Little is known about self-employment as a career choice for women who marry a high-income spouse. We show that Swedish … women who are married to a high-income spouse are, on average, highly educated and more likely to pursue self … likelihood of self-employment before and after marriage for women who marry a spouse in the top 1, 0.5 and 0.1 percent to those …

Though more than 100 countries have adopted gender quotas, the impacts of these reforms on women’s political leadership … party on municipal party groups — to examine quotas’ effect on women’s selection and survival as leaders within their …, but not more likely to support the reelection of women to the post. Extending this analysis, we show that the quota …

-employed or out of the labour force in Sweden with the help of a unique survey. Sweden is interesting since the share of elderly …-employment among older people may be an effective way to improve their life satisfaction, to increase Sweden's labour supply and to …

We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We … for their time immigration to Sweden. High self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …

in Sweden in 2010 which reduced capital requirements for limited liability companies. For both men and women the reform …, responded to the reform by starting limited liability firms. Small differences emerge when we compare native women with … immigrant women. Finally, it is the wage employed who start a limited liability business in the post-reform period, underlining …

-employment sometimes differs diametrically depending on source. Sweden is occasionally erroneously reported to show the largest increase in …

-employment sometimes differs diametrically depending on source. Sweden is occasionally erroneously reported to show the largest increase in …

This paper presents evidence of how attitudes toward gender roles in the home and market are shaped by Hofstede's six … ancestry. The approach focuses attention on how gender roles are shaped across generations within families. Both influences on … the father's and mother's side are studied. Ancestry from more masculine cultures shape more traditional gender roles on …

affect Sweden. Further, women engage in more climate-mitigating behavior than men,even conditional on climate beliefs. The …It is well-known that men and women differ in their views regarding the severity of climate change,but do they also … Protection Agency (SEPA).Regression analysis confirms that Swedish women believe more strongly than men that climatechange will …