Social assistance receipt among immigrants in relation to receipt among natives in Sweden is investigated. A background … interpreted. Most out-payment for social assistance in Sweden refers to foreign born persons although the category makes up 14 …

Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the … groups are quite similar in the two host countries, although earnings are higher in Canada than in Sweden. …

We analyze the impact of family-friendly policies on women?s career breaks due to childbirth in Denmark and Sweden. In … childbirth. Sweden and Denmark are culturally similar and share the same type of welfare state ideology, but differ remarkably in … mothers? behaviour compared to Danish women. We explain this finding by the fact that family-friendly policies in Sweden have …

children reared in two-parent families. Evidence from the United States and Sweden indicates that living in a non-intact family … children?s outcomes in terms of educational attainment and earnings using data from Sweden and the United States. Comparing the … United States and Sweden is interesting because both family structure and public policy environments in the two countries …

division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using …

exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow's Pension System that raised the … attractiveness of marriage compared to cohabitation to identify the effect of marriage. Sweden's rich administrative data sources …

. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …

US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …

between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …