Essays about: "Earned Income"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 20 essays containing the words Earned Income.

1. 6. An explanation to earned income disparities

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

   Author : David Sundin; Johan Karlsson; [2019]
   Keywords : Earned Income; Municipality; Education; Population Size; House Price; Income Difference;

   Abstract : The earned income differ across municipalities in Sweden, where Stockholm is the location with the highest average earned income. One can ask whether this is depending on higher educational attainment, the disparity in population size and house prices. READ MORE

3. 7. Did the earned income tax credit affect women’s labour supply in Sweden?

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Hyrije Hasani; Marija Kamath; [2019]
   Keywords : Women’s labour supply; Earned Income Tax Credit EITC ; Neoclassical model of labour-leisure choice; Difference-in-Differences DiD ;

   Abstract : Women’s labour supply in Sweden, even if it is high in comparison to other countries, is still lower than men’s. Did the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) reform in 2007 affect women’s labour supply? It is difficult to estimate the effects of the EITC, mainly because everybody in Sweden was treated simultaneously, and because the Great Recession hit at the same time. READ MORE

4. 8. Exploring Stockolm’s Spatial Capital in Relation to Sustainable Development : a quantitative study on the impact of geographical proximity on education and income

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

   Author : Tobias Karström; [2018]
   Keywords : Spatial capital; human capital; regional planning; Stockholm county; sustainable development;

   Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to examine if the theoretical concept of spatial capital explains the distribution of the human capital and high incomes in an urban region using Stockholm county as an empirical example. The spatial capital theory suggests that geographical proximities can explain social and economic distributions in urban regions and is divided into two subcategories;position and situation capital where the former measures the geographical proximities to urban environments and cultural amenities and the latter measures to proximities to public transportation alternatives. READ MORE

5. 9. Earned Income Tax Credit and Wages: A Study of Swedish Panel Data

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Jesper Ekman; [2018]
   Keywords : EITC; Wage; Labor supply; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This thesis examines how the introduction of an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in Sweden in 2007 may have affected pre-tax salaries. Previous research has found that the incidence of an EITC may not be entirely carried by the employees, which in some earlier research is assumed. READ MORE

6. 10. Immigration and the Municipal Economies in Sweden: The Impact of Population Change on Aggregate Outcomes

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Henrik Boltenstål; Olle Kruber; [2017]
   Keywords : Migration; Migration Policy; Local Government Expenditures; Demographic Economics;

   Abstract : Asylum immigration in Sweden entails net fiscal costs on national level, but the impact on individual municipalities is not extensively researched. If there are net costs also on municipal level, it could be argued that the management principle of controllability is violated, as the allocation of asylum immigrants is decided on national level, but the long term costs are borne mainly by the municipalities. READ MORE