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Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svalelryd, Helena - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2008

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

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Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits: lessons from recent UK reforms

Blundell, Richard; Meghir, Costas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective – active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...

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The effect of own and spousal parental leave on earnings

Johansson, Elly-Ann - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

This paper investigates the effect of parental leave – both own and spousal – on subsequent earnings using different sources of variation. Using fixed-effect models, and in line with previous results, parental leave is found to decrease each parent’s future earnings. Also spousal leave is...

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Does child spacing affect children’s outcomes? Evidence from a Swedish reform

Pettersson-Lidbom, Per; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

In this paper, we provide evidence of whether child spacing affects the future success of children. As an exogenous source of variation in child spacing, we make use of the introduction of an administrative rule in the parental leave benefit system in Sweden. This rule made it possible for a...

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Education policy and early fertility: lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling

Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in … statistically significant effect on men’s fertility decisions. Our results suggest that the social benefits of changes in education …

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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women

Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …

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Mothers’ income recovery after childbearing

Angelov, Nikolay; Karimi, Arizo - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a … novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits – the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform involved a move from a means-tested maternity …

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

Svensson, Lars - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 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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Ethnic enclaves and the economic success of immigrants - evidence from a natural experiment

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Åslund, Olof - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000

Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic "enclaves" within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...

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