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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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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 fathers’ take-up of parental leave benefits, but the gender earnings gap …

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Substitution between temporary parental leave and sickness absence

Persson, Malin - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

This paper studies interrelations between two benefits in the Swedish social insurance system: the sickness insurance and the temporary parental benefit. The level of compensation differs between the two benefits creating an economic incentive for parents to claim temporary parental benefit when...

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Incentive and spill-over effects of supplementary sickness compensation

Hesselius, Patrik; Persson, Malin - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

In 1998 the Swedish national sickness insurance policy changed to allow additional compensation from e.g. collective agreements after the 90th day of absence without a reduction of the public sickness benefit. We estimate the effects of this policy change on the duration of sickness absence for...

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Welfare reforms and labour supply in Italy

Brugiavini, Agar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...

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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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Do labor market programs affect 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 businesscycle variation in the participation rate that is due to the discouraged-worker effect, and they could prevent labor force outflow. An equation that...

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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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207258

Causal effects of subsidized career breaks

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Liljeberg, Linus - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 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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