ending of sickness spells. The 1991 reform, which reduced the replacement rate, had a stronger effect on reducing the … duration of short-term absences than the 1987 reform, which restricted the payment of sickness cash benefit to only scheduled …

economic and political factors to policy of reform implemented by the social -democratic government in Sweden during the 1930's …

. As an application the model is used to evaluate the recent Swedish “make work pay” reform, effective from 2007 and … further reinforced in 2008 and 2009. The key characteristic of this reform is an in-work tax credit and decreased state tax … income inequality. However, even considering the increase in hours of work, the reform is far from being self-financed.<p> …