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The Long-run Determinants of Inequality: What Can We Learn from Top Income Data?

Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: the rich (P99-100), the upper middle class (P90-99), and the rest of the population (P0-90). The results show that...

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Taxes and Job Mobility in Sweden.

Lundborg, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995

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Capital Gains Taxation and Residential Mobility in Sweden.

Lundborg, P.; Skedinger, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995

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Anatomy of Policy Complementarities

Orszag, J. Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of...

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Growth and the Public Sector: A Critique of the Critics

Folster, S.; Henrekson, M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

In a recent review article Jonas Agell, Thomas Lindh and Henry Ohlsson (1997) claim that theoretical and empirical evidence does not allow any conclusion on whether there is a relationship between the rate of economic growth and the size of the public sector. They illustrate their conclusion...

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Entrepreneurship and the Theory of Taxation

Henrekson, Magnus; Sanandaji, Tino - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Taxation theory rarely takes entrepreneurship into consideration. We discuss how this omission affects conclusions … derived from standard models of capital taxation when applied to entrepreneurial income. Some of the defining features of … entrepreneurship often omitted by standard capital taxation theory are incorporated into the analysis. This includes the lack of a well …

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Taxation and Entrepreneurship in a Welfare State

Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009

taxation or capital gains taxation are found. The paper improves upon earlier studies in that it tries to separate the effects …-tax welfare state. Earlier time-series studies analyzing self-employment and taxation have with few exceptions been based on data …

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Institutional Effects on the Evolution of the Size Distribution of Firms

Henrekson, M.; Johansson, D. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

In this paper it is argued that the size distribution of firms may largely be determined by institutional factors. This hypothesis is tested in an exploratory fashion by studying the evolution of the size distribution of firms over time in Sweden for a period spanning from teh late 1960s to the...

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Anatomy of Policy Complementarities.

Orszag, J.M.; Snower, D.J. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the Disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639330

Explaining National Differences in the Size and Industrial Distribution of Employment.

Davis, S-J; Henrekson, M - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997

the role of business taxation, employment security laws, credit market policies, wage-setting institutions and the size of …

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