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Effects of Sharing Parental Leave on Pensioners' Poverty and Gender Inequality in Old Age. A Simulation in IFSIM

Baroni, Elisa - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2010

The poverty outcome in old age is affected by labour market reforms. Using our in house agent based simulation model IFSIM we show that sharing equally the parental leave can increase or reduce poverty among the elderly depending on the macro and behavioural responses that the Reform off-sets....

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Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth

Galor, Oded; Moav, Omer - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2000

This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. This uni...ted theory encompasses the observed evolution of population, technology and income per capita in the long...

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Inkomst och ojämlikhet i Sverige 1951-2002

Johansson, Mats - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2006

This report reports result about income distribution and mean income for the adult population (aged 20 and over) in Sweden during the period 1951-2002. All results refer to individual income before tax. It also explains how the dataset was produced. <p> In the adult population, income distribution...</p>

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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development

Galor, Oded - Brown University, Department of Economics - 2011

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Stability or change in the Swedish Labour Market Regime?

Olofsson, Jonas - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2005

From the late 1970s to the early 1990s Sweden diverted from the rest of Western Europe. The employment rate was high and unemployment was kept very low. But in the early 1990s unemployment started to rise also in Sweden. <p> In this paper the worsened situation for low educated in general, and...</p>

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The importance of age for the reallocation of labor. Evidence from Swedish linked employer-employee data 1986-2002

Gartell, Marie; Jans, Ann-Christin; Persson, Helena - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2008

Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy over a uniquely long time period from 1986 to 2002, we examine how job and worker flows have been distributed across age groups. We find that job and worker flows vary by age groups, not only with respect to magnitude and variation,...

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The College-to-work Transition during the 1990:s. Evidence from Sweden

Gartell, Marie - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2010

This paper analyzes the time it takes for Swedish college graduates to start a full-time job that lasts for six month or more. The focus is on the transition from college-to-work during the period 1991–1999. This period covers both upturns and downturns of the business cycle, providing a...

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Activation in integrated sevices?. Bridging social and employment services in European countries

Minas, Renate - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2009

Activation policies and programs are one of the main instruments to promote the transition from welfare to work and to (re)integrate people depending on social insurance benefits or social assistance into the labor market. However, to make labor market integration sustainable, disadvantaged...

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Cohort Effects on Earnings Profiles: Evidence from Sweden.

Dahlberg, Susanne; Nahum, Ruth-Aïda - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2003

and shape of one´s earnings profile. We estimate cohort size effects on earnings profiles and further assess whether these … there are significant cohort effects on the earnings profile which are fairly consistent across gender but not across … education levels. Large cohorts have a higher overall earnings level than small cohorts. Cohorts born in an upswing of a boom …

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Productivity consequences of workforce ageing - Stagnation or a Horndal effect?

Malmberg, Bo; Lindh, Thomas; Halvarsson, Max - Institutet för Framtidsstudier - 2005

Data linking the production of value-added at the plant level to the individual employees provide an opportunity to deepen the understanding of how the labor force composition relates to productivity performance. In view of the anticipated aging of the workforce in industrialised economies a...

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