Arbeitspapier
the Political Economy of Wage-Earner funds: Policy Debate and Swedish Experience
A wage-earners' investment fund would receive income from taxation use it to accumulate capital on behalf of wage-earners. The paper briefly surveys the various wage-earner fund proposals advanced in Europe during the 1970s and 1980s. It then analyses the arguments for and against wage-earner funds and shows that the European debate on this issue has involved much more than a purely rational appraisal of the economic costs and benefits of the various policy options. the paper then examines the experience of wage-earner funds in Sweden, the only country in which such funds have actually been established. Institutional aspects of the Swedish funds are discussed, as are their behavior and performance.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 839
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Wirtschaft
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Geistige Schöpfung
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George, Donald A. R.
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Veröffentlichung
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Queen's University, Department of Economics
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Kingston (Ontario)
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1992
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- George, Donald A. R.
- Queen's University, Department of Economics
Time of origin
- 1992