Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives

Anders Björklund & Richard B. Freeman
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Copyright 2010
ISBN 978-0-226-26192-8
Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden
Book: Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden
Book editors: Richard B. Freeman, Birgitta Swedenborg & Robert Topel
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
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Searching for Optimal Inequality/Incentives
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This paper examines the evolution of economic inequality in Sweden before, during and after the major macro-economic...

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