Social insurance policy

The purpose of this project is to examine which fathers take only few days of paid parental leave and to what extent this can be related to physical, economic, or normative constraints. Moreover, we a...

In connection with Sweden’s entry into the EEA (and later the EU), the eligibility rules for the basic pension for immigrants were changed. Previously, full entitlement to the basic pension was ...

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

We follow men and women before and after the birth of their first child and estimate, year b...

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

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