Sökning: "Labor attachment"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden Labor attachment.

1. 1. From Welfare to Work : Financial Incentives, Active Labor Market Policies, and Integration Programs

   Författare :Lillit Ottosson; Eva Mörk; Anna Sjögren; Ulrika Vikman; Alexander Willén; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social assistance; Welfare; Labor supply; Public sector employment programs; Cost-shifting; Dynamic inverse probability weighting; Refugees; Integration; Active labor market policies; Language support; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Essay I: I study the effects of increased social assistance (SA) generosity by exploiting exogenous variation induced by a ruling in the Swedish Supreme Administrative Court in 1993, mandating local governments to provide a minimum level of untied SA payments. The new rule forced some local governments to increase their SA generosity, while others were unaffected as they already complied with the stricter standards. LÄS MER

3. 2. Activation Programs, Benefit Take-Up, and Labor Market Attachment

   Författare :Anna Persson; Matz Dahlberg; Eva Mörk; Anders Björklund; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social asssitance; activation programs; workfare; job displacement; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Essay 1 (with Ulrika Vikman): Previous literature shows that activation requirements for welfare participants reduce welfare participation, but the dynamics behind these results have not been fully examined. In this paper we use a rich set of register data covering the entire working age population in a Swedish municipality to study how the introduction of mandatory activation programs aimed at unemployed welfare participants affect the probability of entering and exiting welfare. LÄS MER

4. 3. Caring, Sharing, and Childbearing : Essays on Labor Supply, Infant Health, and Family Policies

   Författare :Anna Norén; Erik Grönqvist; Matz Dahlberg; Katarina Steen Carlsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Informal care; Elderly; Labor supply; Alcohol prevention; Brief intervention; AUDIT; Antenatal care; Child health; Childcare; Parental leave; Gender equality; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Essay I: I study the consequences on labor market outcomes and sick leave of having an elderly parent in need of care. Caring for an elderly parent may be associated with opportunity costs such as productivity loss on the labor market if informal caregivers are of working age. LÄS MER

5. 4. Education, skills and gender : The impact of a grading reform and the business cycle on labor market outcomes

   Författare :Charlotta Boström; Anne Boschini; Helena Svaleryd; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; education; labor market; recessions; gender; ability; earnings; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of three self-contained essays in economics, all concerned with different aspects of education and labor market outcomes. The abstracts of the three studies are as follows.A flight of hurdles? Effects on graduation and long-term labor market outcomes of a nationwide grading reform. LÄS MER

7. 5. Gender, Ethnicity and Labor Market Disparities

   Författare :Magnus Rödin; Mahmood Arai; Lena Nekby; Tor Eriksson; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; immigration; employment; education; ethnic identity; discrimination; glass-ceiling; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Economics; nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : Acculturation identity and employment among second and middle generation immigrants This paper explores the employment implications for individuals with a foreign background of identification to the ethnic group and to the majority culture. Results indicate that what matters for employment outcomes is an attachment to the majority culture while a strong attachment to the ethnic group is not per se detrimental for employment outcomes. LÄS MER