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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 …
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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. …
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This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...
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. In comparison to West Germans, they are also less inclined to see others as fair or helpful. Implied trajectories can be …
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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 …
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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 …
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division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using …
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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 …
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. Our findings therefore indicate that the estimated impact of parental education on that of their child in Sweden does …
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US, Sweden and Denmark. It assesses the effectiveness and efficiency of activation policies in terms of bringing the …
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