Search for dissertations about: "Swedish pension scheme"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Swedish pension scheme.

2. 1. Psychological factors affecting citizens´investment choices in the Swedish premium pension scheme

   Author : Martin Hedesström; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; behavioural finance; decision making; Swedish pension scheme;

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4. 2. Opening the Orange Envelope : Reform and Responsibility in the Remaking of the Swedish National Pension System

   Author : Anette Nyqvist; Christina Garsten; Douglas R. Holmes; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sweden; national pension system; welfare state reform; governance; political technology; Social anthropology; Socialantropologi; Social Anthropology; socialantropologi;

   Abstract : A national pension system, like most large government policies, does many things, some of which involve governing the population and steering citizens in certain directions. This study, on the transformation of Sweden’s national pension system, sheds light on who the actors involved at different sites and levels in the policy process are, what they do, and how they do it. READ MORE

5. 3. Protection of Accrued Pension Rights - An Inquiry into Reforms of Statutory and Occupational Pension Schemes in a German, Norwegian and Swedish Context

   Author : Nils Eliasson; Juridiska institutionen; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Offentlig rätt; Public law; legitimate expectations; contract; property; company pensions; occupational pensions; statutory pensions; social insurance; labour law; public law; Constitutional law; private law; Labour law; Arbetsrätt; Civil law; Civilrätt;

   Abstract : How is the conflict between a protection of accrued pension rights and economic, political and social interests in reforming the pension scheme resolved in different countries and regarding different kinds of pension schemes? What legal or political mechanisms exist to protect accrued pension rights and to resolve this conflict? This thesis takes a comprehensive view on the pension situation of the individual, thus dealing both with statutory and occupational pension schemes from a protection of accrued rights-perspective. The research provides an extensive survey of legal as well as political solutions to the protection of accrued rights and its conflict with different interests to reform the pension schemes in the respective countries under investigation as well as under the European Convention of Human Rights. READ MORE

6. 4. Benefit Design, Retirement Decisions and Welfare Within and Across Generations in Defined Contribution Pension Schemes

   Author : Yuwei Zhao de Gosson de Varennes; Per Johansson; Edward Palmer; Tommy Bengtsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NDC; ageing population; life expectancy projection; Lee-Carter Model; benefit design; social gap in life expectancy; rate of change in mortality; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Essay 1 (with Juha Alho and Edward Palmer): All around the world, public pension schemes are moving in the direction of non-financial (NDC) and financial defined contribution (DC) schemes.  Both rely on accurate projections of life expectancy in the creation of annuities. READ MORE

7. 5. Essays in Public Finance and Behavioral Economics

   Author : Arnaldur Stefánsson; Per Engström; Eva Mörk; Mats Persson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Frisch elasticity of labor supply; identification; elasticity heterogeneity; tax compliance; loss aversion; prospect theory; benefit take-up; similarity; distributive justice; moral decision-making; ambiguity attitudes; framing; consistency of choice; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Abstract : Essay I: I study how individuals adjust their labor supply in response to a year with tax free income. Due to a transformation from a retroactive to a pay-as-you-earn tax system, income earned on the Icelandic labor market in 1987 was never taxed. READ MORE