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Sweden is by many people considered as a leading country when it comes to giving people the possibilities of combining family and work: the frequency of gainful employment among women is high while the birth rates are still at a relatively high level in a European comparison.
Behind this, there is a family policy which aims at making it possible for parents with small children to work. An importance factor is the parental insurance which makes it possible for parents to stay at home during the first year in their child's life or longer. Another important component in Swedish family policy is extensive publicly subsidised child-care which makes it possible for parents with small children to work.
The research that is being carried out within this area studies what have been the effects of the implemented family policy on for example:
--the degree of employment for women and their career opportunities
--the wage gap between women and men
--the number of births
--children’s development and future success on the labour market
--the equal possibilities for children independent of family background.
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Social rörlighet och lika möjligheter
Adrian Adermon Gunnar Brandén Martin Nybom
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Vårdnadsbidragets effekter på föräldrars inkomstutveckling och barns skolresultat
Caroline Hall Erica Lindahl Sara Roman
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Familjebakgrund och likhet i syskons livsutfall
Erika Forsberg Akib Khan Olof Rosenqvist
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Nyanlända flyktingfamiljers inkomstkällor och deltagande i SFI och förskola
Caroline Hall Erica Lindahl Malin Tallås Ahlzén Anna Thoresson
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Arbetsmarknadseffekter av att få barn i Sverige
Anton Sundberg
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Skilsmässolagstiftning och barns långsiktiga utfall
Edvin Hertegård
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The relationship between intergenerational mobility and equality of opportunity
Adrian Adermon Gunnar Brandén Martin Nybom
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Increased flexibility in childcare arrangements: impacts on parents’ careers and children’s school performance
Caroline Hall Erica Lindahl Sara Roman
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Do sibling correlations in skills, schooling, and earnings vary by socioeconomic background? Insights from Sweden
Erika Forsberg Akib Khan Olof Rosenqvist
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The child penalty in Sweden: evidence, trends, and child gender
Anton Sundberg
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Divorce law reform, family stability, and children's long-term outcomes
Edvin Hertegård
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Paternity leave and child outcomes
Daniel Avdic Arizo Karimi Anna Sjögren Elin Sundberg
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An Examination of the Usability of Identification Strategies by Chetty and Hendren in a European Context
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The role of productivity differences in the gender wage gap
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Schools and students in disadvantaged areas
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Parental leave, norms and wages
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Labour-market drivers of intergenerational earnings persistence
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The long arm of recessions: Evidence from Sweden's great economic crisis