This study examines social differences in time use and expenditures and their evolution over time among families with young children. The analysis is based on the KSH Time Use and Household Budget Surveys. Our results show that families with higher educational attainment spend more on items and...

In the employment increase of 12 million of the European Union the number of part time employees accounted for nearly 6 million between 2000 and 2006. A great number of countries try to support the distribution of part-time employment in order to raise or maintain the level of employment and to...

In the employment increase of 12 million of the European Union the number of part time employees accounted for nearly 6 million between 2000 and 2006. A great number of countries try to support the distribution of part-time employment in order to raise or maintain the level of employment and to...

This study examines social differences in time use and expenditures and their evolution over time among families with young children. The analysis is based on the KSH Time Use and Household Budget Surveys. Our results show that families with higher educational attainment spend more on items and...

The incidence and duration of work-absence spells for a sample of Swedish blue-collar workers in 1990 and 1991 are analyzed using the Kaplan-Meier non-parametric estimator, discrete-time hazard regression as well as stratified Cox regression. We focus on the effect of economic incentives, i.e.,...