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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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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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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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Age at migration and social integration

Åslund, Olof; Böhlmark, Anders; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

The paper studies childhood migrants and examines how age at migration affects their ensuing integration at the residential market, the labor market, and the marriage market. We use population-wide Swedish data and compare outcomes as adults among siblings arriving at different ages in order to...

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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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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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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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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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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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