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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Heléne - 2011
s in earlier studies
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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution: Reply
Dahlberg, Matz; Edmark, Karin; Lundqvist, Helene - 2013
In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320230
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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution : Reply
Dahlberg, Matz - 2014
In a comment to Dahlberg, Edmark and Lundqvist (2012), Nekby and Pettersson-Lidbom (2012) argue (i) that the refugee placement program should be measured with contracted rather than actually placed refugees, and claim that the correlation between the two measures is insignificant and close to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049597
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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz - 2014
for respondents with high income and wealth. We also establish that OLS estimators that do not properly deal with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049603
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Ethnic Diversity and Preferences for Redistribution
Dahlberg, Matz - 2014
for respondents with high income and wealth. We also establish that OLS estimators that do not properly deal with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066056
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Seasonal social preferences
Ekström, Mathias - 2017
Christmas is when people are expected to act selflessly for the well-being of others, but are people actually more altruistic at this time of the year? Responding to this question poses a challenge because of the confounding factors of charitable tax breaks, reciprocity motives, direct social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011917035
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Inequality and Trust in Sweden: Some Inequalities are More Harmful than Others
Gustavsson, Magnus; Jordahl, Henrik - 2006
We present new evidence on the influence of income inequality on generalized trust. Using individual panel data from … Swedish counties together with an instrumental variable strategy, we find that differences in disposable income, and … especially differences among people in the bottom half of the income distribution, are associated with lower trust. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320115
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Inequality and Trust
Jordahl, Henrik - 2007
This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the negative relationship: social ties (or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320141
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Financing from Family and Friends
Lee, Samuel; Persson, Petra - 2012
The constraint on informal finance is commonly taken to be high costs and limited supply. But the majority of informal investors - family and friends - is often willing to supply funds at negative returns, and yet many borrowers tap family and friends only as a last resort. We explain this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320342
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Risk-sharing and entrepreneurship
Kilström, Matilda; Roth, Paula - 2022
In this paper, we study the role of risk-sharing in entrepreneurship-driven innovation. Studying entrepreneurship and innovation entails modeling an occupational choice and an effort choice. Risk-sharing may increase the number of individuals who become entrepreneurs by limiting the downside...
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