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  1. 1. Keeping up with the Joneses, the neighbors and the richest - Can time-varying keeping up parameters explain the relationship between income inequality and household debt?

    D-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Elin Molin; Paula Roth; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Income inequality; Household debt; Catching up with; Keeping up with the Joneses; Consumption theory;

    Sammanfattning : Many OECD countries have experienced a large increase in household debt during the last two decades. Simultaneously, income inequality has risen in most of the western world. This trend has been particularly notable in the US. LÄS MER

  2. 2. The Employment Effect of an Increase in the Swedish Minimum Wage: An empirical study of the 2005 wage agreement between SKL and Kommunal

    C-uppsats, Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Författare :Mikolaj Gruszczynski; Paula Roth; [2010]
    Nyckelord :Minimum wage; employment effect; public sector; municipality;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the relationship between a minimum wage increase and change in employment for municipality workers in Sweden between 2003 and 2007. The effect is estimated by performing a natural experiment comparing a treatment group of workers affected by the increase to a control group of unaffected workers. LÄS MER