The population of Sweden is ageing and the number of pensioners is increasing. This means that the incomes of older …

The population of Sweden is ageing and the number of pensioners is increasing. This means that the incomes of older …

economic exclusion of immigrants, conceptualized not as labor market outcomes but as relative poverty. This study examines the … relationship between welfare generosity and immigrant poverty across rich western democracies and compares this relationship with … that of native poverty. One publicly held belief is that immigrants disproportionately benefit from welfare generosity …

contribution to inequality and poverty in Sweden, but occupy only limited space in the income inequality debate. To fill this gap …, we put a quarter of a century of rising inequality in Sweden in a new perspective by quantifying the effect of changing … household composition, age structure, industry structure, educational attainment and immigration on inequality. The influence of …

Most welfare states design their tax/benefit system to combat income poverty. Some countries are more effective in … poverty alleviation than others. What can explain these variations in outcomes and effectiveness? And has the redistributive … transfers and income taxes in alleviating poverty. We focus on 49 LIS-countries for the period 1967-2016. We compare relative …

elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to … conclude that the Swedish welfare state has maintained its resilience. -- Sweden ; pensions ; income ; poverty ; income …This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period …

Sweden is an egalitarian society in international comparison, and has managed to combine equity with economic … efficiency. Rapidly rising inequality and relative poverty from a historical low in the 1980s partly stem from ageing, changing … costly to migrants and society, and high entry wages further slow integration. Spatial segregation leads to school …