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Björn Anders Gustafsson
Björn Anders Gustafsson
Research Fellow
Göteborg University
Bjorn.Gustafsson@socwork.gu.se externe Webseite CV

Björn A. Gustafsson is senior professor at the department of Social Work, Göteborg University. He received his Ph.D. in economics in 1979 at the same university. Previously he was a senior lecturer in public economics at University College at Örebro. Gustafsson has been commissioned by many public authorities to write special reports or contribute to special reports.

Gustafsson's present research covers empirical studies on social assistance, poverty, the distribution of income and immigrants /ethnic minotiries. He has been involved in various comparative studies. One of his research interest the distribution of income and poverty in China.

Gustafsson has published in many journals including Ageing and Society, American Sociological Review, Asian Economic Journal, Cambridge Journal of Economics, China Quarterly, China Economic Review, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Economics of Transition, European Economic Review, European Journal of Social Work, European Review of Economic History, International Journal of Manpower, International Journal of Social Welfare, Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of International Development, Journal of Population Economics, Labour, Review of Income and Wealth, Scandinavian Journal of Economics and The Developing Economies.

Björn Gustafsson joined IZA as a Research Fellow in October 1999.

IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 16719
Convergence of Inequality Dimensions in China: Income, Consumption, and Wealth from 1988 to 2018
Haiyuan Wan, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Yingfei Wang
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2024, 70 (4), 1089-1115
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16558
How and Why the Gender Pension Gap in Urban China Decreased between 1988 and 2018
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Peng Zhang, Hanrui Jia
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2025, 73 (2), 651–678
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16255
China's Urban Poor – Comparing Twice Poverty between Residents and Migrants in 2013 and 2018
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: China Economic Review, 2023, 80, 102012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16044
In and Out of Privileged and Disadvantaged Neighborhoods in Sweden – On the Importance of Country of Birth
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Torun Österberg
published in: Population, Space and Place, 2023, 29 (4) e2657
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15219
Incomplete Catching Up: Income among Manchurian, Yi and Han People in Rural China from 2002 to 2018
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Yudan Zhang
published in: China Quarterly, 2023, 253, 197 - 213.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14882
Older Immigrants' New Poverty Risk in Scandinavian Welfare States?
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Vibeke Jakobsen, Hanna Mac Innes, Peder J. Pedersen, Torun Österberg
published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2022, 48 (19), 4648 - 4669
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14771
Comparing Receipt of Social Assistance in Urban and Rural China and the Role of Ethnicity
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: China: An International Journal (CIJ), 2022, 20 (3), 122 - 139
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14535
Self-Employment in Rural China: Its Development, Characteristics, and Relation to Income
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Yudan Zhang
published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (1), 136-165
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14531
The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in International Perspective
Terry Sicular, Xiuna Yang, Björn Anders Gustafsson
published in: China & World Economy, 2022, 30 (1), 5 - 27
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14463
Inequality of Opportunity in Household Income, China 2002-2018
Xiuna Yang, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Terry Sicular
published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 69, 101684
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