ending of sickness spells. The 1991 reform, which reduced the replacement rate, had a stronger effect on reducing the … duration of short-term absences than the 1987 reform, which restricted the payment of sickness cash benefit to only scheduled …

The effects of a recent Swedish child-care fee reform are compared with those of an alternative reform, increased child … benefits. The fee reform implied considerably decreased fees and was intended to increase both labor supply among parents and … aversion, the alternative reform would have been preferable to the implemented fee reform. <p> …

In this paper we propose a tax and benefit reform to increase the working hours and to decrease the welfare … self-selection into welfare. The proposed reform would generate welfare-gains for virtually everyone in the sample, yet …

regimes, and it is found that the 1991 reform (which lowered the replacement rate) had a stronger effect on the hazard of … ending short-term absenteeism than did the 1987 reform (which eliminated the previous unpaid inwaiting dayli, while …

. As an application the model is used to evaluate the recent Swedish “make work pay” reform, effective from 2007 and … further reinforced in 2008 and 2009. The key characteristic of this reform is an in-work tax credit and decreased state tax … income inequality. However, even considering the increase in hours of work, the reform is far from being self-financed.<p> …