Social insurance policy

The aim of this project is to use causal forests, a machine learning approach, to study what characterises individuals who are prone to stay longer on sick leave if not monitored by med...

Projektets syfte är att rättsvetenskapligt analysera hur socialförsäkringarna är anpassade för plattformsarbetare i den digitaliserade (gig) ekonomin och andra nya ...

Projektet studerar hur utträdet från arbetsmarknaden skiljer sig mellan grupper med bakgrund i olika delar av världen och vad som kan förklara dessa skillnader. Analyserna b...

In the Swedish parental leave system parents are entitled to in total 480 days of benefits. Parents are compensated 390 days in relation to their previous incomes. But they are also entitled to ...

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

This project examines how the municipal child home care allowance (kommunala vårdnadsbidraget) affected parents’ labour supply, children’s enrollment in preschool and ...

The provision of paid parental leave is often regarded as crucial for keeping mothers in the labour force after giving birth. However, for newly arrived immigrants who lack host-country employme...

Occupational pension plans in Sweden offer their plan members to withdraw their pensions as a life annuity or as a fixed-term payout. Fixed-term payouts last 5–20 years and therefore provi...

This project exploits the introduction of the first Swedish “daddy-month” in a

difference-in-discontinuities design to study how a shift of parental leave uptake from mothers ...

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...