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15 October, 2012

Government quality, egalitarianism, and attitudes to taxes and social spending: a European comparison

European Political Science Review, Vol 5 (2013), pp 363-80. First published online July 16, 2012, doi:10.1017/S175577391200015X. The paper analyses how perceptions of government quality – in terms of i

Type of publication: Journal articles | Svallfors, Stefan
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08 May, 2023

The rise and fall of ordoliberalism

Socio-Economic Review Abstract Ordoliberalism has been accused of being the ideational blueprint for Germany’s fiscal stance during the Eurozone-crisis. While the literature that debates the influence o

Type of publication: Journal articles | Hien, Josef
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06 October, 2022

Prioritarianism, timeslices, and prudential value

Australasian Journal of Philosophy ABSTRACT This paper shows that versions of prioritarianism that focus at least partially on well-being levels at certain times conflict with conventional views of prud

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders , Andric, Vuko
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22 January, 2021

Spectrum arguments, parity and persistency

in: Theoria (2020) Volume 86:4 AbstractThis article shows that introducing the positive comparative relation parity only helps one block so‐called “Spectrum Arguments” in order to avoid their unsavoury

Type of publication: Journal articles | Herlitz, Anders
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16 January, 2011

Remittances from Sweden – an Exploration of Swedish Survey Data

The present study explores data on transfers of gifts/economic support to relatives, and analyses these in relation to different kinds of income, education, age, time since migration, acquisition of c

Type of publication: Working papers | Lisa Pelling, Charlotta Hedberg and Bo Malmberg
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29 September, 2010

The Nordic Welfare Model in a European Perspective

From a comparative point of view the Nordic countries have succeeded well in terms of poverty alleviation; however, last-resort safety-nets are changing. This study analyses central dimensions of Nord

Type of publication: Working papers | Susan Kuivalainen and Kenneth Nelson
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03 October, 2008

Low Fertility and Long Run Growth in an Economy with a Large Public Sector

An important mechanism in low fertility countries is social interactions and its effects on ideal family size; as this is hard to capture in formal models, this paper uses an agent based simulation mo

Type of publication: Working papers | Jovan Zamac, Daniel Hallberg and Thomas Lindh
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09 September, 2008

Interpreting Europe and US Labor Market Differences: the Specificity of Human Capital Investments

This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model favors

Type of publication: Working papers | Etienne Wasmer
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01 March, 2008

The Importance of Education for the Reallocation of Labor. Evidence from Swedish Linked Employer-Employee data 1986-2002

The paper examines how job- and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy from 1986 to

Type of publication: Working papers | Marie Gartell, Ann-Christin Jans and Helena Persson
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25 August, 2007

Wage Differences Between Women and Men in Sweden – the Impact of Skill Mismatch

This paper investigates skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden 1993 to 2002. It shows that over- and undereducation contribute far more t

Type of publication: Working papers | Mats Johansson and Katarina Katz
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