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Cross-Border Health and Productivity Effects of Alcohol Policies

Johansson, Per - 2012

cut in the Finnish alcohol tax on mortality, alcohol related illnesses and work absenteeism in Sweden. This tax cut led to … the Finnish border are compared to changes in other parts of northern Sweden. We use register data where micro level data … outcomes. Our results on the effect of the Finnish tax cut on mortality and alcohol-related hospitalisations in Sweden are very …

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Voluntary Public Unemployment Insurance

Parsons, Donald O. - 2015

Denmark has drawn much attention for its active labor market policies, but is almost unique in offering a voluntary public unemployment insurance program requiring a significant premium payment. A safety net program – a less generous, means-tested social assistance plan – completes the...

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Ethnic Minority Youths in the Labour Markets in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

Niknami, Susan - 2019

This paper uses administrative data to in detail document how the share of youths not in employment, education or training has evolved over time in the Scandinavian countries. We study both first- and second-generation immigrant youths as well as natives to explore whether the pattern differ...

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Immigration History, Entry Jobs, and the Labor Market Integration of Immigrants

Ansala, Laura - 2020

enter the labor market. We focus on two countries—Finland and Sweden—that have similar formal institutions but starkly …

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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment : New Insights on the Nordic Experience

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - 2021

impact in Finland than in its twin economy, Sweden … derive from the temporary (albeit prolonged) negative shocks to capital stock growth in Denmark and Sweden, and the permanent … downturn of capital stock growth in Finland. We are thus able to explain why the crisis of the early 1990s had a more acute …

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An Age Perspective on Economic Well-Being and Social Protection in Nine OECD Countries

Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2021

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States

Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jantti, Markus; … - 2021

between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …

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Sweden's COVID-19 Recession : How Foreign and Domestic Infections Struck Against Firms and Workers

Akerman, Anders; Ekholm, Karolina; Persson, Torsten; … - 2022

Using highly granular micro data, we document very divergent economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Swedish private-sector firms and their workers. Firms that exported to, or imported from, heavily afflicted countries reduced their output due to disrupted trade. Service firms that operated...

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Foreign Acquisitions, Domestic Multinationals, and R&D

Bandick, Roger - 2010

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...

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Intergenerational Spillovers of Integration Policies : Evidence from Finland S Integration Plans

Pesola, Hanna; Sarvimäki, Matti - 2022

their children. Our research design builds on a discontinuity in the phase-in-rule of Finland s 1999 reform that introduced …

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