Publikationer från Digitala vetenskapliga arkivet (DiVA)
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Polariseringsmyten. Försvinner verkligen de medelkvalificerade jobben?
På senare år har en föreställning om att arbetsmarknaden polariserats fått fäste såväl inom forskningen som i samhällsdebatten. Polariseringstesen frammanar bilden av att goda jobb i arbetslivets mellanskikt är på väg att försvinna – detta brukar kallas ”mittens urholkning” – för att ersättas av dåliga jobb i strukturens bott...
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Flexible time - but is the time owned? Family friendly and family unfriendly work arrangements, occupational gender composition and wages
The relationship between gender, working conditions, occupational gender composition and wages is investigated to test the support for the mother-friendly job hypothesis in the family-friendly welfare state of Sweden. The Swedish level-of-living survey (LNU2010) is used to measure two dimensions of working conditions: flexibi...
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Unequal involvement, unequal attainment? A theoretical reassessment and empirical analysis of the value of motivation in the labor market
Inequality has often been explained by stable individual traits or by the structural features of labor markets. This study argues that we also should consider task involvement when we account for labor market inequality. Three mechanisms derived from experimental research link task involvement to performance: individuals invo...
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From childhood to young adulthood
This study investigates the impact of self-esteem during childhood on men’s and women’s occupational prestige in young adulthood. By combining first-hand information from parents in the Swedish Level-of-Living surveys (LNU) 2000 and their children in the Child-LNU in 2000 and the follow-up study in LNU-2010, we are able to as...
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Sick of Work?
This thesis examines two aspects of social inequalities in health with three empirical studies that are based on the Swedish Level of Living survey (LNU): The relationship between accumulated occupational class positions during adulthood and health and the class-specific nature of gender differences in health. Previous resear...
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Do health complaints in adolescence negatively predict the chance of entering tertiary education in young adulthood?
Background: Self-reported psychological and psychosomatic health complaints, such as nervousness, sadness, headache and stomach-ache, are common among adolescents, particularly among girls, and studies suggest that the prevalence has risen among adolescent girls during the last few decades. However, only a limited nu...
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Stagnation only on the surface? The implications of skill and family responsibilities for the gender wage gap in Sweden, 1974–2010
The wage differential between women and men persists in advanced economies despite the inflow of women into qualified occupations in recent years. Using five waves of the Swedish Level-of-Living Survey (LNU), this paper explores the gender wage gap in Sweden during the 1974–2010 period overall and by skill level. The empirica...
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Does the familial transmission of drinking patterns persist into young adulthood? A 10-year follow up
Background
Parental drinking has been shown to be associated with offspring drinking. However, the relationship appears to be more complex than often assumed and few studies have tracked it over longer time periods.
Aims
To explore the long-term (10-year) transmission of familial drinking during adolescence ...
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LNU från utredning till forskning. Ett historiskt perspektiv
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Övertäckning och bortfall
Vid olika undersökningar är det viktigt att beakta problem med övertäckning och bortfall. Denna rapport innehåller en allmän genomgång av sådana problem och belyser dem genom en närmare presentation av denna typ av problem i samband med levnadsnivåundersökningen av utlandsfödda och deras barn (LNU-UFB).
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Motherhood, family policy, education, and careers in Germany, the US, and Sweden
This article compares the duration of and consequences for employment interruptions for mothers with distinct educational qualifications in cross-national perspective. We analyze the duration of mothers' employment interruption and the relative quality of the job after childbirth, for high and low qualified mothers in Germany...
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Time spent working
This study examines the connection between the time that women and men spend on paid work and housework and psychological distress, and addresses the question whether gender differences in time spent on these activities account for the gender difference in psychological distress. A group (n =1,277) of employed and co...
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Studying Young People's Level of Living
We propose a strategy for studying the level of living of young people based on survey information from children themselves, combined with information from parents and administrative records. In this way, children become the prime informants of their own conditions, at the same time as we get reliable information on their fam...
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Mind the Gap
The gender wage gap is accounted for to a substantial degree by the sex composition of occupations. The present thesis examines the mechanisms that produce this pattern. In particular, the theory of devaluation, currently the most widely accepted sociological explanation, is tested. The empirical findings, reported in three s...
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Essays on Social Reproduction and Lifelong Learning
This thesis consists of four self-contained papers that deal with social reproduction and lifelong learning in Sweden and all use large-scale longitudinal data from public registers.
The first paper analyses inequality by class origin in programme choice at university. It is found that individuals of working class orig...
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Facets of Gender
This thesis contains four different studies on the dynamics of gender in households and workplaces. The relationship between family life and work life is in focus, particularly in the paper on labour market outcomes after divorce.
In the introductory chapter, the Swedish context is briefly described. The description foc...