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Profit Testing of Profit Sharing Life Insurance Policies in the Presence of Extreme Risks
Le Courtois, Olivier; Shen, Li - 2023
This paper examines the profit testing of life insurance companies that issue participating policies, type B and type A … stochastic and modeled by normal or variance gamma distributions. We rely on the stochastic profit testing techniques introduced … the profit testing indicators. We show that the variance gamma model results in more conservative predictions - in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356168
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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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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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Credit Union Policies and Performances in Latin America
Westley, Glenn; Shaffer, Sherrill - 1997
developing countries. It also offers an empirical estimation for a unique sample of Latin American CUs. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327024
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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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Proxying ability by family background in returns to schooling estimations is generally a bad idea
Mellander, Erik; Sandgren-Massih, Sofia - 2008
A regression model is considered where earnings are explained by schooling and ability. It is assumed that schooling is measured with error and that there are no data on ability. Regressing earnings on observed schooling then yields an estimate of the return to schooling that is subject to...
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Estimating dynamic income responses to tax reforms: Swedish evidence
Holmlund, Bertil; Söderström, Martin - 2008
We study income responses to income tax changes by using a large panel of Swedish tax payers over the period 1991-2002. Changes in statutory tax rates as well as dis-cretionary changes in tax bracket thresholds provide exogenous variations in tax rates that can be used to identify income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273953
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Social stratification and out-of-school learning
Andersson, Christian; Johansson, Per - 2009
To study effects of out-of-school learning we use data on boarding home pupils who attended elementary public schools in the 1940's. The out-of-school environment at the boarding homes could be considered being more learner friendly than the home environment on average: the pupils at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273957