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Assessing the Incidence and Efficiency of a Prominent Place Based Policy
Busso, Matias - 2010
This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database. To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general...
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Spatial Development
Desmet, Klaus - 2009
We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463301
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Land Use Controls and the Provision of Education
Hanushek, Eric A. - 2012
Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460927
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Retirement Consumption and Pension Design
Kolsrud, Jonas; Landais, Camille; Reck, Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper analyzes consumption to evaluate the distributional effects of pension reforms. Using Swedish administrative data, we show that on average workers who retire earlier consume less while retired and experience larger drops in consumption around retirement. Interpreted via a theoretical...
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Are Swedish House Prices Too High? Why the Price-to-Income Ratio Is a Misleading Indicator
Svensson, Lars E. O. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
For Sweden, the UCTI and PTI indicators are in fact strongly negatively correlated and have opposite signs. If the UCTI … restricted to Sweden but concerns several other countries in the European Union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436993
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Financial Windfalls, Portfolio Allocations, and Risk Preferences
Briggs, Joseph S.; Cesarini, David; Lee, Sean Chanwook; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We investigate the impact of financial windfalls on household portfolio choices and risk exposure. Exploiting the randomized assignment of lottery prizes in three Swedish lotteries, we find a windfall gain of $100K leads to a 5-percentage-point decrease in the risky share of household...
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Deadwood Labor : The Effects of Eliminating Employment Protection
Saez, Emmanuel; Schoefer, Benjamin; Seim, David G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
conducting a comprehensive analysis of the sharp and complete elimination of EPL that occurs at age 67 in Sweden, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421222
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Pension Reform, Incentives to Retire and Retirement Behavior : Empirical Evidence from Swedish Micro-data
Laun, Lisa; Palme, Mårten - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper investigates to what extent the 1998 reform of Sweden's public old-age pension system contributed to the … containing all males and females born in Sweden between 1927 and 1950 and observe their retirement behavior during 1991-2012. The …
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Outward FDI and Parent Exports and Employment : Japan, the United States, and Sweden
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income level. This relationship is similar to that found for...
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Wage-Setting Institutions as Industrial Policy
Davis, Steven J. - 2000
centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … identify the rise and fall of centralized wage-setting arrangements as a major factor in the evolution of Sweden's industry … accounted for about 40 percent of U.S.-Swedish differences in the industry distribution. The dissolution of Sweden's centralized …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471274