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| Author: | Gustafsson B. Jansson B. |
| Title: | If Seebohm Rowntree had studied Sweden - how poverty changed in the city of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003 |
| Journal: | Scandinavian economic history review
2010 : NOV, VOL. 58:3 p. 239-260 |
| Index terms: | poverty sweden |
| Freeterms: | Gothenburg poverty line seebohm rowntree |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article studies the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of Gothenburg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947 and 1958, as well as more recent information. We determine poverty as living in a household with a disposable income lower than a poverty line that represents a constant purchasing power all years, as well as poverty lines defined as 60% of contemporary median income. Clear reductions of poverty from 1925 to 1947, as well as from 1958 to 1983, are discovered. We argue that an important poverty-reducing mechanism during both periods was narrowing earnings disparities. Further, we maintain that the poverty reduction from the end of the 1950s to the first half of the 1980s was the outcome of improved transfer systems as well as the establishment of pronounced characteristics of present-day Sweden: the dual earner system. |
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