poverty line that represents a constant purchasing power all …

these transitions allows the identification of duration dependence in the job offer arrival rate and the wage offer … likelihood. The results show that the presence of significant negative duration dependence in the wage offer distribution causes … reservation wages to decrease. The rate at which job offers arrive is constant over the unemployment duration. These findings …

negatively selected on unobservables. A beneficial (unemployment-duration reducing) causal effect of internet job search is …

The paper proposes two estimation approaches for duration models that are subject to right censored observations and … selection effects. Main focus is on accelerated duration models and the estimators that are of the limited information type, i …

differ from natives', and if so, how the difference vary with time spent in Sweden and across immigrant cohorts. A unique …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much …. Regression analysis shows that high neighbourhood poverty rates are mainly due to parents' low employment and to low parental …

role. We also find four types of poverty traps, associated with large initial household size, poor initial education, poor …

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …