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Are Married Spouses Insured by their Partners’ Social Insurance?

Olsson, Martin; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

We use a Swedish sickness insurance reform to show that among married couples a partner’s benefit level affects spousal labour supply. The spousal elasticity of sick days with respect to the partner’s benefit is estimated to be 0.4, which is about one-fourth of the own labor supply...

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Maternal Addiction to Parental Leave

Engström, Per; Kolm, Ann-Sofie; Liang, Che-Yuan - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2006

The increased demand for a more equal parental sharing of the responsibilities for children has led many countries to reconstruct their parental leave systems so to provide stronger incentives for fathers to participate in childcare. Father’s quotas are becoming widely spread across Europe....

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Sector Differences in Glass Ceiling in Sweden -Is It Tied to Occupational Segregation?

Özcan, Gülay - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

This paper explores sector differences in how the gender wage gap varies across the wage distribution and the role of occupational segregation in explaining this variation for Sweden. Results indicate that the phenomenon known as the glass ceiling, i.e. larger gender wage differentials at the...

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Is it what you do or where you work that matters most? Gender composition and the gender wage gap revisited

Arai, Mahmood; Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2004

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of gender segregation on wages using matched employer-employee private-sector data from Sweden. The questions that we are interested in examining are two-fold. Has the effect of gender segregation on the gender wage gap been overestimated and...

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Learning by Helping: A Bounded Rationality Model of Mentoring

Arai, Mahmood; Billot, Antoine; Lanfranchi, Joseph - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 1999

Within an organization, a bounded rational principal organizes a promotion test based on a sequence of test regarding candidates' relative performances. We assume the principal to suffer from limited ability to rank the performances, only identifying the best in each test. Furthermore, he...

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Who Takes Care of the Children? The Quantity-Quality Model Revisited

Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 1998

We study the Becker and Lewis (1973) quantity-quality model of children adding an explicit child care time constraint for parents. They can purchase day care or take care of the children themselves. Our results are: (i) If there is a combination of purchased and own care, the effect of income on...

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Post Mortem Reputation, Compensatory Gifts and Equal Bequests

Lundholm, Michael; Ohlsson, Henry - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 1999

The empirical evidence suggests that parents use inter vivos gifts (i.e., transfers of tangible and financial property) to compensate less well off children whereas post mortem bequests are divided equally among siblings. We study a theoretical model assuming, first, that the amounts given is...

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Inter- and Intra-Marriage Premiums Revisited: It’s probably who you are, not who you marry!

Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

as well as access to native spouses’ networks and contacts. However, marriage choice is endogenous, unobserved factors … estimate marriage premiums taking into account individual heterogeneity. This is done for three types of marriages …; intermarriage to natives and intra-marriage with immigrants from home countries or other (non-Swedish) countries. A staggered fixed …

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Femal Representation - Is it Important for Policy Decisions?

Svaleryd, Helena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002

This paper studies whether the degree of female representation in Swedish local councils affects local public expenditure patterns. Theoretically, the individual preferences of elected representatives may impact public expenditure if full policy commitment is not feasible. To empirically...

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Do Gender Quotas Influence Women’s Representation and Policies?

Chen, Li-Ju - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2009

This paper investigates the effect of applying gender quotas on policy decisions. I first examine the effect of gender quotas on the representation of female legislators, study the correlation between gender quotas and different types of government expenditures, and then use quotas as an...

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