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...

This project is a part of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) Deaton Review of Inquality, an international collaboration aimed at documenting and understanding the evolution of inequality ove...

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

This project studies the effects of a reform of the Swedish divorce laws in 1974 on children’s long-term outcomes and their families. The reform constituted a substantial liberalisation of...

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...

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...