Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/189163 
Year of Publication: 
1992
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 839
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
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.
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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