Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …

between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful ?omnibus measure? of the overall impact of family and … somewhat sensitive to some assumptions that have to be made, we conclude that the family and community factors are more …

This paper tests whether being convicted of a crime affects marriage market outcomes. While it is relatively well … documented that crime hurts in terms of reduced future income, there has been little systematic analysis on the association … between crime and marriage market outcomes. This paper exploits a detailed Danish register-based data set to fill this gap in …

Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … Norway have an immigrant origin, and that corresponding proportion is as high as about a half in Denmark as well as in Sweden …

. 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 …

We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US … family earnings, on the other hand, leads to estimates of intergenerational mobility in the Nordic countries which exceed …

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 …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …