In a total wage concept we include fringe benefits and earnings-related insurance rights, in addition to money wage. Sickness benefit rights are an important part of insurance rights in many industrial countries. In this paper we analyse sickness benefit insurance rights and estimate their...

Most labour market analyses take money wages as the sole measure of compensation for labour, thus excluding fringe benefits. We examine an extended compensation measure by incorporating mandatory collective earnings-related insurance rights: the rights of individual old age pension, sickness...

This paper highlights public and negotiated pension rights in a total wage concept. Individual annual pension rights are calculated in order to analyse what the inclusion of pension rights in total wage could mean for wage differentials and wage dispersion. Copyright Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini...

The paper compares the distribution of individuals’ wage to the distribution of labor compensation when important non-wage benefits are included. In our study for Sweden focus is on pensions, survivors’ benefits and sickness benefits. These are non-observed. A method of estimating these...

Economics in Sweden is still a male-dominated profession, despite an increasing number of women entering the profession during recent decades. About one third of the students in the higher undergraduate programs in economics are women. Women’s proportion of the licentiate degrees obtained has...

Att ersättningsgraden i arbetslöshetsförsäkringen kan ha viss effekt på arbetslösheten är knappast ifrågasatt. Diskussionen i forskningen gäller mest hur stor den effekten kan tänkas vara i praktiken. Det statliga Institutet för Arbetsmarknadspolitisk Utvärdering (IFAU) publicerade i...

Carling, Holmlund and Vejsiu reported in the October 2001 issue of the Economic Journal that a cut in the unemployment insurance replacement rate from 80 to 75 percent caused a 10 percent increase in the job finding rate. They also identify an anticipatory reform effect up to five months before...

The elasticity of taxable income indicates the effects on income from a change in the marginal tax rate. In a number of studies on U.S. data rather strong effects have been found, although estimates seem lower in more recent papers. Studies based on data from other countries are only a few and...

Ersättningsgraden i arbetslöshetsförsäkringen har förändrats flera gånger under 1990-talet. 1996 års sänkning från 80 till 75 procent ledde till en tioprocentig ökning av övergångarna till arbete enligt det statliga Institutet för arbetsmarknadspolitisk utvärdering (IFAU). I vår...