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Maximum fee vs child benefit: A welfare analysis of Swedish child-care fee reform

Brink, Anna; Nordblom, Katarina; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2007

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> …

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From Welfare to Work: Evaluating a Proposed Tax and Benefit Reform Targeted at Single Mothers in Sweden

Flood, Lennart; Pylkkänen, Elina; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003

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 …

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Incentives and creativity in groups

Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2013

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...

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GETTING PEOPLE INTO WORK: WHAT (IF ANYTHING) CAN JUSTIFY MANDATORY ACTIVATION OF WELFARE RECIPIENTS?

Molander, Anders; Torsvik, Gaute - Institutt for Økonomi, Universitetet i Bergen - 2013

So-called activation policies aiming at bringing jobless people into work have been a central component of welfare reforms across OECD countries during the last decades. Such policies combine restrictive and enabling programs, but their characteristic feature is that also enabling programs are...

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SWEtaxben: A Swedish Tax/benefit Micro Simulation Model and an Evaluation of a Swedish Tax Reform.

Ericson, Peter; Flood, Lennart; Wahlberg, Roger - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2009

. 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> …

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