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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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economic development for five industrialized European countries: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Italy. In …
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variance in the real exchange rate for Finland and Sweden. … long run movements in the real exchange rate for Denmark and Norway, while demand shocks account for most of the long run …
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, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of … objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …
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The purpose of this report is to derive lessons from inflation targeting in Sweden for the choice of the future … monetary policy regime of Iceland. Swedish inflation targeting has been a success in terms of reducing inflation and inflation … integration. In other words, the Riksbank has behaved as if Sweden had a fixed exchange rate to the euro. Our analysis clearly …
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Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require time and other resources and reflect the accumulated priorities of individuals and couples. We explore how these outcomes have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by...
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According to Cattell’s (1987) Investment theory individual differences in acquisition of knowledge and skills are partly the result of investment of Fluid Intelligence (Gf) in learning situations demanding insights in complex relations. If this theory holds true Gf will be a factor of General...
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. Tax rate and public expenditures are the focal policy outcomes in this study. To capture the causal mechanism, Swedish and … 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 …
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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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