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How and why the gender pension gap in urban China decreased between 1988 and 2018

Gustafsson, Björn; Zhan, Peng; Jia, Hanrui - 2023

In urban China, gender gaps in employment and earnings have steadily increased since the 1990s. Such gender gaps are important because pension rights and amounts are based on labor force participation and wages. However, as this study demonstrates, despite the rise in gender differences in the...

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Sweden's pensioners: how they have fared in the roller coaster ride through the past decade and a half of deep recession and economic exuberance

Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2007

This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …

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If Seebohm Rowntree had studied Sweden: How poverty changed in the city of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003

Gustafsson, Björn; Jansson, Birgitta - 2010

This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … of present-day Sweden: the dual earner system. …

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Economic and ethnic polarisation among children in Sweden's three metropolitan areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2007

metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …

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Neighbourhood child poverty in Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2010

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden …

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Disparities in social assistance receipt between immigrants and natives in Sweden

Gustafsson, Björn - 2011

Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …

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