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  1. 1. The Mystery of Inequality : Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions

    Författare :Olle Hammar; Daniel Waldenström; Niklas Bengtsson; Ingvild Almås; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Inequality; Culture; Development; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : Essay I (with Daniel Waldenström): We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups by constructing a new database that covers 68 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2018. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has fallen, primarily during the 2000s and 2010s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped by 15 points and the earnings share of the world’s poorest half doubled. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Roads from Unemployment : Institutional Complementarities in Product and Labor Markets

    Författare :Karl-Oskar Lindgren; Torsten Svensson; Jörgen Hermansson; Lars Calmfors; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Political science; Unemployment; Wage Bargaining; Wage Coordination; Corporatism; Labor Market Institutions; Institutional Complementarities; Varieties of Capitalism; Wage Inequality; Political Economy; Path Dependence; Statsvetenskap; Political science; Statsvetenskap; statskunskap; statskunskap;

    Sammanfattning : Bringing down unemployment is a top priority for governments across the industrialized world, regardless of ideological bent. What is at issue in the political debate is not if unemployment should be combatted, but by what means. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Diskriminering på svensk arbetsmarknad : en analys av löneskillnader mellan kvinnor och män

    Författare :Åsa Löfström; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; discrimination; wage-differentials; productivity; qualifications; female; male; anti-discrimination laws; equal-pay; reverse - direct regression;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to examine whether, and to what extent, the differences in wages between women and men can be explained by discrimination against women in the labour market.The first part of the analysis is a cross-sectional analysis. LÄS MER

  5. 4. One coin - One vote : the rural political power shift that pushed Sweden towards industrialization

    Författare :Erik Lindgren; Björn Tyrefors; Per Pettersson-Lidbom; Erik Grönqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Development; Education; Infrastructure Investment; Railroads; Historical data; Political Institutions; Infant mortality and Weather; Growth; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : The Causal Effect of Political Power on the Provision of Public Education: Evidence from a Weighted Voting SystemWe estimate how political power affects the provision of public education in local governments, using data from a nondemocratic society where voters received votes in proportion to their taxable income. This was the system used in Swedish local governments during the period 1862–1909. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Essays in Development, Institutions and Gender

    Författare :Johanna Rickne; Bertil Holmlund; Lina Song; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four self-contained essays. In the first essay, me and Johan Lyhagen develop a test of economic convergence or divergence using time series methods. The usefulness of the method is illustrated in an analysis of the growth pattern between Chinese regions in 1952-2007. LÄS MER