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Labour supply responses to paid parental leave

Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 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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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK’s approach to social insurance is “basic security”, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high...

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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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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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Social insurance and the marriage market

Persson, Petra - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015

Social insurance is often linked to marriage. I model how such linkage affects the marriage market, and exploit Sweden …. Entry into marriage reflects a demand for survivors insurance up to 50 years before expected payout, especially among … insurance is linked to marriage, marital behavior is an integral component of couples’ strategies to plan for financial security …

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The evolution of the marriage premium in the Swedish labor market 1968-1991

Richardson, Katarina - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2000

only partly explain the wage differentials by marital status. However, I do not find that the marriage premium increases …

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The economics of grief

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lundborg, Petter; Vikström, Johan - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

We study the short-run and long-run economic impact of one of the largest losses that an individual can face; the death of a child. We utilize unique merged registers on the entire Swedish population, combining information on the date and cause of death with parents' labour market outcomes, health...

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Labor market programs, the discouraged-worker effect, and labor force participation

Johansson, Kerstin - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

This paper estimates the macroeconomic effect of labor market programs on labor force participation. Labor market programs could counteract business-cycle variation in the participation rate that is due to the discouraged-worker effect, and they could prevent labor force outflow. An equation...

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Early interventions and disability insurance: experience from a field experiment

Engström, Per; Hägglund, Pathric; Johansson, Per - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

This paper estimates the effects of early interventions in the Swedish sickness insurance system. The aim of the interventions is to screen and, further to, rehabilitate sick listed individuals. We find that the early interventions – in contrast to what is expected – increase the inflow into...

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Can sickness absence be affected by information meetings? Evidence from a social experiment

Johansson, Per; Lindahl, Erica - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2010

During the last decade several empirical studies have stressed the importance of norms and social interactions for explaining sickness absence behavior. In this context public discussions about the intentions of the insurance, and of the rights and duties of the receivers, may be important for...

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