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Synchronous Leisure, Jointness and Household Labor Supply

Hallberg, Daniel - 2002

This paper examines the synchronous leisure of spouses and the extent to which spouses spend time together. The time budget data set used in this paper allows for a distinction between simultaneous time-use of spouses and the actual time that spouses meet. A comparison between couples and...

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Labor Market Programs, the Discouraged-Worker Effect, and Labor Force Participation

Johansson, Kerstin - 2002

panel data (1986-1998) for Sweden's municipalities. The results indicate that labor market programs have relatively large …

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Putting teenagers on the pill: The consequences of subsidized contraception

Grönqvist, Hans - 2009

This paper investigates the consequences of a series of Swedish policy changes beginning in 1989 where different regions started subsidizing the birth control pill. The reforms were significant and applied to all types of oral contraceptives. My identification strategy takes advantage of the...

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Labour supply incentives, income support systems and taxes in Sweden

Forslund, Anders - 2009

Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high …

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Technology, institutions and allocation of time in Swedish households 1920 - 1990

Svensson, Lars - 2008

The modernisation of Swedish households during the twentieth century prompted a considerable productivity growth in household production, which reduced the time input for a fixed volume of routine household work by about 35 per cent 1920-1990. Much of that time was gradually transferred to the...

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Insured by the partner?

Olsson, Marton; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2010

This paper investigates whether the partner's social insurance coverage affects spousal labor supply. Using a reform which increased the sickness insurance coverage for non-government workers, the spousal elasticity of sick days with respect to the partner's benefit is estimated to 0.4....

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Causal effects of subsidized career breaks

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Lindqvist, Linus - 2005

The paper uses a quasi-experimental situation to analyze the effects of career interruptions on future labor market outcomes. Data are generated by a Swedish program that granted career breaks to applicants until funds where exhausted. Comparing approved and declined (due to lack of funds)...

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Do reduced child care prices make parents work more?

Lundin, Daniela; Mörk, Eva; Öckert, Björn - 2007

This paper exploits exogenous variation in the price of child care stemming from a major child care price reform, to … estimate the effects of child care costs on parents’ labour supply. The reform introduced a cap on the price that local … governments could charge parents, and lead to considerable reductions in the price of child care depending on family type and …

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Labour market programmes and labour market outcomes: A study of the Swedish active labour market interventions

Adda, Jérôme; Costa Dias, Mónica; Meghir, Costas; … - 2007

This paper assesses the impact of Swedish welfare-to-work programmes on labour market performance including wages, labour market status, unemployment duration and future welfare-to-work participation. We develop a structural dynamic model of labour supply which incorporates detailed...

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Labour supply responses to paid parental leave

Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - 2012

Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...

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