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Futures studies and futures shaping: strategies for cooperation between futures studies and politics in the Federal Republic of Germany and other countries
Canzler, Weert - In: Recent futures studies in the Federal Republic of …, (pp. 39-43). 1991
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295069
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Municipal activation policy: A case study of the practical work with unemployed social assistance recipients
Thorén, Katarina Hjertner - 2005
In the 1990s, many municipalities developed local activation programs for social assistance recipients as a response to increasing social assistance expenditures. This study investigates the practical implementation of municipal activation policies in two different activation programs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010317911
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Is there a Race-to-the-Bottom in the Setting of Welfare Benefit Levels? Evidence from a Policy Intervention
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin - 2004
welfare benefit level with 100 SEK, a municipality decreases its benefit level with approximately 59 SEK. This result is …
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Nordische Bankenkrise der 90er Jahre: gemischte Erfahrungen mit "Bad Banks"
Ketzler, Rolf; Schäfer, Dorothea - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 5, pp. 87-95
Zentrale Maßnahmen zur Überwindung der Bankenkrisen der 90er Jahre in Schweden und Finnland waren in beiden Ländern der …
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Informal benchmarks as a source of regulatory threat in unregulated utility sectors
Söderberg, Magnus - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent unregulated local monopolies attempt not to evoke the introduction of a formal price regulation by conforming to customers' and authorities' expectations. It is argued that utilities can meet expectations by setting prices that imitate neighbours' prices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266107
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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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The financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden
Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269001
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274062
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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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