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    Labour Market Trajectories and Young Europeans’ Capabilities to Avoid Poverty, Social Exclusion and Dependency: A Comparative Analysis of 23 European Countries

    Youth in 23 European countries are compared with regard to their risk for deprivation and poverty, taking into account individual labour histories. The risk for deprivation is negatively correlated with the GD...

    Björn Halleröd, Hans Ekbrand in Facing Trajectories from School to Work (2015)

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    Work Beyond Pension Age in Sweden: Does a Prolonged Work Life Lead to Increasing Class Inequalities Among Older People?

    This chapter investigates work beyond pension age in Sweden. The focus is on class inequalities among older workers and whether or not class-related inequalities have increased during the first decade of the 2...

    Björn Halleröd in Paid Work Beyond Pension Age (2015)

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    Would Active Labour Market Policies Enhance Youth Capability for Work in Europe?

    Activation has become one of the keys to integrate people into the labour market at the European level. The implementation of these policy lines raises acute questions as to whether the conditions are actually...

    Marion Lambert, Josiane Vero, Hans Ekbrand in Facing Trajectories from School to Work (2015)

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    Sweden: The Impact of Policy and Labour Market Transformation

    The discussion of in-work poverty (IWP) can be related to two interlinked perspectives: the policy perspective and the labour market perspective. The policy perspective relates to the ‘making work pay’ and ‘wo...

    Daniel Larsson, Björn Halleröd in Working Poverty in Europe (2011)

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    Doing Gender While Doing Couple: Concluding Remarks

    It has long been observed that money plays a central role in couple and family relationships (Pahl 1989; Zelizer 1989). Money ties people together, causes conflicts and injustices, allows independence and crea...

    Björn Halleröd, Capitolina Díaz, Janet Stocks in Modern Couples Sharing Money, Sharing Life (2007)