This paper collects and reviews information about routes to retirement and exits from the labor force by older workers in Sweden. It gives a concise survey of rules of the major retirement schemes covering disability, sickness and unemployment. Usinglongitudinal micro data from the period...

Dieser Bericht präsentiert Ergebnisse der quantitativen und qualitativen Evaluation des ESF-Modellprogramms 'Perspektive Wiedereinstieg' (PWE) durch das IAB. Ziel des Programms ist es, den Wiedereinstieg ins Berufsleben nach einer mehr als dreijährigen familienbedingten Erwerbsunterbrechung zu...

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...