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Using a panel of 260 Swedish municipalities over the period 1987-1996, this paper investigates the direct displacement effects of active labour market programmes (ALMPs). Compared to earlier studies on this topic, we have more and better data. From our GMM estimations, we find that (i) there are...
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This paper studies income poverty among the 50+ population in 10 EU countries using newly collected data from the SHARE (Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe) project. A measure of the household’s disposable annual income is used. Relative income poverty range from 10 percent (in...
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We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … income inequality and trust is particularly strong for people with a strong aversion against income differentials. We also …
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Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … is therefore to disentangle the two effects by, first, estimating region-specific inequality in permanent and transitory … indicate that it is important to separate the two effects; while an increase in the inequality in permanent income yields a …
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This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane’s (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...
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This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane’s (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322954
This paper is concerned with the labor market experience of Swedish youths during the 1980s and the 1990s. The first objective is to portray early economic attainment among young Swedes. The second objective of the paper is to examine the impact of labor market programs on youth employment. We...
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contrary, we conclude that - because of severe downward nominal wage rigidity - real wages have become more rigid during Sweden …
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? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …
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-opment? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762027