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Work patterns and capital utilisation : an international comparative study
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Work Patterns and Capital Utilisation, with a preface by Edmond Malinvaud, is a detailed and comprehensive investigation dealing with microeconomic issues of the decision making process that lead to the adoption of particular work patterns. The book considers both the micro and macroeconomic consequences for capital utilisation, productivity growth and employment. It discusses alternative measures of capital utilisation and provides detailed comparative international information of work patterns and capital utilisation over the post-War period. The book includes two comparative international studies of work patterns and capital utilisation in the automobile industry. Policy issues at both the individual, firm and national level are addressed.
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- Andersson, Per-Åke, 1954, et al.
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Older volunteers in Sweden: A welfare state in transition
- 2014
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Ingår i: Active ageing : voluntary work by older people in Europe / edited by Andrea Principi, Per H. Jensen and Giovanni Lamura. - : Policy Press. - 9781447307204 ; , s. 197-216
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Beyond retirement : who stays at work after the standard age of retirement?
- 2019
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Ingår i: International journal of manpower. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0143-7720 .- 1758-6577. ; 40:5, s. 917-938
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Purpose Drawing on a unique combination of longitudinal administrative data and a postal survey, the purpose of this paper is to identify the socio-economic factors and individual characteristics that affect senior citizens' decision to continue working on the Swedish labour market after the standard retirement age. Design/methodology/approach By using standard econometric techniques (multinomial logit model) on a large representative sample of 20,000 senior citizens residing in Sweden, the auhtors analyse the extent to which socio-economic factors and individual characteristics including personality traits affect the decision of senior citizens to delay retirement and to continue working after the standard retirement age. Findings The results of our estimations show clearly that good health, high educational attainment/high-skilled jobs, good psychosocial work environment, employment status (to be self-employed), personality traits (extraversion, openness to experience and conscientiousness) as well as industrial sectors (agriculture, healthcare and transport) are strong predictors of the continuation of work after the standard retirement age (65 years old). Originality/value To the best of the authors' knowledge, the paper is the first attempt in Sweden to analyse jointly a large range of factors influencing the decision to remain in the labour force after the standard/normal pension age, including psychosocial working conditions and personality traits.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Bogus-self-employment in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Self-Employment as precarious work. - Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781788115025 - 9781788115032 ; , s. 153-169
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This chapter analyses to what extent bogus self-employment is prevalent in Sweden and identifies institutional and economic factors that may explain its magnitude and development. Drawing on the last wave of the European Working Conditions Survey and using standard econometric techniques we analyse the prevalence of bogus self-employed in the EU-28 and Nordic countries and examine main differences between self-employment and bogus self-employment. We find that Sweden displays a lower incidence of bogus self-employed compared to other EU member states. Bogus self-employment appears to be more prevalent in certain segments of the labour market, in particular in industries such as construction, transport and personal household services. The specificity of the industrial relations system in Sweden, with strong social partners, high union density and coverage rate of collective agreements in all sectors of the economy, may explain the limited development of bogus self-employment and relatively low incidence compared to other member states.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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Convergence towards better working and living conditions : The crucial role of industrial relations in Sweden
- 2019
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Ingår i: Towards Convergence in Europe. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781788978071 - 9781788978064 ; , s. 398-435
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- One of the basic elements of the Swedish model is a strong contractual tradition and the crucial role played by the social partners in mechanisms for regulating labour market, working conditions and wage formation. The bipartite and contractual nature of labour market regulations coupled with the high union density and high coverage rate of collective bargaining create a favourable institutional environment for the emergence of negotiated compromises aimed at balancing flexibility and security in the labour market. Sweden constitutes, therefore, a good illustration of a flexicurity regime based on negotiated flexibility and largely explains why Sweden remains a country with decent working conditions, low income disparities and extended social justice. A compressed wage structure with relatively high wage floors have also prevented the development of low-skilled jobs in Sweden and instead have boosted policies favouring skill upgrading. In effect, large investment in research and development, a well-developed lifelong learning as well as a more balanced bargaining power between the two sides of industry have limited the tendency towards job and class polarisation in Sweden.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Därför vill 40-talisterna jobba efter 65
- 2017
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Ingår i: Ekonomisk Debatt. - : Nationalekonomiska föreningen. - 0345-2646. ; 45:5, s. 45-58
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Dagens generation av svenskar i åldersgruppen 65–74 år har en högre sysselsättningsgrad än tidigare generationer. I den här artikeln analyseras seniorernas motiv till att fortsätta att arbeta och varför andra går i pension, med fokus på vilka socioekonomiska faktorer som påverkar beslutet att fortsätta arbeta efter 65. Vi undersöker även om det finns vissa personlighets- och karaktärsdrag som utmärker de arbetande seniorerna, samt om det finns ett samband mellan arbete efter 65 och den allmänna tillfredsställelsen med livet.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Gender Differences in Time-Use over the Life Course : a Comparative Analysis of France, Italy, Sweden, and the United States
- 2011
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Ingår i: Feminist Economics. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 1354-5701 .- 1466-4372. ; 17:3, s. 159-195
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This contribution analyzes how men and women in France, Italy, Sweden, and the United States use their time over the life cycle and the extent to which societal and institutional contexts influence the gender division of labor. Inorder to test the hypothesis that contextual factors play a crucial role in shaping time allocation, this study considers countries that diverge considerably in terms of welfare state regime, employment and paid working time systems, familypolicies, and social norms. Using national time-use surveys for the late 1990s andearly 2000s and regression techniques, the study not only finds large gender discrepancies in time use in each country at all stages of life but also determinesthat institutional contexts, in particular the design of family policies and employment regimes, do shape gender roles in different ways, and that Sweden displays the lowest gender gap in time allocation across the life course.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Impact of late and prolonged working life on subjective health : the Swedish experience
- 2019
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Ingår i: European Journal of Health Economics. - : Springer. - 1618-7598 .- 1618-7601. ; 20:3, s. 389-405
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper explores the relationship between the prolongation of working life and subjective health. Drawing on a unique combination of longitudinal data and the results of a postal survey in Sweden, we investigate the health consequences of extending working life beyond the normal retirement age of 65. To do this, we compare the health status of two groups of retired people: one group who left the labour market completely at the age of 65, and a second group who remained in employment after the age of 65. Using a standard linear probability model and controlling for a range of socio-economic variables as well as previous labour market experiences, perceived life expectancy, pre-retirement income and health, our estimations show that those continuing to work after 65 on average display a 6.8% higher probability of reporting better health during retirement than those leaving at the age of 65. However, we find that this positive correlation between the extension of working life and health is only transitory. After 6 years of retirement, the health advantage of working after the normal retirement age disappears. Furthermore, we did not find any evidence that working after the age of 65 is positively correlated with physical fitness, self-reported depressive symptoms or well-being.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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Industrial relations, social dialogue and the transformation of the world of work : The Swedish experience
- 2021
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Ingår i: The New World of Work. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800888050 - 9781800888043 ; , s. 465-490
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite a decline in union density over the last two decades, the Swedish social partners remain the main actors responsible for labour market norms and regulations affecting the terms and conditions of employment. The Swedish experience remains a good illustration of the positive “productive” role played by a developed bipartite social dialogue based on powerful and independent social partners, especially regarding the mitigation of potentially negative consequences of globalization, external macroeconomic shocks, rapid structural and technological changes, and the transformation of the world of work. The Swedish flexicurity regime, based on negotiated flexibility, creates a favourable institutional environment for negotiated compromises aimed at balancing flexibility, security, efficiency and social justice in an open economy strongly exposed to international competition and growing economic turbulence. The Swedish IR system has favoured growth-enhancing structural change, limited job polarization, and significantly contributed to the development of a knowledge-intensive economy, reinforcing the competitiveness of the Swedish economy and fostering full employment and balanced growth.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Mer nöje än nödvändigt ont att fortsatta arbeta
- 2018
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Ingår i: Äldre i Centrum: tidskrift för aktuell äldreforskning. - Stockholm : Stiftelsen Stockholms läns äldrecentrum. - 1653-3585. ; :2
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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Negotiated flexibility in Sweden : A more egalitarian response to the crisis?
- 2011
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Ingår i: Work inegalities in the crisi. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9780857937506 - 0857937502 ; , s. 445-476
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter provides an in-depth overview of the effects of the global financial crisis on inequalities in the world of work in sweden . It examines these inequalities multidimensionally, looking at employment, wages and incomes, working conditions, and social dialogue, and investigates whether the crisis may halt the progress made in Sweden toward better quality jobs and working conditions. The cahpter k includes assessments of national trends and analysysis odf swedish case studies on individual enterprises or sectors as well as policy solutions adopted at the national and local levels.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Self-employment and parental leave
- 2015
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Ingår i: Small Business Economics. - : Springer. - 0921-898X .- 1573-0913. ; 45:4, s. 751-770
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- The main objective of this paper is to analyse the extent to which employment status impacts upon the use of parental leave in Sweden. Our results show that during the child’s first two years of life Swedish female self-employees use on average 46 fewer days in parental leave (15 percent) than female wage earners, while male self-employees use on average 27 fewer days in parental leave (71 percent) than their wage earner counterparts. We argue that the shorter average duration of parental leave among male self-employees is due to a combination of relatively higher costs of absence from work for self-employees compared to wage earners and a participation selection effect where some individuals with high performance-related income opt for self-employment and do not take parental leave at all, and where the self-employed who actually choose to take parental leave are similar to wage earners in terms of work-commitments and consequently reduces the difference in duration between self-employed and wage earners. On the other hand, given that all mothers, self-employees or wage earners, take parental leave, we do not find a participation effect among female self-employees. Instead, we suspect that there is an employment selection effect where women with high performance related income choose self-employment and consequently contributes to the shorter observed durations of parental leave for female self-employees.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Senior citizens' intrinsic and extrinsic work motivation
- 2023
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Ingår i: International journal of manpower. - : Emerald Group Publishing Limited. - 0143-7720 .- 1758-6577. ; 44:9, s. 216-236
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- PurposeIt is important to understand why some workers prolong their working life even though they are entitled to statutory pension benefits. This paper aims to investigate whether senior workers are motivated by external factors such as pay and social expectations (extrinsic motivation) or are primarily motivated by internal factors such as job satisfaction (intrinsic motivation). This is a central question for policymakers and social partners when it comes to the design of public pension systems and work organisation.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a combined longitudinal administrative data and an own-designed postal survey to ask individuals aged 65–76 years to describe their work motivation. Based on the answers, this study constructs an index of autonomous motivation (AM) where a value of zero implies only extrinsic motivation and a value of one implies only intrinsic motivation. The values between zero and one thus imply various grades of AM, where higher values signal motivation that is more autonomous and hence a higher degree of intrinsic work motivation.FindingsThe results of the statistical analysis show that the extent of intrinsic motivation is higher among senior workers who retired aged 65 years or older compared to those who retired at 65 years or younger. In addition, this study found that the degree of intrinsic work motivation among senior workers decreases when they face economic and financial constraints. It also found that intrinsic motivation is more prevalent among high-skilled workers.Research limitations/implicationsThis study shows that individuals who continue to work after 65 are mostly motivated by the satisfaction they derive from their job. Job satisfaction is strongly related to skill level, job quality, job content and job autonomy. Results indicate that job quality and commitment to work are essential elements for motivating seniors to postpone retirement.Originality/valueThis study contributes to this literature by applying a multidisciplinary approach from organisational psychology and labour economics that considers the potential importance of intrinsic motivation to work after standard retirement age. The authors think that this approach enhances the understanding of the mechanisms behind the lengthening of working life. Finally, this study suggests a simple, but efficient way of empirically measuring the extent of intrinsic motivation among workers.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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Shaping the future of work in Sweden : the crucial role of social partnership
- 2018. - 1
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Ingår i: Reducing inequalities in Europe. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781788116282 - 9781788116299 - 9789221300069 ; , s. 519-554
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- One of the basic elements of the Swedish model is a strong contractual tradition and the crucial role played by the social partners in mechanisms for regulating labour market, working conditions and wage formation. The bipartite and contractual nature of labour market regulations coupled with the high union density and high coverage rate of collective bargaining create a favourable institutional environment for the emergence of negotiated compromises aimed at balancing flexibility and security in the labour market. Sweden constitutes, therefore, a good illustration of a flexicurity regime based on negotiated flexibility and largely explains why Sweden remains a country with decent working conditions, low income disparities and extended social justice. A compressed wage structure with relatively high wage floors have also prevented the development of low-skilled jobs in Sweden and instead have boosted policies favouring skill upgrading. In effect, large investment in research and development, a well-developed lifelong learning as well as a more balanced bargaining power between the two sides of industry have limited the tendency towards job and class polarisation in Sweden.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Shaping the life course : a European Perspective
- 2010
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Ingår i: The welfare State and Life Transitions. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 1847207804 ; , s. 1-77
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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Strengthening the representativeness of the social partners and their institutional capacity to shape labour markets through social dialogue
- 2021
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Ingår i: The New World of Work. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781800888050 - 9781800888043 ; , s. 28-68
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The main objective of this chapter is to analyse the transformations of IR systems and social dialogue in Europe during the last three decades and the extent to which we observe some convergence/divergence. The last decades have seen a clear decline in union density and coverage rates of collective bargaining and a marked tendency towards decentralisation of collective bargaining. The period has therefore been characterised by a weakening of the capacity of social partners to regulate the labour market and to an increase of state interventions (labour market deregulation) leaving more scope to market forces and/or unilateral decisions of employers regarding pay and working conditions. If the policy objective of the EU and its member states is to move towards IR systems characterised by powerful and autonomous social partners playing a crucial role in the production of labour market norms, there is a long way to go. Uncertainty therefore continues to overshadow the political and institutional conditions needed for convergence towards an IR regime favouring labour market governance based on autonomous and strong social partners.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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The demand of part-time in European companies : a multilevel modelling approach
- 2012
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Ingår i: Applied Economics. - : Taylor & Francis. - 0003-6846 .- 1466-4283. ; 44:8, s. 1057-1066
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- Part-time work is one of the most well-known « atypical » working time arrangements. In contrast to previous studies focusing on the supply side, the originality of our research is to investigate the demand-side of part-time work and to examine how and why companies use part-time work. Based on a large and unique sample of European firms operating in 21 member states, we use a multilevel multinomial modeling in a Bayesian environment. Our results suggest that the variations in the extent of part-time workers at the establishment level is determined more by country-specific features than by industry specific factors.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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The rise and fall of the Swedish middle class?
- 2016. - 1
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Ingår i: Europe's disappearing middle class?. - : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781786430595 - 9781786430601 ; , s. 543-585
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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The Swedish welfare state in times of crisis : resilience and success
- 2014
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Ingår i: Economia & Lavoro. - 0012-978X .- 1827-8949. ; XLVIII:2, s. 9-30
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The main objective of this article is twofold: Firstly, to identify the major transformations of the Swedish Welfare State focusing principally on the structural reforms initiated during the last two decades and their impact on economic development, the distribution of social welfare and on income inequalities. Secondly, to explore the role of the Swedish Welfare State in mitigating the negative impact of the 2008 Great Recession. The early fiscal consolidation measures and the structural reforms undertaken since the second half of the 1990s have without doubt contributed to securing the long-term sustainability of the Swedish social protection system and fostering more healthy public finances. However, the “Swedish success story” during the last recession cannot only be reduced to early fiscal consolidation measures and structural reforms. It is clear that the automatic stabilisers embedded in the Swedish Welfare State, the counter-cyclical macroeconomic policy conducted by the Swedish government and a developed social dialogue have all contributed to alleviating the negative impacts of the 2008-crisis on employment, welfare and social exclusion. The Swedish experience illustrates above all the resilience, the long-term viability and the success of a societal model based on an universal and generous social protection system, egalitarianism, pro-active policies for promoting gender equality and fighting against social exclusion, and a strong public and political involvement in the provision of a wide range of services.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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Time allocation and working time preferences : a gender and life course perspective
- 2016
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Ingår i: Den Arbeitsmarkt verstehen, um ihn zu gestalten. - Wiesbaden : Springer. - 9783658121587 - 9783658121594 ; , s. 71-84
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- Why write a chapter on working time when Gerhard Bosch and I have been for a long time gently arguing and quarrelling over the overall efficiency of a general reduction of working time and its potential impact on unemployment? Well, because in spite of our minor academic controversy, time has not eroded our friendship, our mutual esteem, or our 20 year-long scientific collaboration.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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Turbulent times and beyond : the Swedish experience
- 2017. - 1
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Ingår i: Talking through the crisis. - Geneva : International Labour Office (ILO). - 9789221304944 - 9789221305194 ; , s. 281-295
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Undervärderade effekter av ett längre arbetsliv i Europa
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Ingår i: Europapolitisk analys. - Stockholm : Sieps - Svenska Institutet för Europapolitiska studier. ; 4
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- Under de senaste 40 åren har sysselsättningsgraden för åldersgruppen 55-64 år utvecklats likartati Danmark, Frankrike, Italien, Nederländerna, Polen, Storbritannien, Sverige och Tyskland. Enminskning har skett fram till mitten av 1990-talet och därefter en ökning. Gemensamt för dessaåtta länder är även att de högutbildade lämnar arbetskraften vid i genomsnitt högre åldrar än delågutbildade och att alternativa anställningsformer (tillfälliga anställningar, egenföretagande, deltidsarbete)är vanligare i högre åldrar. Å andra sidan finns det avsevärda skillnader mellan ländernanär det gäller såväl nuvarande sysselsättningsgrad för äldre och kvinnor som förekomsten av egenföretagandeoch deltidsanställning bland äldre.Syftet med den här analysen är att belysa den övergripande utvecklingen och den aktuella situationenför arbetstagare mellan 50 och 74 år i de åtta länderna. Den sammanfattar också villkoren förden äldre arbetskraften och diskuterar hur nationell politik bör anpassas till ett förlängt arbetsliv.Dessutom presenteras statistik och tidigare studier om de äldres sysselsättning och välfärd.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-
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Upskilling to avoid jobs’ polarisation and growing income inequalities : the Swedish experience
- 2016
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Ingår i: Economia & Lavoro. - Roma : Carocci editore. - 0012-978X .- 1827-8949. ; 50:2, s. 13-24
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- Taking a broad historical perspective, this article analyses the development of the Swedish class structure. During the last decades, Sweden experienced a relative decrease in its middle class and a stronger polarisation of its class structure. Three potential factors can explain this development: changes in labour market behaviour, a reduction of the extent of decommodification of the Swedish welfare state and large structural changes in employment and occupational structure. We show that the long-term tendency towards an upgrading of occupational structure in Sweden has benefitted the upper middle class and the top-income group. Indeed, the large investment in research and development, the expansion of education and the increase in the demand of high-skilled jobs have limited the tendency towards job polarisation found in liberal market-orientated welfare states. Weakly linked to the modifications in the skill structure, the decrease of the middle class appears to be better explained by the postponement of entry into the labour market related to the expansion of education and by social protection reforms that negatively affected the disposable income of vulnerable groups.
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Who employ senior workers? : Firm characteristics, working conditions, and employers’ main motivations
- 2017
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Ingår i: Presented at International interdisciplinary conference on HRM, Gothenburg, 23-25 March, 2017.
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- We use a unique Swedish company survey data to investigate the central characteristics of workplaces and firms that are employing old workers. We address four research questions: What are the main features of the companies/establishments employing senior workers? How do working conditions and work environments affect the demand of senior workers? What are the main reasons and motivations of employers to keep senior workers after the age of 65? What are the employers’ views regarding the efficiency of government policies to prolong working life? It is found that there is a large variation of firms with employees older than 65 between firm size and industry sectors. The main motivation to keep old workers is found to be the employees’ key competences and employees’ willingness to stay. Employers mainly support policy measures that encourage senior employees to continue working.
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- Anxo, Dominique, 1953-, et al.
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Work and care regime and women's employment outcomes : Australia, France and Sweden compared
- 2017. - 1
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Ingår i: Making work more equal. - Manchester : Manchester University Press. - 9781526117069 - 9781526125972 ; , s. 309-329
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- Using a gender perspective and a comparative approach, this paper assesses the extent to which national care regimes and family policies interact and impact upon female employment outcomes. We restrict our analysis to Australia, France and Sweden, three advanced market economies with contrasting employment and care regimes. For the employment regime we focus on paid work across the life course and we focus on parental leave and childcare as indicative of the care regime. Previous comparative studies have clearly shown that the gender division of labour between paid work, care and domestic activities is strongly dependent on prevailing societal norms and the institutional and societal context, in particular the characteristics of the parental leave systems, the availability and cost of childcare services, the provision of care when older people become partially or fully dependent, and more globally on employment and working time regimes and the design of tax and family policies. Our central argument is therefore that family and care policies play a crucial role in shaping the patterns of men’s and women’s employment. The comparison shows the importance of institutional arrangements and that lack of affordable child care facilities and poor parental leave arrangements across the life course reduce female, particularly maternal, labour supply both in terms of labour force participation and working time participation.
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