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  • Anders Björklund and Richard B. Freeman, Reforming the Welfare State: Recovery and Beyond in Sweden (University of Chicago Press, 2010), chap. 1, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/reforming-welfare-state-recovery-and-beyond-sweden/searching-optimal-inequalityincentives.

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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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