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16. Adolescents in a Digital Everyday Environment
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to examine different aspects of Swedish adolescents’ everyday environment in a digital world. Drawing on ecological and psychosocial developmental theories I will discuss social, sexual, and biological aspects of the Internet as an everyday environment, an environment in which most adolescents spend a great deal of time. LÄS MER
17. Parental leave institutions in eighteen post-war welfare states
Sammanfattning : This study applies a macro-comparative and institutional approach to the study of incentive structures, determinants and outcomes of legislated parental leave benefits. Parental leave is defined as all benefits directed to mothers, fathers or both parents to facilitate parental childcare during the early post-natal period. LÄS MER
18. Participation in school for children in socially challenged areas : Achieving and socializing
Sammanfattning : The Swedish school is not only an institution for learning. It is also the most significant social context for its students. In the Swedish regulatory documents for school the importance of democracy, democratic values and becoming a citizen of a democratic society is emphasized, as is the importance of interaction. LÄS MER
19. Caring, Sharing, and Childbearing : Essays on Labor Supply, Infant Health, and Family Policies
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
20. The care of children : A cross-national comparison of parents’ expectations and experiences
Sammanfattning : As a point of departure, this thesis is motivated by the big changes which have taken place in most Western European countries since the 1970s, with an increase in female labour market participation and, to some extent, men’s increased share of the domestic work. There is also a debate as to whether France, having a fairly extensive family support,should be categorised as closer to the Scandinavian countries or together with countries with more restrictive family policy such as Italy and Germany, and thus belonging to the conservative regime cluster as defined by Gösta Esping-Andersen. LÄS MER
