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the UK than in Sweden. We use similar data sets for the two countries to explore whether these cross-national differences … association between parental income and these outcomes, and the associations are stronger in the UK than in Sweden.Therefore, we … weight and height are too weak to account for hardly any fraction of the UK-Sweden difference in intergenerational income …
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before adulthood. We address the question: in Sweden, given its present constellation of social policies and institutions, to …
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...
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Temporary agency employment has grown rapidly in Sweden as in many other countries. The sector was deregulated in the …
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For the purpose of understanding the underlying mechanisms behind intergenerational associations in income and education, recent studies have explored the intergenerational transmission of abilities. We use a large representative sample of Swedish men to examine both intergenerational and...
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Sweden. We investigate whether the association between family background and income in Sweden has changed for cohorts born … life chances in Sweden …
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This study uses an extraordinary Swedish data set to explore the sources of the intergenerational transmission of socioeconomic status. Merging data from administrative sources and censuses, we investigate the association between sons' and daughters' socioeconomic outcomes and those of their...
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comparison group. Our data comes from registers held by Statistics Sweden and the Public Employment Service and covers all …
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between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … much, time on market work than wage-earning women. This raises doubts about whether women in Sweden chose self …
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Using unique register data for Sweden we can match self-employed persons to their employees. We analyze the national …. We find that the probability for immigrants to hire native workers increases with time spent in Sweden. This result …
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