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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014436995
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014421225
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471148
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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
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Education for Growth in Sweden and the World
Krueger, Alan B. - 1999
determinant of income for individuals within countries as diverse as Sweden and the United States. At a national level, however … growth among OECD countries. The conclusion comments on policy implications for Sweden based on the human capital literature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471598
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How Trade Patterns and Technology Flows Affect Productivity Growth
Keller, Wolfgang - 1999
This paper examines the evidence on technology diffusion through trade in differentiated intermediate goods. Because intermediates are invented through costly research and development (R&D) investments, employing imported intermediates implies an implicit sharing of the technology that was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471810
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The Effects of Class Size and Composition on Student Achievement : New Evidence from Natural Population Variation
Hoxby, Caroline M. - 1998
I use natural population variation to identify the effects of class size and composition on student achievement. I isolate the credibly random component of population variation in each grade and school district and use this component to generate instrumental variables for class size and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471943