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    • Taking work home: Labour dynamics of women industrial homeworkers in Sweden during the second industrial revolution 

      Nilsson, Malin (2015-03-05)
      The papers in this dissertation explore women’s labour market decisions in the context of an industrializing economy by focusing on female industrial homeworkers in Sweden during the second industrial revolution. Three ...
    • Talks on Tracks - Debating Urban Infrastructure Projects 

      Corvellec, Hervé (2000)
      This paper retraces and analyzes the debate around a major infrastructure project in central Stockholm, the construction of a third railroad track over the islet of Riddarholm. Using the analytical framework of the New ...
    • Tangible Temptation in the Social Dilemma: Cash, cooperation, and self-control 

      Myrseth, K.O.R.; Riener, G.; Wollbrant, Conny (2013-05)
      The social dilemma may contain, within the individual, a self-control conflict between urges to act selfishly and better judgment to cooperate. Examining the argument from the perspective of temptation, we pair the public ...
    • Targeted Enforcement and Aggregate Emissions With Uniform Emission Taxes 

      Coria, Jessica; Villegas-Palacio, Clara (2010-06)
      In practice, targeted monitoring seems to be a strategy frequently used by regulators. In this paper, we study the effects of targeted monitoring strategies on the adoption of a new abatement technology and, consequently, ...
    • Tariff protection in Sweden 1885–1914 

      Bohlin, Jan (2005)
      This paper presents disaggregated estimates of nominal and effective rates of tariff protection for Sweden 1885–1914. In a methodological part of the article I argue that the proper way to measure tariff protection is an ...
    • Tax avoidance and intra-family transfers 

      Ohlsson, Henry; Nordblom, Katarina (2005)
      To what extent do people avoid taxes on intra-family transfers (bequests and gifts), and how would integration (unification) of the different transfers taxes affect tax avoidance? These issues are important for families ...
    • Tax Evasion and the Importance of Trust 

      Nordblom, Katarina; Jagers, Sverker C.; Hammar, Henrik (2005)
      Unless people pay the taxes they are obliged to pay, a general welfare state will eventually collapse. Thus, for the welfare state to survive in the long run, tax compliance is of utmost importance. Using Swedish individual ...
    • Tax Evasion with a Conscience 

      Dufwenberg, Martin; Nordblom, Katarina (University of Gothenburg, 2018-08)
      How do moral concerns affect tax compliance and the need for audits? We propose answers by exploring an inspection game, modified to incorporate belief-dependent taxpayer guilt, unawareness, and third-party audience effects. ...
    • Tax Morale and Policy Intervention 

      Nordblom, Katarina (2017-11)
      This paper deals with tax morale and how norms may evolve over time. The special focus is on buying black-market services. I apply mechanisms from social psychology to explain how personal norms may evolve due to one's own ...
    • Tax Toleration and Tax Compliance: How Government Affects the Propensity of Firms to Enter the Unofficial Economy 

      Piculescu, Violeta; Hibbs, Jr, Douglas A. (2006)
      How do government-supplied institutional benefits and the taxation and regulation of produc- ers affect the propensity of private firms to enter the unofficial economy and evade taxation? We propose a model in which the ...
    • The Tax-Spending Nexus: Evidence from a Panel of US State- Local Governments 

      Westerlund, Joakim; Mahdavi, Saeid; Firoozi, Fathali (2009-09-11)
      We re-examine the tax-spending nexus using a panel of 50 US state-local government units between 1963 and 1997. We find that, unlike tax revenues, expenditures adjust to revert back to a long-term equilibrium relationship. ...
    • Taxes, Permits and Costly Policy Response to Technological Change 

      Coria, Jessica; Hennlock, Magnus (2010-05-10)
      In this paper we analyze the e ects of the choice of price (taxes) versus quantity (tradable permits) instruments on the policy response to technological change. We show that if policy responses incur transactional and ...
    • Taxes, Permits and the Adoption of Abatement Technology under Imperfect Compliance 

      Villegas, Clara; Coria, Jessica (2009-06-16)
      This paper analyzes the effects of the choice between price-based and quantity-based emission regulations on compliance incentives and social welfare in the presence of incomplete enforcement and technology adoption. We ...
    • Taxes, Wages and Working Hours 

      Ericson, Peter; Flood, Lennart (2011-08)
      This paper presents estimates of individuals’ responses in hourly wages to changes in marginal tax rates. Estimates based on register panel data of Swedish households covering the period 1992 to 2007 produce significant ...
    • Teachers in the marketisation of education 

      Falkensjö, Sara (2023-10-26)
      In many parts of the world, marketisation processes in welfare sectors like education are mobilised and legitimised through a discourse professing how market competition will bring about accountability, ...
    • Technical Efficiency During Deregulation of the Urban Bus System in Sweden 

      Salas, Osvaldo (1998)
      This paper compares the levels of technical efficiency reached by bus transport companies during the period 1989-1996, taking into account the deregulation context in which they operate. The empirical evidence reveals that ...
    • Technical efficiency in the Swedish trawl fishery for Norway lobster 

      Eggert, Håkan (2001)
      Reducing fleet capacity in European fisheries is an important objective of the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy. The success of such programmes depends both on the variation and the level of efficiency within the ...
    • Technological Opportunities and Growth in the Natural Resource Sector 

      Lundström, Susanna (2003)
      Both technological and natural resource possibilities seem to evolve in cycles. The “Resource Opportunity Model” in this paper introduces the technological opportunity thinking into natural resource modeling. The natural ...
    • Telling Talent: Essays on Discrimination and Promotion Contests 

      Behler, Timm (2024-03-11)
      Many of our interactions are shaped by the beliefs we hold about the people we interact with. Because of this, we often try to gather information about others. This information shapes our beliefs, which then inform the ...