Search for dissertations about: "Income dispersion"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 21 swedish dissertations containing the words Income dispersion.
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1. Essays on Consumption : - Aggregation, Asymmetry and Asset Distributions
Abstract : The dissertation consists of four self-contained essays on consumption. Essays 1 and 2 consider different measures of aggregate consumption, and Essays 3 and 4 consider how the distributions of income and wealth affect consumption from a macro and micro perspective, respectively. READ MORE
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2. Psychological perspectives on performance-based compensation : Implications for work-related and health-related outcomes
Abstract : In the past decades, the contributions of individuals have come into greater focus on all levels of employment in many types of organizations. For example, this is manifested through an increased use of individual performance-based pay setting, where individual evaluations of employees’ contributions lead to diversified pay raises among peers. READ MORE
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3. Essays on Income Taxation and Wealth Inequality
Abstract : This thesis is concerned with inequality, redistribution and taxation, in particular the taxation of labour income and the distribution of wealth. Most of the analysis is focused on Sweden. The thesis consists of four self-contained essays.Essay 1: “Analyzing tax reforms using the Swedish Labour Income Microsimulation Model”. READ MORE
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4. Explaining Earnings and Income Inequality in Chile
Abstract : The focal point of all papers in this thesis is income inequality in Chile. In some of them household income is analyzed, in others monthly earnings or the wage rate are used. In the first and fourth paper a long-run analysis is done, while in the second and third I concentrate my attention only on the 1990s. READ MORE
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5. Essays on Income Risk, Portfolio Choices and the Macroeconomy
Abstract : Business cycle asymmetry of earnings pass-throughHow does the firm's role as an insurance provider vary over the business cycle? Using Swedish administrative data, I document that idiosyncratic firm productivity shocks are passed through workers' earnings asymmetrically. In non-recessions, firms are good insurers against negative shocks. READ MORE