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DiVA - Academic Archive On-linehttp://su.diva-portal.org/dice/atom?query=+organisationId:521&start=0&rows=100&sort=year%20asc2020-01-18T01:02:29.718+01:00 Cecilia von Otter email@example.com Gender-atypical occupational preferences in childhood - findings from a Swedish cohort http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-102658 No abstract available. 2014-04-14T14:46:00.000+02:00 2014-04-29T12:44:34.260+02:00 Cecilia von Otter email@example.com High-status employment among women - a longitudinal study of the role of childhood occupational preferences http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-102659 No abstract available. 2014-04-14T14:48:00.000+02:00 2014-04-29T12:44:13.491+02:00 Jenny Torssander email@example.com Children's Resources and Parents' Survival : The Value of Education, Class, Income, and Geographic Proximity http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94140
Recent research shows that parents' survival is associated with their adult children's education, net of parents' own socioeconomic position. Why children's education is linked to their parents' longevity is, however, an unanswered question.

Utilising a multi-generation register that connects parents to children in the Swedish population, the first part of this paper examines the net associations of children's various socioeconomic resources (education, occupation, and income) and parents' mortality. In subsequent analyses of the role of children's education, five causes of death are distinguished (circulatory disease mortality, overall cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and prostate cancer). The second part of the analysis focuses on the geographic distance between children and parents and how distance interacts with the association between children's education and parents' survival.

The results show net associations between all included indicators of children's socioeconomic position and parents' mortality risk, with the clearest association for education. Children's education is significantly associated with all examined causes of deaths except prostate cancer. Breast cancer mortality is negatively related to offspring's education but not the mothers' own education. Lastly, distance to parents does not interact with the association between children's education and parents' mortality.

To conclude, children's education seems to be a key factor in comparison to other dimensions of socioeconomic position in the offspring generation. This suggests that explanations that are linked to, e.g., behavioural norms or knowledge and support with health care contacts, are more plausible than, e.g., access to material resources. However, distance does not interact with this association, which may point towards non-causal explanations, i.e., children's schooling captures unmeasured parental characteristics or circumstances. Alternatively, geographic factors do not prevent parents from benefitting from their adult children's resources.
 2013-09-27T13:39:00.000+02:00 2013-09-27T15:14:01.074+02:00 Susan Niknami email@example.com The Effect of Relative Income Differences on Crime : Evidence from Micro-data http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-72479
This is the first study to examine the effect of relative income differences on criminal behavior. I use rich register data that encompass detailed information on individual convictions, labor market as well as demographic characteristics. The results show that there is a positive effect on the propensity to commit property crime. The effect is small and mainly driven by past offenders, low educated and young individuals. I only find weak evidence that relative income differences increases the likelihood to commit violent crime. The empirical analysis however reveals that differences in gross labor earnings are more strongly related to crime than disparities in disposable income.
 2012-02-13T11:20:00.000+01:00 2012-02-13T16:03:00.715+01:00 Susan Niknami email@example.com Intergenerational Transmission of Education among Female Immigrants http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-72484
This paper uses high-quality register data to perform one of the first analyzes of the intergenerational transmission of education among immigrant mothers and their daugthers. The paper also raises several methodological points related to functional form and measurement error in immigrants' education.

The results show that the persistence is slightly lower among immigrants compared to natives, and that the relationship is weaker among those who start out disadvantaged. I find large variations across different immigrant groups, but these differences are partly explained by the fact that groups belong to different parts of the educational distribution.
 2012-02-13T11:40:00.000+01:00 2012-02-13T16:03:55.996+01:00 Frida Rudolphi email@example.com Ever declining inequalities? : Primary and secondary effects in Sweden at the transition to upper secondary and higher education for students born in 1972-1990 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63210 No abstract available. 2011-10-12T13:59:43.937+02:00 2011-10-12T14:59:46.815+02:00 Frida Rudolphi firstname.lastname@example.com Class differences in educational and occupational aspirations and subsequent educational success among Swedish youth http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63212 No abstract available. 2011-10-12T14:01:22.438+02:00 2011-10-12T15:01:04.321+02:00 Karin Halldén email@example.com Attaining Authority : Cross-National Variation in the Gender Gap in High Authority Positions http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62073
Authority positions commonly bring with them significant types of power, for example, influence over setting wages and granting promotions. Hence, equal access for men and women to such positions is of considerable importance. Although Nordic countries are typically depicted as the most gender equal in the world, several studies suggest that they rank low relative to other industrial countries with respect to gender equality in positions of workplace authority and women's chances of obtaining the highest white-collar jobs. The aim of this paper is to study the extent to which women's opportunities to attain positions of high labour market authority is associated with maternal employment policies, such as paid parental leave and part-time work. The analyses were conducted using cross-sectional data from the 2005 and 2006 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) for 25 countries. The results showed that a high proportion of women working long part-time hours was related to larger gender differences in the attainment of high authority positions, which disadvantaged women. However, there was no association between paid parental leave and the gender gap in positions of workplace authority.
 2011-09-08T16:47:57.233+02:00 2011-09-08T17:11:23.191+02:00 Karin Halldén firstname.lastname@example.com Taking Training to Task : Sex of the Immediate Supervisor and Men's and Women's Time in Initial On-the-Job Training http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62069
The importance of applying a firm-level perspective when estimating labor market stratification by gender and ethnicity has been established in the literature. Drawing on theories of homophily, homosocial reproduction, and human capital theory, this study examines the effects of the sex of the immediate supervisor on the length of time men and women spend in initial on-the-job training (OJT). Analyses were conducted using cross-sectional data from the 2000 Swedish Level of Living Survey and matched employer registry data. The results show that men receive longer initial OJT compared with women, but men's time in initial OJT is independent of the sex of the supervisor. For women in the private sector, the chances of receiving long initial OJT are higher if the immediate supervisor is a man. There is therefore little evidence supporting gender discriminatory practices in line with homophily and homosocial reproduction. The findings are discussed in terms of gender differences with regard to the firm resources available to male and female supervisors and dissimilarities in the skill levels and complexity of the jobs men and women supervise.
 2011-09-08T16:19:23.666+02:00 2011-09-08T17:11:21.649+02:00 Karin Halldén email@example.com Asaf Levanon Tamar Kricheli-Katz Where Do Working Mothers Fare the Worst : A Comparative Study on Wage Penalties for Motherhood by Skill http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62072
In light of the discussion on the difficulties experienced by parents who combine work and family demands, many scholars have examined the wage penalties associated with parenthood for women. Previous research shows that considerable variation exists regarding the strength of the motherhood wage penalty across countries. Scholars have partially attributed these disparities to the differences in the national policies supporting maternal employment. Although such policies are usually understood to be complementary, their effects on employees, especially on those in jobs with diverse skill levels, may differ. Using longitudinal data from the 1994–2001 European Community Household Panel (ECHP), we describe the associations between different maternal employment policies and the wage penalties for mothers by skill. With the important caveat that we only have information for 10 countries, findings from fixed-effect models indicate that, after adjusting for female participation in the labor force, a high proportion of small children in publicly funded childcare facilities is associated with a modest decrease in the motherhood wage penalty, regardless of skill level. By contrast, paid maternity leave is weakly associated with an increase in the motherhood wage gap only for women in less skilled jobs. Our findings highlight the importance of accounting for skill as well as the significance of separating maternity leave and the provision of public childcare when studying cross-country variations in women' labor market outcomes.

 2011-09-08T16:41:45.694+02:00 2011-09-08T17:11:22.743+02:00 Karin Halldén firstname.lastname@example.com Asaf Levanon Tamar Kricheli-Katz Where Do Working Mothers Fare the Worst? A Comparative Study on Wage Penalties for Motherhood by Skill http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62078
In light of the discussion on the difficulties experienced by parents who combine work and family demands, many scholars have examined the wage penalties associated with parenthood for women. Previous research shows that considerable variation exists regarding the strength of the motherhood wage penalty across countries. Scholars have partially attributed these disparities to the differences in the national policies supporting maternal employment. Although such policies are usually understood to be complementary, their effects on employees, especially on those in jobs with diverse skill levels, may differ. Using longitudinal data from the 1994–2001 European Community Household Panel (ECHP), we describe the associations between different maternal employment policies and the wage penalties for mothers by skill. With the important caveat that we only have information for 10 countries, findings from fixed-effect models indicate that, after adjusting for female participation in the labor force, a high proportion of small children in publicly funded childcare facilities is associated with a modest decrease in the motherhood wage penalty, regardless of skill level. By contrast, paid maternity leave is weakly associated with an increase in the motherhood wage gap only for women in less skilled jobs. Our findings highlight the importance of accounting for skill as well as the significance of separating maternity leave and the provision of public childcare when studying cross-country variations in women' labor market outcomes.

 2011-09-08T17:11:51.807+02:00 2011-09-08T17:11:51.807+02:00 Elin Olsson email@example.com Sex Compositional Effects in School Classes : Do School Subject and Parent's Education Matter? http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-56328
This study examines whether and how the sex composition in co-educational school classes affects grades. Differences between typical male and female school subjects, and interactions between the com-position of students' sex and the composition of parents' education within a school class are taken into account, something previous studies have largely neglected. Also, selection problems in previous studies are for the most part avoided here by studying classrooms with a fairly random distribution of the sexes.

Analyses are made on a large data material based on national registers of pupils in their last year of Swedish compulsory school (n = 43,221). Multilevel models with pupils nested in school classes within schools show that sex composition in school classes does influence teacher-assigned grades in several subjects. For boys, the proportion of girls is negative in typical female subjects, while it has no effect in typical male subjects. Girls are disadvantaged by the proportion of boys when the boys have highly educated parents. The proposed explanation for the results is that sex composition effects are due to negative social comparisons with the other sex. The finding that the effects of sex composition interact with parents' education and vary by school subject might explain the mixed results in previous studies.

 2011-04-13T17:18:09.555+02:00 2011-05-10T11:31:23.360+02:00 Patrik Gränsmark firstname.lastname@example.com Anna Dreber Christer Gerdes firstname.lastname@example.com Beaty Queens and batling Knights : Riks Taking and Attractiveness in Chess http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-44235
In this study we explore the relationship between attractiveness and risk taking in chess. We examine whether people use riskier strategies when playing with attractive opponents, whether this affects performance, and whether there are gender differences in the reaction to an attractive opponent. We use a large international panel dataset on chess competitions which includes a control for the players' skill in chess. We combine this data with results from a large survey on an online labor market where participants were asked to rate the photos of 626 expert chess players. Our results suggest that male chess players choose significantly riskier strategies when playing against an attractive female opponent, although this does not improve their performance. Women's strategies are not affected by the attractiveness of the opponent.
 2010-11-04T09:28:00.000+01:00 2010-11-04T10:58:09.982+01:00 Patrik Gränsmark email@example.com Strategic Learning in Repeated Chess Games http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-44237
This paper examines if expert chess players in repeated chess games with the same opponent learn about the opponent's type and adapt their choice of future strategies accordingly. Additionally, it shows how matching background characteristics such as gender, age, nationality and risk preferences affect the choice of strategy. The study employs a large international panel dataset with controls for age, gender, nationality, risk preferences and playing strength whereby the latter accounts for productivity. The findings show that chess players do indeed learn about the opponent's type and that more recent outcomes have a greater influence than earlier outcomes. Moreover, players with similar background characteristics coordinate better than players of different gender or nationality but this difference decreases as the players learn about their opponent's type. This suggests that screening discrimination decreases when players learn about the type of the opponent.
 2010-11-04T09:31:00.000+01:00 2010-11-04T10:58:10.587+01:00 Patrik Gränsmark email@example.com Gender Differences in Time Preference and Inconsistency Among Expert Chess Ppalyers http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-44240
This paper presents empirical findings on gender differences in time preference and time inconsistency which are based on international chess data from 1.5 million expert games. Controls are included for age, nationality and playing strength where the latter accounts for gender differences in productivity. Impatience is measured by considering preferences for different game durations. Inconsistency is measured by exploiting the 40th move time control, where over-consumption of thinking time is inefficient. The results reveal that men are more impatient while women are more time inconsistent. Moreover, the difference in impatience increases with expertise while the difference in inconsistency decreases.
 2010-11-04T09:36:00.000+01:00 2010-11-17T16:06:22.740+01:00 Martin Hällsten email@example.com The Class-Origin Wage Gap Revisited: Supply and Demand Factors http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-37311
The wage gap between individuals of advantaged and disadvantaged class origin is analysed using unique population-level matched employer employee data from Sweden. Using an unusually detailed measure of education, the remaining wage gap is considerably smaller compared to standard specifications. The wage gap is also influenced by geographic segregation. The wage gap varies considerably across industries and occupations, and the reasons for this are discussed. It is small in the public sector, and also smaller in large compared to small private firms, suggesting that bureaucracy may act as a leveller.
 2010-02-22T15:51:00.000+01:00 2010-03-16T16:01:52.046+01:00 Martin Hällsten email@example.com The Structure of Educational Decision-making and Consequences for Inequality: A Swedish Test Case http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-37312
Inequality in educational attainment by class background arises because of differences in achievement or in decision making. A unique Swedish population level database on university applications and individuals' rank of different programs is used to analyze class differences in preferences for different program characteristics using a rank order logit estimator. Compared to individuals from service class backgrounds, individuals from manual labor class backgrounds choose programs of shorter duration with lower grade point requirements closer to their parents' home. Children from the service class instead prefer programs with higher expected earnings and avoid non-traditional institutions. Taken together, the differences in degree choice lead to non-neglible differences in expected earnings levels and expected unemployment risks further on.
 2010-02-22T15:53:00.000+01:00 2010-03-16T16:01:50.985+01:00 Martin Hällsten email@example.com Is It Ever Too Late to Study? The Economic Returns on Late Tertiary Degrees in Sweden http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-37314
This paper addresses lifelong learning in tertiary education and its economic returns. Swedish tertiary education is open to older students, and labor market legislation supports employees who take a leave to study. The longitudinal data used for this analysis is based on annual population level registers from 1985 to 2003. Matching techniques are combined with panel data methods to account for non-random selection. Late degrees were found to increase the earnings rank by 15 percentiles on average. The largest effects were found in the lower parts of the earnings distribution.
 2010-02-22T15:57:00.000+01:00 2010-03-16T17:11:38.678+01:00 Lalaina Hirvonen email@example.com Accounting for Intergenerational Earnings Persistence : Can We Distinguish Between Education, Skills, and Health? http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-37279
This paper illustrates the difficulty in disentangling the underlying channels of intergenerational earnings persistence by means of path analysis and recursive models. On closer examination, these models manifest their shortcomings as regards accounting for how parental earnings have a direct impact on their offspring's earnings, but also have an effect through other factors such as education, skills and health. The estimated effects of these mediating factors are likely to capture the influence of other mechanisms not taken into account in the analysis. Nonetheless, the results suggest that education is the most important mechanism in the earnings transmission process, although it is sensitive to the inclusion of other covariates and the order in which these are entered into the equation. Nonlinear specifications suggest that the effect of a father's earnings on his son's has the greatest impact primarily through education and IQ in the upper middle categories of the earnings distribution of the fathers, while health status is of secondary importance.

 2010-02-08T14:42:00.000+01:00 2010-02-25T13:37:14.585+01:00 Lalaina Hirvonen email@example.com The Effect of Children on Earnings Using Exogenous Variation in Family Size : Swedish Evidence http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-37278
This paper analyses the impact of having one more child on the outcomes of men and women in the labour market. This issue is known to be complicated as the decision to have (more) children is also dependent on current and future labour market prospects. To overcome this endogeneity problem, I use the exogenous variations of sex composition of the first two children, an identification strategy originally applied by Angrist and Evans (1998) on U.S. data. I use a rich Swedish register data set to explore the effect of children on fathers' and mothers' labour market outcomes from 1980-2005, and separate the effects of children on participation and earnings. This study identifies long-run and short-run effects, and investigates whether the effects differ over time. This latter issue is particularly interesting for Sweden as family policies have changed significantly over the years. My findings suggest that having an additional child has a stronger negative impact on earnings than on participation. However, mothers experience a substantial but not complete recovery in earnings in the long-run. These results remain stable despite the rapid expansion of Swedish family policies.
 2010-02-08T13:55:00.000+01:00 2010-02-25T13:37:13.957+01:00 Sara Brolin Låftman firstname.lastname@example.com Bitte Modin email@example.com School-related stress and subjective health : Effort and reward among school pupils http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-31625
The present study analyses the relationship between effort and reward in school and the subjective health of ninth grade pupils in Stockholm, Sweden. Effort is constructed from two items: the pupil's own assessment of his or her effort in very difficult school tasks, and whether he or she chooses to do something else if the school task is perceived as boring. Reward is operationalized in two alternate ways: as school marks, and as appreciation from teachers. The data were derived from the Stockholm School Survey (Stockholmsenkäten) of 2004, a survey of all pupils in the greater Stockholm area who attended the ninth and final grade of comprehensive school in 2004 (n=8,695). Multilevel linear regression analyses were conducted. The main findings are that both effort and reward are positively related to pupils' subjective health, and that high effort in particular is associated with better subjective health. Low effort combined with low reward in terms of school marks is associated with the poorest health, although this is largely accounted for by confounding variables. Low effort and low reward in terms of little appreciation from teachers are associated with the poorest health also when potential confounders are controlled for. Contextual effects on subjective health are found for girls but not for boys.
 2009-11-23T09:35:00.000+01:00 2009-11-24T09:28:58.571+01:00 Richard Baltander firstname.lastname@example.com Return to Education for the Deaf/Hearing Impaired and the Blind/Visually Impaired, 1991-2000 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-26632
Mincer-equations are estimated for the deaf/hearing impaired and the blind/visually impaired. The results show that the estimates of the coefficient for the education variable are lower than for a comparison group, and that for several years it is not statistically significant that education for the blind/visually impaired has a positive effect on labour income.
 2009-04-06T10:27:59.144+02:00 2010-01-26T10:15:07.992+01:00 Richard Baltander email@example.com Labour Income Distribution for the Deaf/Hearing Impaired and the Blind/Visually Impaired in Sweden, 1991-2000 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-26645
Incomes of the deaf/hearing impaired and the blind/visually impaired are studied. They are compared with the income distribution for a comparison group. The results show that the income distribution is most unequal for the blind/visually impaired and that the average and median incomes are clearly lowest for this group. One explanation is a high share of zero earners.
 2009-04-06T10:40:22.152+02:00 2010-01-26T10:15:24.196+01:00 Richard Baltander email@example.com Wages and Wage Distributions for the Deaf/Hearing Impaired and the Blind/Visually Impaired with and without Wage Subsidy http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-26647
Mincer-equations with a wage subsidy dummy are estimated and wage distributions are studied for the deaf/hearing impaired and the blind/visually impaired. The coefficient for the wage subsidy dummy is discussed. From the wage distributions for full-time employed people we see that employed people with a wage subsidy have a more compact wage distribution compared to employed people without a wage subsidy.
 2009-04-06T10:50:47.469+02:00 2010-01-26T10:15:40.408+01:00 Richard Baltander firstname.lastname@example.com Employment for the Deaf/Hearing Impaired and the Blind/Visually Impaired during the 1990s http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-26652
Employment rates for the deaf/hearing impaired and the blind/visually impaired are compared with a group that represents the Swedish population. The results show that the pattern and the level of the employment rate are similar for the deaf/hearing impaired and the comparison group. The employment rate is clearly lower for the blind/visually impaired, however.
 2009-04-06T11:04:01.697+02:00 2010-01-26T10:15:53.524+01:00 Katarina Boye How children impact on parent's division of labour : A longitudinal study of changes in housework following the birth of a child http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-25507 No abstract available. 2008-10-16T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:29:07.988+01:00 Pernilla Andersson Happiness and Health: Well-Being among the Self-Employed http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-22903 No abstract available. 2006-09-28T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:24:27.472+01:00 Pernilla Andersson Eskil Wadensjö Wage-Earners who Become Self-Employed: The Impact of Income and wages http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-22902 No abstract available. 2006-09-28T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:24:27.070+01:00 Pernilla Andersson Self-Employed Immigrants in Sweden: Are They as Successful as Natives? http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-22904 No abstract available. 2006-09-28T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:24:27.959+01:00 Pernilla Andersson Determinants of Exits from Self-Employment http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-22905 No abstract available. 2006-09-28T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:24:28.512+01:00 Helena Holmlund Intergenerational Mobility and Assortative Mating : Effects of an Educational Reform http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-22723 No abstract available. 2006-05-24T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:24:02.277+01:00 Helena Holmlund Mikael Lindahl Erik Plug Estimating Intergenerational Schooling Effects : A Comparison of Methods http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-22722 No abstract available. 2006-05-24T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:24:01.725+01:00 Helena Persson Gabriella Sjögren The growth and survival of establishments: does gender segregation matter? http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23356 No abstract available. 2004-09-30T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:25:24.330+01:00 Gabriella Sjögren Jenny Säve-Söderbergh Risk and overconfidence : Gender differences in financial desicion-making as revealed in the TV game-show Jeopardy http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23357 No abstract available. 2004-09-30T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:25:24.887+01:00 Gabriella Sjögren Tournaments and unfair treatment http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23354 No abstract available. 2004-09-30T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:25:23.387+01:00 Gabriella Sjögren Late careers in Sweden between 1970-2000 http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23355 No abstract available. 2004-09-30T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:25:23.827+01:00 Marie Evertsson The Reproduction of Gender : Housework and Attitudes Towards Gender Equality in the Home Among Swedish Boys and Girls http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23389 No abstract available. 2004-01-27T12:00:00.000+01:00 2010-01-13T17:25:30.335+01:00 Kent Friberg Wage and Price Determination in the Private Sector in Sweden http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23466 No abstract available. 2004-11-23T12:00:00.000+01:00 2010-01-13T17:25:39.593+01:00 Kent Friberg Intersectoral Wage Linkages in Sweden http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23465 No abstract available. 2004-11-23T12:00:00.000+01:00 2010-01-13T17:25:39.015+01:00 Kent Friberg Real Wage Determination in the Swedish Engineering industry http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23464 No abstract available. 2004-11-23T12:00:00.000+01:00 2010-01-13T17:25:38.376+01:00 Johanna Kumlin Shifts in horizontal sex segregation in the Swedish labour market between 1990 and 2003 : A descriptive study http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24246 No abstract available. 2007-05-15T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:27:03.190+01:00 Johanna Kumlin Occupational shifts across sex-type boundaries in the Swedish labour market http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24249 No abstract available. 2007-05-15T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:27:03.629+01:00 Åsa Olli Segendorf Recruiting Through Networks : Wage Premiums and Rewards to Recommenders http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24258 No abstract available. 2005-09-30T14:00:00.000+02:00 2014-10-02T15:22:42.539+02:00 Åsa Olli Segendorf Wage Effects of Search Methods for Immigrants and Natives in Sweden http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24260 No abstract available. 2005-09-30T14:00:00.000+02:00 2014-10-14T13:36:31.039+02:00 Anders Böhlmark Mikael Lindahl The Impact of School Choice on Pupil Achievement, Segregation and Costs: Swedish Evidence http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24261 No abstract available. 2007-05-18T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:27:06.486+01:00 Anders Böhlmark Age at Immigration and School Performance: A Siblings Analysis Using Swedish Register Data http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24262 No abstract available. 2007-05-18T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:27:07.110+01:00 Åsa Olli Segendorf Job Search by Immigrants in Sweden http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24259 No abstract available. 2005-09-30T14:00:00.000+02:00 2014-10-02T15:24:56.020+02:00 Anders Böhlmark Integration of Childhood Immigrants in the Short and in the Long Run: Swedish Evidence http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24263 No abstract available. 2007-05-18T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:27:07.671+01:00 Krister Sund Estimating Peer Effects in Swedish High School using School, Teacher, and Student Fixed Effects http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24470 No abstract available. 2007-09-20T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-14T12:20:04.641+01:00 Krister Sund Detracking Swedish compulsory schools – any losers, any winners? http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-24469 No abstract available. 2007-09-20T12:00:00.000+02:00 2010-01-13T17:27:27.318+01:00 Ingrid Esser Welfare Regimes, Production Regimes and Employment Commitment : A Multi-level analysis of Twelve OECD countries http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23922 No abstract available. 2005-05-26T15:11:00.000+02:00 2014-10-14T13:25:21.779+02:00 Ingrid Esser Unemployment Insurance and Work Values in Twenty-Three Welfare States http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-23923 No abstract available. 2005-05-26T15:11:00.000+02:00 2014-10-14T13:26:20.290+02:00 Hrvoje Kap Equality of opportunity and access to the labour market in vocational education and training - a comparative approach http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-119478 No abstract available. 2015-08-14T13:10:00.000+02:00 2015-08-17T16:54:40.013+02:00 Hrvoje Kap Comparison of admission to post-secondary vocational education and training http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-119479 No abstract available. 2015-08-14T13:13:00.000+02:00 2015-08-17T16:54:40.286+02:00 Per Engzell What Do Books in the Home Proxy For? : A Cautionary Tale http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-135794
A large body of work in the social sciences relies on proxy variables to capture the influence of an unobserved regressor. Assuming that measurement error is well approximated by a classical model implying bias toward the null, proxies that explain a larger amount of variance in the regression are routinely preferred. I show how this reasoning can mislead, examining a widely used predictor of student achievement: the self-reported number of books at home. Underreporting by low achievers and endogeneity of parental inputs both contribute an upward bias, large enough to overturn the classical attenuation result and lead to spurious inferences. The findings serve as a caution against overreliance on standard assumptions and cast doubt on predictive power as a criterion for proxy selection.
 2016-11-23T13:53:00.000+01:00 2016-12-19T16:09:59.283+01:00 Per Engzell Mathieu Ichou Unto a Better Land? : Immigrant Selectivity, Transnational Status Loss, and Subjective Economic Well-Being http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-135796
There is mounting interest in immigrant "selectivity"—how migrants differ from non-migrants— and how this might impact their host country assimilation. The authors argue that observed selection as proxied by education level is largely explained by access to social and economic resources in the source country, and discuss implications of this proposition. In particular, much of the "drive" or "optimism" commonly attributed to immigrant minorities may stem not so much from self-selection on innate traits—a frequent speculation—as from a desire to recuperate social status held prior to migration. To assess this possibility, an empirical analysis taps the subjective economic well-being of over 5,000 immigrants from 140 national origins in 20 destination countries using European Social Survey data. As predicted, those higher educated by origin country than host country standards make more dismal assessments of their current social status and financial situation than do other immigrants in otherwise similar circumstances.
 2016-11-23T13:58:00.000+01:00 2016-12-19T16:12:10.369+01:00 Per Engzell Second Generation Success : What Do Positively Selected, Low-Status Immigrants Transmit to their Children? http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-135795 No abstract available. 2016-11-23T13:55:00.000+01:00 2017-01-23T09:31:01.205+01:00 Felipe Estrada email@example.com Olof Bäckman Anders Nilsson THE DARKER SIDE OF EQUALITY? THE DECLINING GENDER GAP IN CRIME: HISTORICAL TRENDS AND AN ENHANCED ANALYSIS OF STAGGERED BIRTH COHORTS http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-125383
In this article, we elucidate the way the gender gap in crime has changed in Sweden since the mid-19th century. The analysis is directed at theft offences and violent crime. The long historical perspective provides a background to our analysis that focuses on the period since the 1980s. Our principal data are comprised of the registered offending of different birth cohorts. Most of the findings from our study refute the hypothesis that the declining gender gap in crime is due to an increasing number of women committing offences. Instead, the most important driving forces inrecent times have been a powerful decline in the number of men convicted of theft crime and a netwidening effect causing a rise in womens' convictions for violence.
 2016-01-11T11:30:00.000+01:00 2017-12-01T00:06:03.509+01:00 Sara Kjellsson email@example.com Class-specific gender gaps in health : The role of gender and working conditions within classes http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-148742 No abstract available. 2017-11-07T19:01:00.000+01:00 2017-11-30T13:31:56.010+01:00 Sara Kjellsson email@example.com Class-specific gender gaps in musculoskeletal pain: Sweden 1974-2010 : Have gender differences in pain changed over time and equally across social classes? http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-149174 No abstract available. 2017-11-20T14:17:00.000+01:00 2018-01-12T16:52:06.165+01:00 Roujman Shahbazian The Consequence of Birth Spacing for First- and Second-Born Siblings' Long-Term Income Rank : A Restrictive Two-Child Family Approach http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-155149 No abstract available. 2018-04-12T15:03:00.000+02:00 2018-04-16T09:34:20.537+02:00 Roujman Shahbazian Under the Influence of Our Older Brother and Sister : The Association between Sibling Gender Configuration and STEM Degrees http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-155154 No abstract available. 2018-04-12T15:16:00.000+02:00 2018-04-16T09:35:36.836+02:00 Roujman Shahbazian Sex Composition, Birth Order and Spacing : A New Approach to Studying Gendered Sibling Effects on Adult Outcome http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-155151 No abstract available. 2018-04-12T15:13:00.000+02:00 2018-04-16T09:35:02.165+02:00 Fredrik Sivertsson Anders Nilsson Olof Bäckman Participation and Frequency in Criminal Convictions across 25 Successive Birth Cohorts : Collectivity, Polarization, or Convergence? http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-159969 No abstract available. 2018-09-12T10:26:00.000+02:00 2018-09-13T11:12:21.147+02:00 Daniel Fredriksson email@example.com Political Determinants of Public Employment Service Expenditures : A Dynamic Perspective on Distributive Conflict http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-162127
The purpose of this study is to analyse determinants of spending on public employment services (PES). Contrary to common assumptions, which state that the extent to which countries spend on PES is mostly determined by structural factors, the main hypothesis is that it is relevant to consider partisan politics in relation to PES spending. Political parties - where the study distinguishes left, confessional and secular centrist-right parties - are thus expected to impact PES spending beyond structural-economic determinants. It is also hypothesised that left parties have indirect effects on confessional parties through electoral competition. Furthermore, it is acknowledged that the influence of partisan politics may differ across time. The analysis includes 17 welfare states between 1985 and 2011, and utilises error correction models (ECM). The results indicate that partisan politics and electoral competition are relevant for the development of PES spending, but that the turn to activation in many welfare states in the late 1990s reduced the salience of partisan politics, particularly with respect to left party strength.
 2018-11-25T10:45:00.000+01:00 2018-11-28T10:29:09.729+01:00 Daniel Fredriksson email@example.com Moving Targets : Target Groups of Active Labour Market Policies and Transitions to Employment in Europe http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-162126
This study analyses the link between active labour market policies (ALMP) and transitions to employment across the European Union between 2003 and 2013. The study draws on recurrent debates related to labour market mobility among the unemployed and those outside the labour force and asks to which extent ALMPs increase employment in the two groups. I separately analyse the relationship between employment transitions and core programs directed towards the registered unemployed; peripheral programs that target the inactive part of the working age population; and mixed programs targeting both groups. Multi-level event-history analysis is used to analyse individual transitions to employment, utilising new macro level data on active labour market policies and individual level data from the European Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC). The results show that spending on core programs is positively associated with employment transitions among the unemployed, and their probabilities to get a job is positively associated with all three types of interventions analysed in the study: training, job creation and employment subsidies. Peripheral programs are unrelated to transition probabilities among the inactive. However, the probabilities of the inactive entering into employment is positively associated with job creation and employment subsidies, but only in active labour market programs that also include the unemployed. This suggests that countries should be wary when constructing peripheral labour market programs, since some interventions seem to have no apparent effects when solely targeting the inactive.
 2018-11-25T11:03:00.000+01:00 2018-11-28T10:35:57.132+01:00 Daniel Fredriksson firstname.lastname@example.com Reducing Unemployment? : Examining the Interplay Between Active Labour Market Policies http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-162128
Active labour market policies (ALMP) are important tools that welfare states utilise to influence the labour market. This study analyses whether different types of active labour market policies are related to reduced unemployment, and especially if there is evidence for interdependencies between policies. The policies examined are public employment services (PES), training programs and job creation schemes. PES is singled out as a crucial factor that mediates the effects of other labour market policies, both active and passive. The study examines 19 welfare states between the years 1985 and 2012, using error correction modelling (ECM). The results indicate that training programs reduce unemployment in the short run, whereas long-term impacts are less apparent for all policy types, at least when direct effects are considered. However, there is important interplay between policies, where PES is found to have indirect effects on other policy types. PES spending tends to improve the effects of job creation and training programs and lessen the effects of unemployment insurance on unemployment.
 2018-11-25T10:51:00.000+01:00 2018-11-28T10:39:20.979+01:00 Linus Andersson Do the formative aspects of education really matter for educational assortative mating? Cues from a natural experiment http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-164760
Individuals tend to partner with people of a similar educational level as themselves. According to the matching hypothesis, exposure to education leads to similarity in taste and cultural cognitive schemas, causing educationally similar partners to form unions. In this study, I ask if such formative content of education matters for educational homogamy, net of other forces. Evaluating this claim is often difficult because educational level also beget human resources and because marriage markets are structured by educational level - aspects which also lead to educational homogamy. I approach this issue using a semi-experimental design that tentatively holds constant marriage markets and human capital related to education. Using a national reform, I compare the educational assortative mating of upper secondary vocational students who studied under a theoretical curriculum to that of vocational students not exposed to a theoretical curriculum. The reform provides variability in formative education. Yet, it induces no variation in competitive human capital and marriage markets, as students obtain comparable human capital within the same standard upper secondary track. Therefore, effects may be attributed to matching on formative content of the added theoretical curriculum. Before and after adjusting for selection, I find no effect of an added theoretical curriculum on partnering. The results are discussed in terms of the ambiguity of formative education as an explanation for educational assortative mating.
 2019-01-18T09:53:00.000+01:00 2019-01-21T10:16:04.999+01:00 Laurie C. Maldonado Rense Nieuwenhuis Single Parents in Context http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-168837 No abstract available. 2019-05-10T13:34:23.966+02:00 2019-05-13T13:06:41.508+02:00 Emma von Essen Jonas Karslsson A matter of transient anonymity : Discrimination by gender and foreignness in online auctions http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-88185 No abstract available. 2013-03-08T15:11:00.000+01:00 2019-11-01T11:10:52.461+01:00 Charlotta Magnusson Flexible time – but is the time owned? Family friendly and family unfriendly work arrangements, occupational gender composition and wages: a test of the mother-friendly job hypothesis in Sweden. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-177297 No abstract available. 2019-12-20T14:55:59.127+01:00 2020-01-09T16:23:01.309+01:00 Hjördis D'Agostino Why do workers join unions? : a comparison of Sweden and OECD countries http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-167895 No abstract available. 2019-04-11T08:06:00.000+02:00 2019-10-10T15:39:12.241+02:00 Tomas Korpi Escaping unemployment : studies in the individual consequences of unemployment and labor market policy http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158806 No abstract available. 2018-08-16T13:59:00.000+02:00 2018-10-31T10:57:53.114+01:00 Maria Nyström Peck Childhood class, body height and adult health : studies on the relationship between childhood social class, adult height and illness and mortality in adulthood http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-158840 No abstract available. 2018-09-20T09:35:00.000+02:00 2018-11-14T13:51:12.813+01:00 Katarina Richardson Essays on Family and Labor Economics http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-61680
Are Divorcing Parents Induced to Choose Joint Custody? An Evaluation Using Implementation Theory: What demands do divorcing parents make in court with respect to custody, under different legal regimes. This question is analyzed using the tools from implementation theory. Joint custody is viewed to be beneficial to the child in a majority of divorces. The legislation should therefore induce parents to agree on joint custody. My results indicate that the legislation works well in most cases. However, a parent who ranks joint custody as the worst alternative can and will veto joint custody. A proposed change in the legislation aims to further emphasize joint custody. However, my results indicate that the parents' tendency to accept joint custody may be reduced.

The Evolution of the Marriage Premium in the Swedish Labor Market 1968- 1991: Married and cohabiting men in Sweden earn more than single men. Longitudinal data also indicates that these wage differentials may partly be explained by the selection of men into partnership based on unobserved productivity. This explanation to the marriage premium grows more in important over the investigated period. I also find, though only in the early part of the period and only for legally married, that wages increase with time married and that men with non-working spouses earn more than other married men. These results are in line with Becker's hypothesis of specialization between spouses. During this time period in Sweden, reforms have been undertaken to induce spouses to share labor market and housework more equally. If the wage differential between married and single men reflects specialization, we would expect it to decline.

Estimation the Impact of Wage Structure on Wage Differentials: Juhn, Murphy and Pierce (1991), JMP, decompose changes in the unexplained wage differential between two groups of workers into two parts. One part is due to changes in the average amount of unobserved skills, and the other to changes in returns to unobserved skills. An alternative estimator to the JMP estimator is suggested which is approximately unbiased, consistent, and easy to calculate. The statistical properties of the JMP estimator depend on the distribution of the error term. Applied to the decline in the gender wage gap in Sweden, the two estimators produce qualitatively similar results.
 2011-08-26T09:15:00.000+02:00 2011-08-26T11:37:31.248+02:00 Håkan Regnér Training at the job and training for a new job : two Swedish studies http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-152879 No abstract available. 2018-02-09T13:49:00.000+01:00 2018-03-26T23:20:41.434+02:00 Helen Dryler Educational Choice in Sweden : Studies on the Importance of Gender and Social Contexts http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62384
This thesis comprises four empirical studies dealing with different aspects of educational choice in Sweden. Two studies focus on the hierarchical outcome, namely level of education. The other two are concerned with the horizontal outcome field of study. Large-scale quantitative data from surveys and registers were used to examine the influence of gender, family of origin, and other social contexts on individuals' educational choice.>P> In paper I, Childhood Conditions and Educational Careers two general questions are addressed: 1) To what extent can differences in childhood conditions account for the fact that children from various social class origins choose academic upper secondary school programmes to such differing degrees? 2) Which changes in educational attainment during this century have resulted from the effects of class background and other childhood conditions? Regarding the first question, the parents' level of education, as an indicator of the teaching and cultural environment in the home, proved to be the most important childhood condition in accounting for class differences. Financial difficulties during childhood were less important in comparison. Regarding the second question the results showed that the influence of the parents' social class and educational level, and the number of siblings (as a partial indicator of financial difficulties) were weaker for younger cohorts (1930-1949 and 1950-1973) than for older ones (1892-1929). However, the effects of several childhood conditions examined had not decreased.

Starting in the late sixties Sweden experienced an extensive geographical dispersion of university and college education. Whether these new establishments have had any reducing effect on the social selection into higher education is evaluated in paper II, The Establishment of New Institutes of Higher Education: A Means of Reducing Educational Inequality? The results clearly give a negative answer. The interpretation is that 1) people from different social backgrounds do not differ in their sensitivity to geographical distance to university sites, and 2) the new colleges and universities have not been established in regions with a high proportion of disadvantaged social classes (working classes for example), nor have they managed, on the whole, to increase the number of students from the newly established university and college regions in relation to the rest of the country.

Can family background account for intra-gender differences in the heavily gender-typed choice of study field? Paper III, Parental Role Models, Gender, and Educational Choice, describes several relationships on this topic from a socialization perspective where parents are regarded as role models for their children. It was found that the parents' educational as well as occupational sector increased the likelihood of both boys and girls choosing a similar field of study (vocational and academic programmes in upper secondary school), and that both the mother's and the father's occupation and education were important in this respect. This so- called same-sector effect was somewhat stronger for fathers and sons, while no such same-sex influence was confirmed for girls. Further, a "high" social origin ( measured by class and level of education - was positively associated with gender-atypical choices.

In paper IV, A Multilevel Approach to Gender-Typical and Gender-Atypical Educational Choices: Do Schools and Classrooms Matter? the questions asked in the third paper were extended to include any influences from social contexts above the level of the family, more specifically, classrooms and schools. Logistic multilevel models were used to show significant school and classroom variations in the choice of study field. However, the contextual characteristics that were used in an attempt to account for these (mainly aggregate variables based on pupil characteristics) left the variances unchanged to the greatest extent. For example, the girl/boy ratio in the classroom does not seem to influence gender-typical or gender-atypical educational choices. One classroom effect showed a systematic influence however: the better classmates performed in mathematics and natural science subjects, the lower the propensity to choose the engineering programme, and further, the better classmates performed in language and social sciences subjects, the less probability that a girl or a boy would choose the humanities/social sciences programme.
 2011-09-16T13:38:00.000+02:00 2011-09-16T13:38:17.057+02:00 Michael Gähler Life After Divorce : Economic, Social and Psychological Well-being among Swedish Adults and Children Following Family Dissolution http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62385
During the 20th century the annual number of divorces has increased dramatically in Sweden, from around 400 in 1900 to more than 20,000 during the 1990s. The aim of this thesis is to investigate how divorce and family dissolution affects the living conditions of the spouses and their children, if any.

Two data sets are employed: (i) the 1981 and 1991 Swedish Level of Living Surveys (LNU) and (ii) ‰rskurs 9-materialet (AK9) collected by the Swedish Commission on Educational Inequality. LNU is based on a random sample of the Swedish population and has a panel structure. The survey covers a number of dimensions of individualís living conditions. AK9 includes a sample of children who graduated from the ninth grade in the years 1988-1992 and contains information on parentsí socioeconomic position and indicators on childrenís educational attainment.

The results from four separate studies show that divorce is often associated with declining living conditions in several respects, for adults and children alike. The income of divorced women is substantially lower than for intact and remarried couples. This is an effect of change in civil status and cannot be accounted for by a selection effect, i.e. that divorced women belonged to households with lower incomes already before the divorce. Divorced men have incomes on par with the incomes of two-partner households. Divorced women are also less likely to see relatives often than other women whereas divorcees of both sexes more often lack access to social support, i.e. someone who is there for them if they fall ill or need someone to talk to. However, divorcees are as likely as others to have frequent contact with friends. Both female and male divorcees report a lower psychological well-being than their married and cohabiting counterparts. This is only to a limited extent due to the fact that divorcees had low well-being already before the divorce.

Divorced mothers have lower incomes than divorced non-mothers but the change in income has been less negative for mothers. This is generally due to relatively large public and private transfers to single mothers. Divorced mothers do not exhibit a lower psychological well-being than divorced non-mothers although there are tendencies that they less often see friends and relatives, and are more likely to lack access to social support.

Adults who experienced parental divorce during childhood do not report a lower psychological well-being than adults from intact childhood families. Instead the decisive factor seems to be whether or not the individual experienced severe conflict in the family of origin. Individuals who grew up in intact families characterized by serious dissension report the lowest level of psychological well-being, followed by those who experienced conflict and parental divorce. No differences between women and men are revealed.

Children who have experienced family dissolution do, however, exhibit lower educational attainment at age 16. They are less likely to continue to secondary education and, given that they do, they are less likely to continue to upper secondary education. This is to some degree explained by economic deprivation. Downward social mobility, i.e. the fact that the parent with the higher educational level and higher social class position often leaves the childís household following family dissolution, appears to be an important factor. Again, no differences between girls and boys are revealed.
 2011-09-16T13:51:00.000+02:00 2011-09-16T14:38:17.795+02:00 Olof Bäckman Longitudinal Studies on Sickness Absence in Sweden http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62470
The research object of this thesis is sickness absence taking behavior in Sweden. In four empirical studies, using longitudinal data, the thesis investigates sickness absence taking behavior as a result of the impact of specific structural factors.

The first empirical study (Chapter II) examines the relationship between the annual national sickness absence and unemployment rates for the period 1935-1990. The effects of changes of the replacement level are also studied. The analyses show that the widespread notion of an inverse relationship between the unemployment rate and the sickness absence rate cannot be verified by a closer analysis of available data.

The remaining three empirical studies use micro-data to study sickness absence behavior. Chapter III closely examines the effect of the reduction in sickness cash benefits of March 1 1991 on the short-term absence rate. The theoretical perspective is derived from rational choice theory. Intensity regressions on duration data show that the objectives that were linked to the reduction of benefits-lower sickness absence rates and an equal distribution of the burdens brought about by the reduction-are incompatible. The weaker groups that are likely to have the greatest need for sickness absence reduce their absence taking more than stronger groups in the labor market.

Chapter IV, co-authored with Joakim Palme, addresses the question of how conditions in childhood affect absence taking in adulthood. Analyses of data of a Stockholm cohort reveal how conditions in childhood and early adolescence structure the absence taking behavior of individuals. The chapter shows the endurance of these effects, a finding that is most clearly manifested in what has been labeled "the social imprint effect".

The fourth of the empirical studies (Chapter V) treats the issue of gender differences in short-term absence rates. The study focuses on the impact of the gender composition of work places, but hierarchical positioning and integration among workers are also investigated. The results indicate that numerical representation conditions the short-term absence rate of women in the sense that women at workplaces where they constitute a small minority have a lower short-term absence rate than other women. For men, the hierarchical position in which they work is a more important determinant for the short-term absence rate.

The results provide new insights for the study of sickness absence from a sociological perspective by specifying the mechanisms through which the social structure, in terms of institutional constraints, incentives, social stratification, and organizational traits of job sites, influences the behavior of individuals.
 2011-09-20T13:40:00.000+02:00 2011-09-20T13:40:08.999+02:00 Anna Thoursie Studies on unemployment duration and on the gender wage gap http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-62877
Effects of Renewable Benefit Periods and Labour Market Programmes on the Exit Rate from Unemployment

The main question addressed in this paper concerns the incentive effects of time-restricted unemployment benefits, as manifest in a rising exit rate from unemployment to employment when the moment of benefit exhaustion approaches: are these incentive effects lost when participation in labour market programmes is at hand as a way of renewing benefit eligibility? This renewal possibility is available as part of the Swedish unemployment insurance system. A piecewise-constant, proportional competing-risks hazard model is estimated using Swedish administrative data generated during the period 1994-1997. There is some weakly significant evidence that the exit rate for unemployment insurance recipients from unemployment to employment rises as the moment of benefit expiry (60 weeks) approaches, thus suggesting that incentive effects have not been eliminated.

Transitions from Unemployment to Employment: What are the Effects of Education? This paper analyses the way different educational levels affect the transition rates from unemployment to various types of employment. Two piecewise-constant, proportional competing-risks hazard models are estimated using Swedish data administrative generated during the period 1992-1997. The first model studies transitions from unemployment to aggregated employment. In the second model, transitions to employment are divided between the three following destinations: (i) permanent full-time jobs, (ii) temporary full-time jobs, and (iii) part-time jobs. The results of both models indicate that the transition rate to employment for those with university experience are considerably higher. The results of the second model suggests further that the effect of education on transition rates differ according to the destination. Sensitivity analyses on two sub-periods (1992-1993, a period of unemployment build-up, and 1994-1997, a period with high but stable unemployment) indicate that the effects of education on the transition rates vary with the unemployment cycle.

Individual and Occupation-Specific Differences Between Women and Men: How Do They Affect the Gender Wage Gap?

The purpose of this paper is (i) to study the wage effects of differences in the probability of occupational attainment between women and men as a function of personal background characteristics, and (ii) to study within-occupation wage differentials between the sexes as a function of productivity-related individual and job-related characteristics, and of gender-based differences in the returns on these characteristics. This is achieved by simulating the composition of the gender wage gap that would prevail (i) if women were subject to the same occupational structure as men, and (ii) if women received compensation for productivity-related individual characteristics and job-related characteristics in the same way as men. The results indicate that there are systematic, gender-specific wage differentials, i.e. women earn less than men both between and - even more so - within occupations, and that these wage differentials cannot be explained by observed personal background characteristics, or by individual productivity-related or job-related characteristics.
 2011-10-07T09:32:00.000+02:00 2018-05-24T15:49:58.368+02:00 Eero Carroll Emergence and structuring of social insurance institutions : comparative studies on social policy and unemployment insurance http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-64080
The Strengths and Limits of Generalizing Theory inAccounting for Comparative Welfare State Development: An IntroductoryEssay. This essay discusses some central theoretical, empirical and inferentialproblems in comparative welfare state research, and summates the results ofstudies pursued here. Frontiers for further research are indicated.The need for more institutionalist accounts of social policy is argued forwith special reference to the structural diversity of unemploymentinsurance programs at the beginning of the 1990s, as well as the challengesthis poses for standard economic theory on the work disincentives these programs supposedly entail. The need formore historicizing accounts is argued with focus upon ongoing processes ofsocial change concomitant to welfare state structuring, including trends inglobalization,civic protest, divisions among leftist parties, and ideology.

Thresholds to the Welfare State: SocietalConcomitants of the First Laws on Social Insurance. The emergence of the welfare state is studied in relation to processes ofsocial change such as democratization, economic growth, and elites'strategic action to pacify labor movements, as well as to constitutionalfederalism.Qualitative analysis indicates that social insurance enactment rather tendsto follow the founding of labor parties than of trade unions, while usuallypreceding the more reactive foundation of confessional or ChristianDemocratic parties and trade unions. Conservative and liberal elitesdiffered in their motives for social policy activism, which were not limited to pacification of the working class.Multivariate analysis indicates that trade union consolidation slightlydecreases the likelihood of the very earliest social insurance enactmentsoccurring, while strongly elevating the likelihood of later legislation. Trade unions make the most difference forsocial insurance enactment under low growth conditions. Federalconstitutions are found to have delayed social insurance. Leadership ineconomic growth was not associated with legislative activism--if anything, a negative relationship is indicated by the data.

Deadlock, Charge and Countercharge:Unemployment Insurance in Highly Industrialized Nations from 1930sDepression to 1990s Retrenchment. Cross-national trends in centralinstitutional aspects of unemployment insurance (including organization, coverageand replacement rates) are described for major periods of macroeconomicchange since the 1930s. In the long run, voluntary and corporatistinstitutional forms (directed to fund members and to core labor force groups respectively) make forhigher benefit rates but lower coverage. Comprehensive compulsoryinsurance, for most of those active on the labor market, provides lowerbenefits while tending towards full coverage among employees--income-tested programs yield lower minimum benefits.Such institutional constraints have limited income security inunemployment. Since the "oil shocks" in 1973, right-wing governments cut back programs more often thanexpanding them--there is otherwise no systematic political logic to changes in insurance extension, whichtend to generate conflict also within (rather than simply between) majorparty-political power blocs.

Sheer Necessity or Strategic Opportunity?Temporality and Contingency in the Institutional Politics of UnemploymentInsurance. In this study, it is argued that the development of unemployment insurancemust be explained with reference to its institutional structure, as well asto nation-specific and historical context. Descriptive analyses indicatethat constitutional hindrancesto decisionmaking make little difference in themselves for programinclusivity, but may change the context where it evolves by limitingworking class mobilization. Multivariate analyses indicate that constitutional factors, strike activity, and party politics often bear a lesssystematic relation to insurance extension in the 1930s than in postwaryears, while partly the reverse is true of agrarian labour force structure.Stronger working class mobilization actually coincides with lower coverage if the impact of voluntaryinsurance institutions is not controlled for. Economic growth hasinconsistent effects on both coverage and replacement rates, depending onwhich other factors are controlled for. Replacement rates are lower under comprehensive or means-tested institutionalforms, but are not as well explained by macrosocial factors as is coverage.Christian Democratic party strength makes more difference for insuranceextension than does the strength ofworking class movements. Finally, strong "ratchetingeffects" of prior reforms uphold insurance extension,particularily coverage levels.
 2011-11-08T15:42:00.000+01:00 2011-11-08T15:47:48.752+01:00 Gunnar Isacsson Essays on the twins approach in empirical labor economics http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-64103
Estimates of the Return to Schooling in Sweden from a Large Sample of Twins: A large sample of twins was used to examine whether conventional estimates of the return to schooling in Sweden are biased because ability is omitted from the earnings-schooling relationship. Ignoring measurement error, the results indicate that omitting ability from the earnings-schooling relationship leads to estimates that are positively biased. However, reasonable estimates of the measurement-error-adjusted returns are both above and below the unadjusted estimates, showing that the results depend crucially on a parameter not known at this time. However, an estimate of the reliability ratio was obtained using two measures on educational attainment. With this estimate of the reliability ratio the measurement-error-adjusted estimate of the return to schooling in the sample of identical twins indicates that there is at most a slight ability bias in the conventional estimates of the return to schooling. The fundamental assumption of this kind of study is that within-pair differences in educational attainment are randomly determined. This assumption was also tested, but no strong evidence to reject it was found.

Estimating the Economic Return to Educational Levels from Data on Twins: This paper relaxes some restrictions of previous twins-based estimates of the effects of education on earnings. First, it estimates a piece-wise linear relationship between the natural logarithm of annual earnings and years of schooling. Second, the measurement error corrections are based on a less restrictive, "non-classical", measurement error model. The estimation strategy implies that the issue of ability bias can be investigated separately in different parts of the educational distribution. The results indicated that the linear relationship between the logarithm of annual earnings and years of schooling is rejected. Furthermore, the results in the sample of identical (MZ) twins indicated both that the ability bias could be of different sign and of different magnitude in different parts of the educational distribution. The twins-based estimates in the sample of fraternal (DZ) twins did not display any marked differences compared to the cross-sectional estimates. Finally, the paper presents results indicating that previous error-corrected within-pair estimates of the average return to years of schooling are not specifically sensitive to the choice of measurement error model.

Twin Data vs. Longitudinal Data to Control for Unobserved Variables in Earnings Functions - Which Are the Differences?: An empirical comparison was made of two different methods to control for unobserved variables in earnings functions, the longitudinal and the twins approach. The application concerns the estimation of the marriage premium. The purpose of this comparison is to illustrate advantages and disadvantages of the two approaches. The estimates were obtained by exploiting the longitudinal dimension of a large sample of male Swedish twins, so that within-individual (longitudinal) and within-pair (twins-based) estimates could be obtained in the same sample. Both types of estimates were below the corresponding cross-sectional (OLS) estimates. However, there were substantial differences between the within-individual and the within-pair estimates. It was demonstrated that the differences between the within-individual and within-pair estimates could not be explained by classification error in marital status. An alternative explanation to the difference was investigated, namely that the within-individual estimates tend to capture short run premiums whereas the within-pair estimates tend to capture long-run premiums. Finally, the within-individual estimates have higher standard errors than the within-pair estimates. This result is likely due to the larger amount of within-variation in the twin dimension of the data.
 2011-11-09T10:05:00.000+01:00 2011-11-09T10:55:45.752+01:00 Helena Persson Essays on labour demand and career mobility http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-64525 No abstract available. 2011-11-21T14:40:00.000+01:00 2011-11-21T15:32:02.199+01:00 Christian Kjellström Essays on investment in human capital http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-63754
Heterogeneous On-the-job Training: Implications for the Specification and Estimation of the human Capital Earnings FunctionDespite the centrality of heterogeneous on-the-job training in human capital theory, this is rarely accounted for in the estimation. The empirical findings indicate that individual-specific components in the earnings function are stochastic. So, as long as information about on-the-job training is unavailable, the earnings function should be specified as a random-coefficients model. Moreover, the results show that the White heteroskedasticity-consistent estimator of the covariance matrix is preferable to other more complicated estimators. The standard errors obtained from this estimator are generally much larger than the OLS standard errors. The difference can be as large as 40 per cent.

Omitted Ability Bias and the Wage Premium for Schooling: New Swedish EvidenceThere is extensive debate in the schooling literature about the failure to control for ability. This paper uses two new data sets that include various measures of ability, collected when the respondents were between 12 and 13 years old. The measures include scores from intelligence tests, achievement tests and school marks. In line with general opinion, the estimated wage premiums for education fall considerably when ability is controlled for. The average reduction in the return to imputed schooling is about 15 per cent, which is lower than comparable figures obtained in the U.S. Furthermore, the magnitude of the ability bias becomes only somewhat lower when I also account for measurement error in the schooling variable. I also find that measures associated with mathematics are the most important ones.

Estimating the Return to Investments in Education: How useful is the Standard Mincer Equation?We examine how well the schooling coefficient in standard Mincer equations estimated on Swedish data for 1968, 1981, and 1991 approximates the marginal internal rate of return to education. We find three cases where inference from the estimated schooling coefficient is misleading. First, the decline in return to schooling from 1968 to 1981 is mainly concentrated to college education, whereas the return to high school education is stable. Second, the rate of return is sensitive to the assumption made about the length of working life, or the retirement decision. Third, both the schooling coefficient and the internal rate of return give misleading information about the value of adult education. By comparing the present value of lifetime earnings between youth and adult education, we find large differences in favor of youth education, even though the schooling coefficient and the internal rate of return are the same.

Does Distance to a University Affect Enrollment Decisions? Evidence from Data on Three Cohorts of SwedesThis paper uses data on three cohorts of Swedes born in 1948, 1953, and 1967 to investigate whether geographical distance between the area of residence and the nearest university influences individuals decisions to enroll in higher education in Sweden. Models that do not control for differences in ability predict that persons who live far away from a university are less likely to enroll in higher education. Models that include results on intelligence tests, obtained when children were age 13, predict significant effects of geographical distance merely for individuals born in 1967. The results show that it is important to control for individual ability when modelling enrollment decisions to higher education. Also, the results suggest that previous estimates of the impact of distance are upward biased.
 2011-10-28T10:58:00.000+02:00 2011-10-28T12:44:54.439+02:00 Ingalill Montanari Social citizenship and work in welfare states : comparative studies on convergence and on gender http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-70130 No abstract available. 2012-01-17T16:21:00.000+01:00 2012-01-17T17:34:59.935+01:00 Mikael Lindahl Studies of causal effects in empirical labor economics http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-69170 No abstract available. 2012-01-10T14:37:00.000+01:00 2012-01-10T15:36:05.660+01:00 Ingemar Kåreholt Social class and mortality risk http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-70023
Persons from lower social classes have a smaller chance to live a long and healthy life than persons from higher social classes. Larger relative mortality risks in lower social classes are not due simply to accidents, alcohol related mortality, or suicides. In fact, mortality differences between social classes are not caused by any specific set of diseases, but rather are found for all major causes of death. Causes behind class differences in illness and mortality are therefore likely to be complex, including for instance childhood conditions, health care, economic deprivation, housing, working conditions, and psychological stress from different kinds of deprivations.

In this thesis some of the mechanisms behind, and manifestations of, class differences in mortality are explored. The data is based on a random sample of the Swedish population, aged between 23 and 75 years when originally interviewed in 1968. Different aspects of class differences in mortality are studied over a 29-year follow-up period, from 1968 to 1996. The lower social classes are more likely than the upper classes to get different illnesses. This is, for instance, valid for heart problems. The results in this thesis show that lower social classes have a more elevated mortality risk than do upper classes when having heart problems. This suggests that the inequalities in society not only make the lower social classes more susceptible to disease, but also affect the mortality risks linked to certain diseases.

Results also show that childhood conditions are important for social class differences in mortality among adults - class differences are smaller among persons with good childhood conditions and larger among persons with poorer childhood conditions.

People do not randomly end up in a certain social class. Several factors influence class position, for instance childhood conditions. The results of this thesis show that if persons were randomly distributed into social classes, class differences in mortality would be much larger than the differences normally observed. This means that the true effect of social class alone is much larger than the observed differences in most studies. The discrepancy between observed and true class differences in mortality seems to be explained by the way people are distributed into social classes early in their work careers.
 2012-01-16T17:54:00.000+01:00 2012-01-16T19:23:09.533+01:00 Ann-Zofie E. Duvander Couples in Sweden : studies on family and work http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-71368
This thesis contains four separate studies that in various ways focus on family and work in Sweden. The studies address different dimensions of how family and work are connected, which is increasingly important as most men and women today participate in both spheres. All studies are studies of couples, which is useful as a large part of the interplay between work and family takes place in couples. An introductory essay discusses the findings.

The transition from cohabitation to marriage. A longitudinal study of the propensity to marry in Sweden in the early 1990s. In Sweden cohabitation is the norm before marriage, and it is in many ways equal to marriage. By investigating the transition from cohabitation to marriage this study seeks to clarify how those who marry differ from those who do not. The study uses the Swedish Family Survey of 1992 together with register data of marriages and births for the following two years. Information on partners' attitudes and marriage plans is obtained from a self-administered questionnaire. The risk of marriage for women who were cohabiting at the time of interview is analyzed with event history analysis. The results show that life course stage, economic gains in marriage, and family socialization predict whether cohabiting women will turn their unions into marriages. In addition, attitudes toward leisure and parenthood influence marriage propensities. Marriage plans explain some, but not all of those effects.

Do country-specific skills lead to improved labor market positions? An analysis of unemployment and labor market returns to education among immigrants in Sweden. The gap in labor market rewards between immigrants and the native-born is sometimes explained with reference to immigrants' lack of country-specific skills. This study investigates whether speaking and understanding Swedish well, having an education obtained in Sweden and living with a Swedish partner improve immigrants' positions in the labor market. The findings show that these characteristics do not substantially reduce the risk of unemployment, and the risk remains clearly above the level of native-born Swedes. However, employed immigrants with a Swedish education and very good language skills are not more likely than Swedes to be educationally over-qualified for their job. In sum, country-specific skills are helpful in the process of reward attainment, but do not go all the way in accounting for the labor market disadvantage of immigrants. The residual may be due to discrimination.

Family division of childcare and the sharing of parental leave among new parents in Sweden. This paper uses register data on days of parental-leave used by mothers and fathers of Swedish children born in 1994, including information on earnings of mothers and fathers, to analyze the determinants of fathers' participation in child care. In 1994 parents were entitled to 15 months of parental leave of which 12 months were compensated at 90 percent of prior earnings. Our major finding is that while both fathers' and mothers' earnings had positive effects on fathers' leave use, smaller at higher earnings, fathers' earnings had a greater impact than mothers'. Fathers used more leave if they or the mother had more schooling and if they were established in the labor market, but used less leave if the mother was established in the labor market.

Marriage choice and earnings. A study of how spouses' relative resources influence their income development. This study investigates how spouses in dual earner couples influence each other's labor market careers. This is done by analyzing the influence of spouses' relative resources on the income development of wives and husbands. Resourcesare measured by kind of education, educational level, age and income. The most consistent finding is that homogamy of kind of education influences both men's and women's income development positively. Furthermore, at low levels of resources, both men and women credit from having a spouse with higher levels of resources. Men with high levels of resources credit from having a spouse with lower levels of resources, and women at high levels of resources credit from having a spouse with the same level of resources.
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Intergenerational transmission of welfare dependency has received increasing attention among social scientists, especially in the United States, as greater availability of longitudinal data has shed new light on this issue. It remains unclear, however, to what extent the intergenerational correlation of welfare recipiency observed in the United States reflects or interacts with unobserved variables, the racial composition of the population, and the institutional structure of social policies. This study focuses on Sweden, a country with an ethnically homogenous population and institutional social policy structures that differ from those in the United States. It utilizes an internationally unique longitudinal data set to test hypotheses on the inheritance of welfare benefit recipiency as indicated by reliance on means‐tested social assistance. A clear intergenerational effect is observed. This effect, however, reflects a combination of social assistance in the family of origin, children's school adjustment, and parental criminality. Children who lack this combination of problems do not show signs of intergenerational welfare dependency.
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Flipper w/1 Pontic - Upper
Flipper w/1 Pontic - Upper
-.032 Ball Clasps as needed
- Custom shaped pontic
- "T-Traditional Pink" Acrylic
Alternate view:
- "Clear" Acrylic
For temporary tooth replacement there is nothing better looking or easier to wear than a simple flipper. Since there is no labial bow to help with retention, additional clasps may be added.
Please provide an opposing model and the proper shade to assure an appliance your patient is pleased to wear.
Go ahead and choose a color or design for the palate - we will be careful to use clear acrylic in the pontic area to avoid shadows.
A flesh toned acrylic saddle may be added to the labial if requested.
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