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Objective: This paper measures large out-of-pocket expenses by health condition, income, and elderly status, and estimates changes in them between 2010 and 2013. Data Source: The paper uses nationally-representative household survey data. Study Design: Logistic regression estimates the...
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Fathers in the Nordic countries were among the first in the world to gain the right to paid parental leave. The overall uptake has however been low, despite various attempts to increase it. This paper compares characteristics of fathers in four Nordic countries, to identify important...
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Income inequality has been on the rise in many industrialised countries since around the 1980's. In Sweden the increase … of income inequality has been particularly large. This in spite of Sweden's extensive redistribution system and public … that is yet fairly unexplored, namely immigration. As inequality has increased in Sweden, so has also immigration. Sweden …
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This paper analyses major pension system regulation in four European countries: Denmark, Germany, Sweden, and the …
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reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine …
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personal income inequality, whilst for Sweden the evidence leads to disregard the capital share as a determinant of income …
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five countries that experienced a period of crisis: United States, Germany, Norway, Sweden and Brazil. For each country the …
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This paper aims to assess the present social assistance schemes with the model of production of welfare and the concept of social right. The interest is in how different stages of social assistance schemes are linked and how schemes appear when a number of indicators are used. One of the aspects...
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