Social insurance policy

Researchers who have studied social insurance systems have often pointed out the difficulty in studying the supplementary collective bargaining and union income insurance schemes, as there is a ...

In this project, we study the impact of entering parenthood on men’s and women’s mental health.

We follow men and women before and after the birth of their first child and est...

One objective of the Swedish parental leave policy has been to encourage greater equality between mothers and fathers in time spent caring for their newborn. The introduction of “daddy mon...

This project is a part of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inquality, an international collaboration aimed at documenting and understanding the evolution of inequality ove...

The project examines the significance of family formation for differences in the working lives of foreign-born and native-born women and men. Previous research indicates that foreign-born women ...

The purpose of this project is to investigate how the level of social assistance generosity affects the welfare of adults and families. How are adults’ labour market outcomes, social assis...

During 2008 and 2009, IFAU implemented a randomised field experiment with private rehabilitation of long-term sick, in cooperation with the Swedish Social Insurance Agency and the Swedish Public...