There is continued debate, with important social consequences, about how social status is transmitted between parents and children. In particular, how much does genetics as opposed to social causation matter? In an ingenious recent article, Collado et al. (2023), using an extended family lineage...

STRING (South Western Baltic Sea Transregional Region - Implementing New Geography) is a regional cooperation of urban centers and regions in the Nordic countries and Northern Germany. The study shows that the member countries of STRING have developed dynamically over the last decades, both...

Deutschland sieht sich zahlreichen politischen Herausforderungen gegenüber. Wie die Bewältigung dieser Aufgaben priorisiert wird, zeigt sich in der Ausgabenpolitik. Nicht umsonst wird der Haushalt häufig als "in Zahlen gegossene Politik" bezeichnet. Welcher Stellenwert wird dem Sozialstaat...

Migration is vividly considered to be a particular challenge for extended welfare states like the Nordics since high taxes and entitlement to the social safety net and provision of welfare services may create both pull and push effects in migration. The financial viability of the model is...

Using linked employer-employee data combined with administrative data on debt enforcement, we analyze the impact of job loss on debt problems in Finland, where even 50% of income may be subject to wage garnishment for up to 25 years. Our results show that job loss, defined by plant closures and...

This paper develops a simple nonparametric test for perfect competition in markets for homogenous goods. The method only requires data on prices and some aggregate of output. We then generalize the method to account for variable capacity and intertemporal production decisions. We apply the...

This paper explores post-pandemic developments and analyses post-COVID matching dynamics in the Nordic labour markets. It also discusses the role of institutions and the policies implemented to address labour market mismatch in the region. The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a recession, with a...

This paper studies the volatility of electricity spot prices in the Nordic market (Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Norway) under regime switching. Utilizing Markov-switching GARCH (Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity) models, we provide strong evidence of nonlinear regime...

In this paper we estimate social mobility rates, free of measurement errors, using register data for Denmark and Sweden, 1968 to 2021. To correct for measurement error attenuation, we take ratios of the correlation of relatives at different locations in family trees, such as cousins relative to...

The various form of pattern bargaining with manufacturing, as representative of the tradables sector, deciding the norm for wage increases in the Nordic countries are reviewed. This form of bargaining has been consistent with strong international competitiveness and has widespread support among...

Policymakers, public commentators, and researchers often cite the Nordic countries as examples of a social and economic model that successfully combines low income inequality with prosperity and growth. This article aims to critically assess this claim by integrating theoretical perspectives and...

Die Studie entwickelt eine Methodik für den Aufbau regionaler Ökosysteme der Kreislaufwirtschaft. Anhand von RRR-Ökosystemen (Re-use, Repair, Refurbishment) im Bereich der Elektro- und Elektronikgeräte wird ein Leitfaden konzipiert. Dieser führt die Akteure in vier aufeinander aufbauenden...

Dieser Forschungsbericht untersucht sechs regionale RRR-Ökosysteme (Re-use, Repair, Refurbishment) für Elektro- und Elektronikgeräte in Nordwesteuropa. Auf Basis von Praxiserfahrungen und Interviews im Rahmen des von der Europäischen Union geförderten Projekts E6 werden zentrale Schritte,...