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We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to …
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Realized capital gains are typically disregarded in the study of income inequality. We show that in the case of Sweden … surge in capital gains-driven inequality in Sweden since the 1980s. While there are no evident changes in terms of who earns … price increases on the post-1980 deregulated financial markets. …
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This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on life-cycle patterns in the asset allocation of Swedish households. Data on household portfolio allocation are collected from the HINK surveys for the period 1982-1992, and portfolio shares of different asset categories are regressed on age, period, and...
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identification strategy to estimate the effect of the price of gasoline on consumer demand for fuel economy. We control for … unobserved vehicle and consumer characteristics by using within model-year changes in the price of gasoline and vehicle sales. We … due to the increase in the price of gasoline. On the other hand, an increase in the gasoline tax would only modestly …
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dimensions of a product. We then test our procedure by analyzing the behavior of buyers from an Austrian price comparison site …. Although in such a market a consumer will typically search for the cheapest price for a given product, reliability and service … procedure: they select a shortlist of suppliers by using the price variable only; finally, they trade off reliability and price …
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the last-click- through concept). We use a large representative data set obtained from a price-comparison site which …
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This paper fills a void in the issue of determinants of privatization prices by concentrating in one industry across many countries. This has not been done before, as the literature has only focused on (i) many industries in one country, (ii) a single industry in one country, and (iii) many...
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This paper studies the link between the political and institutional context and privatization sales prices. The latter serves as a measure for assessing the relative performance of the privatization goals. Whereas this link has been studied theoretically, there are very few, if any, empirical...
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This paper develops data on the history of wages and prices in Beijing, Canton, Suzhou/Shanghai in China from the eighteenth century to the twentieth and compare them with leading cities in Europe, Japan and India in terms of nominal wages, the cost of living, and the standard of living. In the...
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