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Generating Equality and Eliminating Poverty, the Swedish Way
Bjorklund, Anders; Freeman, Richard B. - 2022
Sweden has a remarkable record in reducing inequality and virtually eliminating poverty. This paper shows that: 1 …) Sweden achieved its egalitarian income distribution and eliminated poverty largely because of its system of earnings and … Sweden is distinguished by a relatively egalitarian distribution of hours of work among those employed, which may be an …
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Public Employment, Taxes and the Welfare State in Sweden
Rosen, Sherwin - 2021
All employment growth in Sweden since the early 1960's is attributable to labor market entry of women, working in local … public sector jobs that implement the Welfare State. Sweden has 'monetized' or 'nationalized' the family. Women are paid at … goods sector. Efficiency distortions of current child policies in Sweden may be as large as half of total expenditures on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243939
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Resisting Migration : The Problems of Wage Rigidity and the Social Burden
Razin, Assaf; Sadka, Efraim - 2021
Just like any trade activity in well-functioning markets, migration tends to enhance the efficiency of the allocation of resources. With non-distortionary income distribution policy instruments which can compensate losers, migration generates income gains. But the gains tend to be typically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313306
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Can't We All Be More Like Scandinavians? Asymmetric Growth and Institutions in an Interdependent World
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012
Because of their more limited inequality and more comprehensive social welfare systems, many perceive average welfare to be higher in Scandinavian societies than in the United States. Why then does the United States not adopt Scandinavian-style institutions? More generally, in an interdependent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099537
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The Glass Ceiling and the Paper Floor : Gender Differences Among Top Earners, 1981-2012
Guvenen, Fatih - 2014
We analyze changes in the gender structure at the top of the earnings distribution in the United States over the last 30 years using a 10% sample of individual earnings histories from the Social Security Administration. Despite making large inroads, females still constitute a small proportion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046156
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Tax Reform Evaluation Using Nonparametric Methods : Sweden 1980 - 1991
Blomquist, Soren; Eklof, Matias; Newey, Whitney K. - 2021
This paper evaluates the tax reforms carried out in Sweden between 1980 and 1991. We use a recently developed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013222905
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The Welfare State and Competitiveness
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2010
In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two- country model with exportables, importables and nontradables to study redistribution across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138851
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Fiscal and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2010
It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a "race to the bottom". Such a race may hold indeed in the case of the pure case of factor mobility (such as capital mobility). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139888
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The Welfare State and the Forces of Globalization
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2007
The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has reduced the equilibrium price of labor in western Europe and elsewhere. However, the actual price of labor hardly reacts, because the welfare state's minimum replacement incomes are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777456
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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2019
We examine the relationship between immigration and attitudes toward redistribution using a newly assembled data set of immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of immigrants at the regional level, we find that native...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892564