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Intergenerational transmission of long-term sick leave

Josephson, Malin; Karnehed, Nina; Lindahl, Erica; … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2013

The aim of this study is to investigate the importance of intergenerational transmission of sick leave using universal Swedish register data on the rate of sickness benefits. We find that there is a positive correlation between parents’ and their children’s sick leave. The child–parent...

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The role of marriage in the causal pathway from economic conditions early in life to mortality

den Berg, Gerard J. van; Gupta, Sumedha - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

This paper analyzes the interplay between early-life conditions and marital status, as determinants of adult mortality. We use individual data from Dutch registers (years 1815-2000), combined with business cycle conditions in childhood as indicators of earlylife conditions. The empirical...

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Inequality in individual mortality and economic conditions earlier in life

van den Berg, Gerard; Lindeboom, Maarten; López, Marta - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

-2000, and we merge these with historical data on macro-economic outcomes and health indicators. We estimate duration models and …

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Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch hunger winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes

S. Scholte, Robert; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Lindeboom, … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

The Dutch Hunger Winter (1944/45) is the most-studied famine in the literature on long-run effects of malnutrition in utero. Its temporal and spatial dermacations are clear, it was severe, it was anticipated, and nutritional conditions in society were favorable and stable before and after the...

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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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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

Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require time and other resources and reflect the accumulated priorities of individuals and couples. We explore how these outcomes have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by...

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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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The gender gap in workplace authority in Sweden 1968-2000 – a family affair?

Bygren, Magnus; Gähler, Michael - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to what extent family factors are responsible for this gap. We find that the gap has narrowed modestly during this period, and identify the life-event of parenthood as a major cause...

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Can you stay at home today? The relationship between economic dependence, parents’ occupation and care leave for sick children

Boye, Katarina - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2014

This is one of only a few studies on the division of care leave for sick children between parents in Sweden and the first to attempt to examine the importance of differences in parents’ work characteristics. The study uses register data for parents with children born in 1999-2002 to analyse...

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The relationship between psychosocial work factors, employee health and organisational production – a systematic review

Lohela Karlsson, Malin; Björklund, Christina; Jensen, Irene - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

work environment and employee health and its impact on organisational production. Searches in several databases were … factors and employee health are predictors of production loss. The evidence was clearest with regard to job strain and … musculoskeletal pain. Although there was some evidence for the impact of psychosocial work factors and the health of employees on self …

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