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The farm, the city, and the emergence of social security

Caucutt, Elizabeth M.; Cooley, Thomas F.; Guner, Nezih - 2008

In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...

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Structural Change and the Kaldor Facts of Economic Growth

Foellmi, Reto; Zweimüller, Josef - 2002

We present a model in which two of the most important features of the long-run growth process are reconciled: the massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that households expand their consumption along a hierarchy of needs...

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Structural change in a multi-sector model of growth

Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2005

We study a multi-sector model of growth with differences in TFP growth rates across sectors and derive sufficient conditions for the coexistence of structural change, characterized by sectoral labor reallocation, and balanced aggregate growth. The conditions are weak restrictions on the utility...

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Jobless growth through creative destruction: Ireland's industrial development path 1972 - 2003

Li, Qi; Walsh, Patrick Paul; Whelan, Ciara - 2007

We document the nature of structural changes in employment to understand jobless growth in Irish Manufacturing in the aftermath of EEC/EU membership, 1972-2003. By 1972, forty years of protectionism and fifteen years of export promotion induced the coexistence of large exporting plants with...

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Structural change out of agriculture: labor push versus labor pull

Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco; Poschke, Markus - 2009

The process of economic development is characterized by substantial rural-urban migrations and a decreasing share of agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i) improvements in agricultural technology combined...

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Benchmarking Structural Change in Transition

Raiser, Martin; Schaffer, Mark E.; Schuchhardt, Johannes - 2003

The transition to market-based economic systems in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union involves fundamental shifts in the allocation of resources and deep changes in the structure of production and employment. This paper uses a simple model of economic...

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Sweden's pensioners: how they have fared in the roller coaster ride through the past decade and a half of deep recession and economic exuberance

Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2007

This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … elderly. Overall, poverty among the elderly in Sweden remains low in an international perspective and our analysis leads us to …

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The financial and operating performance of privatized firms in Sweden

Tatahi, Motasam; Heshmati, Almas - 2009

are significantly different to private counterparts. Overall results, however, show that the privatization in Sweden was …

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If Seebohm Rowntree had studied Sweden: How poverty changed in the city of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003

Gustafsson, Björn; Jansson, Birgitta - 2010

This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of … of present-day Sweden: the dual earner system. …

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Economic and ethnic polarisation among children in Sweden's three metropolitan areas

Biterman, Danuta; Gustafsson, Björn; Österberg, Torun - 2007

metropolitan regions of Sweden by using a relative new operationalization of the neighbourhood concept. Neighbourhoods are …

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