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Women in top incomes: Evidence from Sweden 1974-2013

Boschini, Anne; Gunnarsson, Kristin; Roine, Jesper - 2018

Using a large, register-based panel data set we study gender differences in top incomes in Sweden over the period 1974-2013. We find that, while women are still a minority of the top decile group, and make up a smaller share the higher up in the distribution we move, their presence has steadily...

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Lifetime versus annual tax progressivity: Sweden, 1968-2009

Bengtsson, Niklas; Holmlund, Bertil; Waldenström, Daniel - 2012

This paper analyzes the evolution of tax progressivity in Sweden from both annual and lifetime perspectives. Using a rich micro panel with administrative records of incomes, taxes and benefits over the period 1968 - 2009, we calculate tax rates across the income distribution accounting for...

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Many Types of Human Capital and Many Roles in U.S. Growth: Evidence from County-Level Educational Attainment Data

Young, Andrew T.; Levy, Daniel; Higgins, Matthew J. - 2004

We utilize county-level data to explore the roles of different types of human capital accumulation in U.S. growth … county. This is a departure from much of the economic growth literature, which has (at least in part) relied on extrapolation … economic growth, (ii) the percentage obtaining a high school diploma is positively correlated with growth, and (iii) the …

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Sector-specific human capital and the distribution of earnings

Smith, Eric - 2009

This paper incorporates assignment frictions and sector-specific training into the Roy model of occupational choice. Assignment frictions represent the extent of the market whereas differences in sector-specific training reflect worker specialization. This framework thus captures Adam Smith's...

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The different returns to cognitive ability in the labor and capital markets

Bastani, Spencer; Karlsson, Kristina; Waldenström, Daniel - 2023

We investigate the returns to cognitive ability in the labor and capital markets. Using population-wide Swedish military enlistment data and administrative tax records, we find that cognitive ability is much better at predicting capital income than labor earnings. The difference is almost a...

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Should we sustain? And if so, sustain what? Consumption or the quality of life?

Llavador, Humberto; Roemer, John E.; Silvestre, Joaquim - 2012

Sustainability has been largely replaced by discounted utilitarianism in contemporary climate-change economics. Our approach rejuvenates sustainability by expanding the conception of the quality of life, along the lines of the UN Human Development Reports, to include not only consumption, but...

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Land inequality and the origin of divergence and overtaking in the growth process: Theory and evidence

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2003

from an agrarian to an industrial economy generating diverging growth patterns across countries. Land abundance, which was … beneficial in early stages of development, generated in later stages a hurdle for human capital accumulation and economic growth … of industrialization affected the transition to modern growth and has brought about changes in the ranking of countries …

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Trading population for productivity

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2003

asymmetrically. The gains from trade were channeled towards population growth in non-industrial nations while in the industrial … nations they were directed towards investment in education and growth in output per capita. International trade enhanced the … comparative disadvantage in the production of skilled intensive goods. The focus on the interaction between population growth and …

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Trade and the great divergence: The family connection

Galor, Oded; Mountford, Andrew - 2006

towards investment in education and growth in output per capita, a significant portion of the gains from trade in non …-industrial nations was channeled towards population growth. …

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Land inequality and the emergence of human capital promoting institutions

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer; Vollrath, Dietrich - 2005

This research suggests that favorable geographical conditions, that were inherently associated with inequality in the distribution of land ownership, adversely affected the implementation of human capital promoting institutions (e.g., public schooling and child labor regulations), and thus the...

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