Search for dissertations about: "income inequality and economic growth"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 34 swedish dissertations containing the words income inequality and economic growth.

  2. 1. On Specifying and Estimating Economic Growth as a Spatial Process : Convergence, Inequality, and Migration

    Author : Martin E. Gustafsson; Roger Bivand; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social and economic geography; Economic geography; economic growth; regional convergence; migration; spatial statistics; spatially correlated errors; geographical dependence; Kulturgeografi; Human geography; Kulturgeografi; kulturgeografi; Social and Economic Geography;

    Abstract : This thesis includes three self-contained papers. The first paper considers the effect of geographically dependent observations on cross-sectional growth convergence and proposes a way of decomposing the level of technology taking into account geographical variation in growth rates. READ MORE

  4. 2. Essays on Economic Growth, Inflation and Inequality

    Author : Markus Kondziella; Timo Boppart; Per Krusell; Joshua Weiss; Carolina Villegas-Sanchez; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Economic Growth; Inflation; Inequality; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Recent changes in firm dynamics and the nature of economic growthIn line with the US economy, market concentration and dispersion of revenue productivity within industries increased in Sweden from 1997-2017. I document a novel finding in administrative data that provides important insights about the trends: firm size and revenue productivity growth accelerated starting in the 1990s. READ MORE

  5. 3. Essays on Income Risk and Inequality

    Author : Karl Harmenberg; Per Krusell; Fatih Guvenen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; income risk; income inequality; consumption; durable goods; cyclical skewness; top-income inequality; gender gap; glass ceiling; assortative mating; Economics; nationalekonomi;

    Abstract : Consumption Dynamics under Time-Varying Unemployment Risk We study the response of households' demand for durable goods to fluctuations in unemployment risk. First, using survey data, we document that household durable expenditures react strongly to unemployment risk, while the effect on nondurable expenditures is indistinguishable from zero. READ MORE

  6. 4. Lifting All Boats? The Evolution of Income and Wealth Inequality over the Path of Development

    Author : Daniel Waldenström; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Income distribution; Top incomes; Wealth inequality; Intergenerational mobility; Income taxation; Economic history;

    Abstract : Does a rising tide lift all boats? This question – that is, to what extent does improvements of the general economy benefit all – is central to the study of economics and history. From fundamental issues about whether market forces have an innate tendency to increase or decrease differences in economic outcomes, to much debated questions about the effects of government policies, distributional concerns are always present. READ MORE

  7. 5. Institutions, Inequality and Societal Transformations

    Author : Sara Moricz; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender Norms; Metoo; Sweden; LSTM Neural Network; Asia; Indonesia; Democracy; Elections; Economic Growth; Income Inequality; Economic Development;

    Abstract : Institutions matter for economic development. This thesis consists of three self-contained articles which provide different contributions to institutional economics.The first article studies short-run changes in gender norms. It takes advantage of recent developments in machine learning algorithms to study changes in norms in Swedish tweets. READ MORE