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- Turunen, Jani, 1977-, et al.
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Geographical distance between child and parent after a union dissolution in Sweden, 1974-2011
- 2023
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Ingår i: Demographic Research. - : Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. - 1435-9871. ; 48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- BACKGROUND Divorce is associated with a weakened relationship between the child and the nonresident parent, usually the father. This loss of contact is likely to be even further exacerbated if this parent lives at a substantial distance from the child. OBJECTIVE This paper analyzes how the distance between children and nonresident parents, the year after a parental separation, has changed during a 40-year period in Sweden, and whether this is related to changes in child custody policies. METHODS We use Swedish population register data that includes exact geographical coordinates for children and their nonresident parents in the year after separation. We analyze how average distance and the likelihood of living very close to, or very far from, a nonresident parent has changed over this period, using OLS and logistic regression models. RESULTS Results show a gradual decrease in the distance between children and nonresident parents from the 1970s until the early 1990s, after which the trend stalled at a low level. In 2011, 50% of all children lived within 2 kilometers of their nonresident parent. We find no evidence of direct policy effects, indicated by any sudden changes in distance after the introduction of a new custody policy. High-income parents have changed their post -divorce residential patterns at a faster pace than low-income parents. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate a diffusion process where distances between children and nonresident parents gradually decreased until the 1990s. CONTRIBUTION This paper demonstrates that the change has not been directly influenced by custody law reforms promoting dual parent responsibility.
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- Andersson, Ulrika, et al.
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The unbounded body of the law of rape : the intrusive criterion of non-consent
- 2018
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Ingår i: Responsible selves. - : Routledge. - 075462160X - 9780815376514 - 9781315193656 ; , s. 331-352
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the judicial context, the law of rape is plied chiefly around two central concepts: force and non-consent. These concepts are analogues to male and female sexuality and lie at the heart of what may be described as the dichotomy of rape law. When force is part of the legislative definition of rape, non-consent seems to be used in case law as an instrument to decide whether force may be proven. On the contrary, when the legislative definition contains non-consent, force is generally looked at in order to prove non-consent.
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- Nousiainen, Kevät, et al.
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Preface
- 2018
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Ingår i: Responsible Selves. - 9780815376514 - 9781351758734 - 9781315193656
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Nousiainen, Kevät, et al.
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Responsible selves
- 2018
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Bok (refereegranskat)abstract
- This title was first published in 2001. In the Nordic countries women are considered equal to men. Advanced social and economic rights are often given as the explanation for the equality. In this volume, Nordic feminist legal scholars give a more contradictory image of gender equality. The gendered construction of the legal subject and the legal understanding of gender have a two-pronged potential, both to change and to reproduce gender relations. Nordic women have been considered responsible for upholding the gendered social system - as "responsible selves" rather than as individuals engaged in rights discourse. The authors claim, with examples, that the belief in equality has made certain discriminative practices difficult to recognize and conceptualize. Also a transformation of the social welfare system puts the collective equality policies to the test.
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Responsible selves : Women in the Nordic legal culture
- 2018
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This title was first published in 2001. In the Nordic countries women are considered equal to men. Advanced social and economic rights are often given as the explanation for the equality. In this volume, Nordic feminist legal scholars give a more contradictory image of gender equality. The gendered construction of the legal subject and the legal understanding of gender have a two-pronged potential, both to change and to reproduce gender relations. Nordic women have been considered responsible for upholding the gendered social system - as "responsible selves" rather than as individuals engaged in rights discourse. The authors claim, with examples, that the belief in equality has made certain discriminative practices difficult to recognize and conceptualize. Also a transformation of the social welfare system puts the collective equality policies to the test.
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- Persson, Annina H., 1963-, et al.
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Household Credit, Indebtedness and Insolvency
- 2013
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Ingår i: European Review of Private Law. - Bedfordshire : Wolters Kluwer. - 0928-9801 .- 1875-8371. ; 21:3, s. 795-814
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The problem of excessive debt among households in Sweden is increasing. As a result of the development within the financial sector, households in Sweden have increased their debt incurrence markedly. It has been relatively easy to borrow money, due to the deregulation of the credit market in Sweden in the 1990s and the low interest rates in recent years. As mortgage loan is the bulk of the total household debt, the risk that individuals will be affected by excessive debt incurrence and insolvency has therefore increased. Therefore, a number of new legislative changes have been implemented to overcome this problem. In order to prevent these risks, the Financial Authority has adopted a rule that stipulates that new loans should not exceed 85% of the property market value. Reports from both the Swedish Enforcement Authority and the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority show that 20% of Swedish households have a difficult time making ends meet. Those who are affected by excessive debt often experience a lower standard of living since frequently they are impacted by distraint.The aim of this paper is to describe and analyze the excessive debt situation in terms of insolvency and effects on households and society. Firstly, we intend to investigate foreclosures in Sweden, both regionally and over time. Why are certain regions less frequently affected by these risks while other regions show higher levels of risk even during generally good years? Secondly, we will investigate whether (a) whether properties that have undergone executive auction are sold at a lesser value, (b) if these properties have an impact on the property prices in the vicinity and (c) if those who buy these properties themselves run a greater risk of insolvency. Thirdly, a closely related area of legal interest is investigating to what extent legislation provides a protective net for the debtor who, through the executive auction, thereby loses his/her residence.
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- Lundström, Karin E., et al.
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Labor-market status, migrant status, and first childbearing in Sweden
- 2012
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Ingår i: Demographic Research. - 1435-9871. ; 27:article 25, s. 719-742
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background Labor market uncertainties and employment insecurity have emerged as increasingly important factors in research on family formation and fertility.Objective In the present study, we provide evidence from Sweden on how non-employment, unemployment, and temporary employment relate to young people's first birth risks.Methods We use a combination of Labor Force Survey data on employment characteristics and register data on demographic outcomes to investigate how the labor market status and stability of employment are associated with the first birth behavior of women and men, and of Swedish-and foreign-born people in Sweden.Results Consistent with previous research, we find that people who are not in the labor force are less likely than those who are employed to enter parenthood. In most cases, we also find that young people who are in temporary employment are less likely than those who are permanently employed to start a family.Conclusions Our study demonstrates that foreign-born people living in Sweden tend to adapt to the behavior of native-born Swedes, and that patterns for women and men are largely similar. We relate these findings to the equalizing impact of the country's universal welfare regime.
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- Lundström, Karin
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Jämlikhet mellan kvinnor och män i EG-rätten : en feministisk analys
- 1999
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The thesis describes the development of the enactment of European Community Law in the field of sexual equality during the period of 1957-1997. With post-modern feminist theory as its point of departure, and with post-structuralist linguistics as method, it then analyses the argumentation of the EC Court of Justice in its interpretation of EC legislation during the same period. My aim is to examine in how far Community legislation implements a sexual equality with a genuine substance that exists not merely formally but also in reality. The thesis is divided into three parts; theory and method, EC legislation, and the practice of the Court of Justice. The first part begins with general definitions of the key legal terms direct and indirect discrimination and formal and substantive equality. It continues with a description of what a post-modern, feminist perspective means for one´s view of knowledge, of human beings, of the normative effect of legal system and also of sex. Subsequently there follows a historical survey of ideas concerning sexual norms in the thinking of social philosophy, which aims to crystallize from the work of some highly influential social philosophers some key sexual norms that are still operative in the argu- mentation of the Court of Justice. The method for the argumentation analysis assumes that language with the purpose of creating meaning is built up around sex-coded, hierarchically organized dichotomies and that the prevalent sexual order is thus constantly re-created in the logic of language. The second part contains a chronological description of all 33 pieces of legislation that were enacted in the field of jurisprudence during the period 1957-1997. In the third part I present a critical argumentation analysis of all of the Court´s 113 rulings during the period I have studied. Here I show how the Court fitted the key legal terms direct and indirect discrimination and formal and substantive equality into a sex-coded hierarchically organized logic. The result was that the prohibition of sexual discrimination became inoperative as soon as discrimination referring explicitly to the sex and civil status of women had ceased to exist, i.e., as soon as the language had become formally sexually neutral.
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