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Gächter, Simone; Nosenzo, Daniele; Sefton, Martin - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 114 (2012) 4, pp. 1346-1367

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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States

West, Martin R. - 2016

education spending and teacher salaries falls sharply when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment … effects vary by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary … countries could explain Germans' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between different categories of …

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Equal pay for equal work? : Evidence from Sweden and a comparison with Norway and the US

Milgrom, Eva M. Meyersson; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, … - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 103 (2001) 4, pp. 559-583

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Rising earnings inequality in Sweden : the role of composition and prices

Domeij, David - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 110 (2008) 3, pp. 609-634

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A comparison of intergenerational mobility curves in Germany, Norway, Sweden, and the US

Bratberg, Espen; Davis, Jonathan; Mazumder, Bhashkar; … - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 119 (2017) 1, pp. 72-101

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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism

Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James Alan - 2014

Thomas Piketty's (2014) book, Capital in the 21st Century, follows in the tradition of the great classical economists, like Marx and Ricardo, in formulating general laws of capitalism to diagnose and predict the dynamics of inequality. We argue that general economic laws are unhelpful as a guide...

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Does Management Matter in Schools

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the...

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Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration : Evidence from US Cities and Swedish Towns, 1732-1860

Crucini, Mario J. - 2014

We study the role of distance and time in statistically explaining price dispersion for 14 commodities from 1732 to 1860. The prices are reported for US cities and Swedish market towns, so we can compare international and intranational dispersion. Distance and commodity-specific fixed effects...

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Practical Monetary Policy : Examples from Sweden and the United States

Svensson, Lars E.O. - 2012

In the summer of 2010, the Federal Reserve's and the Swedish Riksbank's inflation forecasts were below the former's mandate-consistent rate and the latter's target, respectively, and their unemployment forecasts were above sustainable rates. Given the mandates of the Federal Reserve and the...

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Welfare and Generational Equity in Sustainable Unfunded Pension Systems

Auerbach, Alan J. - 2009

We evaluate several actual and hypothetical sustainable PAYGO pension structures, including: (1) versions of the US Social Security system with annual adjustments of taxes or benefits to maintain fiscal balance; (2) Sweden's Notional Defined Contribution system and several variants developed to...

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