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Swedish Pension Reforms in the 1990s

Klevmarken, N. Anders - 2002

Many Western countries with an aging population consider reforms of their pay-as-you-go pension systems. In Sweden a new pension system has already been decided and implemented. This paper gives a brief background to the Swedish reforms in the 1990s and explains the structure of the new system.

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Retirement patterns during the Swedish pension fund

Glans, Erik - 2008

The Swedish pension reform of 1999-2003 provides an opportunity to study whether and how important economic incentives are for the timing of retirement. The new pension system provides a much closer link between contributions and benefits than the former system. I study whether the reform has...

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Unpaid work and the economy: Linkages and their implications

Hirway, Indira - 2015

Unpaid work, which falls outside of the national income accounts but within the general production boundary, is viewed as either "care" or as "work" by experts. This work is almost always unequally distributed between men and women, and if one includes both paid and unpaid work, women carry much...

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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands

Gautier, Pieter A.; van der Klaauw, Bas - 2009

In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor … the relevant labor market in-stitutions in the Netherlands and use recent reforms to assess the importance of the … positive effects of active labor market programs (which are frequently offered in the Netherlands). …

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Becoming an entrepreneur

Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - 2007

Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a differencein-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates...

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Causal effect of income on health: Investigating two closely related policy reforms in Austria

Schnalzenberger, Mario - 2011

I investigate the effect of income on mortality of the pensioners, com- paring three subsequent policy periods in Austria. The pensioners who retired in the second period received 25% lower pension than those in the first period. This reduction in income was removed in the third policy period....

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Political economy and pensions in ageing societies – a note on how an "impossible" reform was implemented in Sweden

Kruse, Agneta - 2005

Ageing puts a strain on most countries' pension systems; forecasts show them to be more or less unsustainable. Evidence from social choice research, theoretical as well as empirical, does not seem to offer a way out of the dilemma, as the median voter will resist a reform. Despite this, Sweden...

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The decline of the labor share: New empirical evidence

Bergholt, Drago; Furlanetto, Francesco; Faccioli, … - 2019

We estimate a structural vector autoregressive model in order to quantify four main explanations for the decline of the US labor income share: (i) rising market power of firms, (ii) falling market power of workers, (iii) higher investmentspecific technology growth, and (iv) the widespread...

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Matching frictions, efficiency wages, and unemployment in the USA and the UK

Malcomson, James M.; Mavroeidis, Sophocles - 2007

This paper combines matching frictions with e¢ ciency wages to deter shirking in a model that is estimated for the USA and the UK to derive the underlying structural parameters. Methods robust to weak instruments are used to show that, for both countries, both matching frictions and efficiency...

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Long-run inflation-unemployment dynamics: The Spanish Phillips curve and economic policy

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Héctor; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

This paper takes a new look at the long-run dynamics of inflation and unemployment in response to permanent changes in the growth rate of the money supply. We examine the Phillips curve from the perspective of what we call "frictional growth," i.e. the interaction between money growth and...

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