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On the role of capital gains in Swedish income inequality
Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321442
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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden
Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter - 2000
This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321802
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Portfolio Allocation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from Swedish Household Data
Andersson, Björn - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321812
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The gender gap in workplace authority in Sweden 1968 - 2000: A family affair?
Bygren, Magnus; Gähler, Michael - 2007
We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317967
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Myopic Loss Aversion, the Equity Premium Puzzle, and GARCH
Ågren, Martin - 2005
This paper concerns the distributional assumptions made on stock returns in the myopic loss aversion (MLA) proposed explanation to the equity premium puzzle. While Benartzi and Thaler (1995) assume temporal independence in these returns, we introduce a more realistic assumption incorporating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321544
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Information asymmetries and the value-relevance of cash flow and accounting figures: empirical analysis and implications for managerial accounting
Rapp, Marc Steffen - 2010
While some of the modern performance measures used in managerial accounting rely on cash flow based figures others try to take advantage of the information content of accounting figures. However, whether the additional information content in the accrual components of earnings improves the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305710
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Voter turnout and the size of government
Aggeborn, Linuz - 2013
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396716
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On the Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: Rent-sharing vs. Social Insurance
Agell, Jonas - 2000
What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321727
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Ethnic enclaves, self-employment and the economic performance of refugees
Andersson, Henrik - 2018
In this paper I estimate the causal effect of ethnic enclaves on the probability of self-employment. To account for neighborhood selection I make use of a refugee dispersal program. Results indicate that larger ethnic enclaves, measured as the share of self-employed coethnics in the municipality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012013514
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Organized interests and foreign-educated professionals: The case of the associations for physicians and nurses in Sweden
Jansson, Olle - 2017
licensed health care professions in Sweden - physicians and nurses - the study investigates if, and how, they try to limit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039271