Björn Anders Gustafsson

Research Fellow

Göteborg University

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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.

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IZA Publications

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 online in: Review of Income and Wealth, 07 January 2024
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
forthcoming in: Economic Development and Cultural Change
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
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14294
Working Beyond the Normal Retirement Age in Urban China and Urban Russia
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ludmila Nivorozhkina, Haiyuan Wan
published in: IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2021, 12 (1)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12880
Social Assistance Receipt among Young Adults Grown up in Different Neighbourhoods of Metropolitan Sweden
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, Torun Österberg
published in: Poverty & Public Policy, 2019, 11 (4), 302 - 324.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12422
Growing into Relative Income Poverty: Urban China 1988 to 2013
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2020, 147 (1), 73 - 94
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12345
Catching up with the West: Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang, Terry Sicular
published in: China Journal, 2020, 84, 102-127
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11144
Older People in Sweden Without Means: On the Importance of Age at Immigration for Being 'Twice Poor'
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Hanna Mac Innes, Torun Österberg
published in: Aging and Society, 2019, 39 (6), 1172-1199
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10423
Age at Immigration Matters for Labor Market Integration: The Swedish Example
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Hanna Mac Innes, Torun Österberg
published in IZA Journal of Development and Migration, 2017, 7:1
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10230
Earnings among Nine Ethnic Minorities and the Han Majority in China's Cities
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang
published in Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, 2017, 22 (3), 525-546
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10127
Charitable Donations by China's Private Enterprises
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang, Gang Shuge, Dai Jianzhong
published in: Economic Systems, 2017, 41 (3), 456 - 469
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9886
Why Do Some Young Adults Not Graduate from Upper Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, Torun Österberg
published in: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2017, 61 (6), 701 - 720
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9837
Residential Segregation from Generation to Generation: Intergenerational Association in Socio-Spatial Context among Visible Minorities and the Majority Population in Metropolitan Sweden
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Katarina Katz, Torun Österberg
published in Population, Space and Place, 2017, 23 (4), e2028
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9018
Are China's Ethnic Minorities Less Likely to Move?
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Xiuna Yang
published in: Eurasian Geography and Economics, 2015, 56 (1), 44-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8595
Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: Social Indicators Research, 2015, 124 (2), 517-535.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8244
Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Hiroshi Sato
published in China Economic Review, 2014, 30, 419-431
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8241
Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina, Haiyuan Wan
published in: China Economic Review, 2015, 35, 248-265
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7970
Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: China Quarterly, 2014, 220 (220), 968-987
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6907
Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China
Deng Quheng, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2013, 59 (3), 416-436
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6129
Disparities in Social Assistance Receipt between Immigrants and Natives in Sweden
Björn Anders Gustafsson
shorter version published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (2), 126-141
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5929
Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh and China
Syeda Shahanara Begum, Deng Quheng, Björn Anders Gustafsson
published in: Journal of Asian Economics, 2012, 23 (1), 73 - 85
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5383
Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Shi Li, Ludmila Nivorozhkina
published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2011, 35 (5), 897-920
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4881
Neighbourhood Child Poverty in Sweden
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Torun Österberg
published in: Peter Saunders and Roy Sainsbury (eds.), Social Security, Poverty and Social Exclusion in Rich and Poorer Countries. International Studies on Social Security volume 16, Intersentia Publishing, 2010
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4857
If Seebohm Rowntree Had Studied Sweden: How Poverty Changed in the City of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Birgitta Jansson
published in: Scandinavian Economic History Review, 2010, 58 (3), 239-260
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4232
Immigrant Child Poverty in Scandinavia: A Panel Data Study
Taryn Ann Galloway, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Peder J. Pedersen, Torun Österberg
revised version published in: Thesia I Garner and Kathleen S Short (eds.): Measures of Poverty, Deprivation, and Economic Mobility (Research on Economic Inequality, 23), 2015, 185 - 219
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3843
Rank, Income and Income Inequality in Urban China
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (3), 497-507
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3791
Temporary and Persistent Poverty among Ethnic Minorities and the Majority in Rural China
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55 (s1), 588-606
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3248
Sweden's Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Mats Johansson, Edward Palmer
revised version published as "The Welfare of Sweden's Old-age Pensioners in Times of Bust and Boom from 1990" in: Ageing and Society, 2009, 29 (4), 539-561
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3185
Economic and Ethnic Polarisation among Children in Sweden’s Three Metropolitan Areas
Danuta Biterman, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Torun Österberg
published in: Schmollers Jahrbuch: Zeitschrift für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften / Journal of Applied Social Science Studies, 2008, 128 (1), 121 - 152
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2758
Social Assistance Receipt and its Importance for Combating Poverty in Urban China
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Deng Quheng
published in: Poverty and Public Policy, 2011, 3(1), Article 10
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2672
Top Incomes in Sweden during Three-Quarters of a Century: A Micro Data Approach
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Birgitta Jansson
published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), 963-976
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2486
Rural People’s Perception of Poverty in China
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ximing Yue
Revised version published as "Rural People's Perception of Income Adequacy in China" in: China Agricultural Economic Review, 2012, 4 (3), 264-280.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2418
Villages where China's Ethnic Minorities Live
Björn Anders Gustafsson, Ding Sai
published in: China Economic Review, 2009, 20 (2), 193-207
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2152
China's Lesser Known Migrants
Deng Quheng, Björn Anders Gustafsson
revised version published as 'The Hukou Converters - China's Lesser Known Rural to Urban Migrants' in: Journal of Contemporary China, 2014, 23, 657-679
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1551
At the Lower End of the Table: Determinants of Poverty among Immigrants to Denmark and Sweden
Kræn Blume Jensen, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Peder J. Pedersen, Mette Verner
published in: Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2007, 33 (3), 373-396
IZA Discussion Paper No. 603
Income Effects from Labor Market Training Programs in Sweden During the 80’s and 90’s
Thomas Andrén, Björn Anders Gustafsson
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2004, 25 (8), 688-713
IZA Discussion Paper No. 184
Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden
Miles Corak, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Torun Österberg
published in: Miles Corak (ed.), Generational Income Mobility in North America and Europe. Cambridge University Press 2004
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