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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 …
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Does the supply of a welfare state create its own demand? Many economic scholars studying welfare arrangements refer to Say's law and insinuate a self-destructive welfare state. However, little is known about the empirical validity of these assumptions and hypotheses. We study the dynamic effect...
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This working paper is intended to shed light on a pressing issue: the apparent growth-dependency of European welfare states at a time of weak growth prospects and strong criticisms of growth. Indeed, while the notion of going beyond GDP growth is gaining momentum in the European Union, as...
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The sustainability of the welfare state ultimately depends on citizens' preferences for income redistribution. They are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment performed in 2008 in Switzerland. Attributes are redistribution as GDP share, its uses (the unemployed, old-age pensioners, people...
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For many decades, Ingemar Ståhl was a well-known economist in Sweden. He introduced new perspectives into research …
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Finnish municipal data are used and a constitutional change in Sweden in 1970 is applied as an instrument for voter turnout in … local elections. In 1970, Sweden moved from having separate election days for different levels of government, among other … constitutional reform increased voter turnout in local elections in Sweden. The overall conclusion of this paper is that higher voter …
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We describe the size and timing for comprehensive as well as decomposed measures of unemployment. We then test for and confirm a change in the structural rate of unemployment by finding structural breaks in the Okun and Beveridge relations. Finally, we employ existing empirical models to examine...
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Austria, Finland and Sweden became members of the EU in 1995. This paper examines how support for the euro and trust in …. Support for the euro in the two euro-area members Austria and Finland has remained high and relatively stable since the … in Sweden. Since the start of the crisis, trust in the ECB was strongly influenced by the pronounced increase in …
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This study tests for a migration response to the implementation of stricter rules for welfare benefit receipt, in the form of mandatory participation in activation programs for welfare recipients, in Stockholm town districts. The hypothesis is that welfare benefit prone individuals will choose...
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Sweden and Finland, two coun¬tries that are similar in many respects but in which local elections are held at different …
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