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A Cross-Country Comparison of Attitudes Towards Mothers Working and their Actual Labor Market Experience.
Albrecht, J.W.; Edin, P.A.; Vroman, S.B. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005669560
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Simulating the future of the Swedish baby-boom generations
Klevmarken, N. Anders; Bolin, Kristian; Eklöf, Matias; … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2007
For the purpose of studying the consequences of the ageing of the Swedish population a group of scientists have enlarged the microsimulation model SESIM - originally developed at the Swedish Ministry of Finance - with modules that simulate health status, take up of sickness benefits, retirement,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771040
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy; Holter, Hans A. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700373
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Marriage Stability, Taxation and Aggregate Labor Supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Holter, Hans A; Chakraborty, Indraneel; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level dierences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762003
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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden
M Gelber, Alexander - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011
This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651891
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A Description of Routes out of the Labor Force for Workers in Sweden
Hallberg, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2003
working time from fulltime to part-time employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005644602
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For some mothers more than others: how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother’s employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690421
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Labour Supply Responses to Paid Parental Leave
Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690429
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Estimating labour supply elasticities based on cross-country micro data: A bridge between micro and macro estimates?
Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka; Selin, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2013
We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818677
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For some mothers more than others: how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother’s employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818814