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Fölster, Stefan; Gidehag, Robert; Orszag, Jonathan Michael - 2002

The paper examines the possible effects of introducing a large-scale welfare reform in Sweden, namely, the introduction …

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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion

Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2014

Most conceptualisations of the bottom billion assume that "the poor" are a minority group in a state of continuous dependency, identifiable by region and demographic. Using a flow analysis (inflow and outflow) of poverty, rather than a stock analysis, we explain why poverty is more appropriately...

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Social Protection beyond the Bottom Billion

Murphy, Susan; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security

Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - 2008

In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...

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Disability in the welfare state: An unemployment problem in disguise?

Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - 2010

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements and closure data collected from bankruptcy...

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Gender Differences in Sickness Absence and the Gender Division of Family Responsibilities

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013

This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...

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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

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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The financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …

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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

This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … of present-day Sweden: the dual earner system. …

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

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

metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …

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