Cohort Fertility Patterns in the Nordic Countries (2009)
Gunnar Andersson, Marit Rønsen, Lisbeth B. Knudsen, Trude Lappegård, Gerda Neyer, Kari Skrede, ...
Previous analyses of period fertility suggest that the trends of the Nordic countries are sufficiently similar to speak of a common "Nordic fertility regime". We investigate whether this...
Sampling Methods Applied to Dense Instances of Non-Boolean Optimization Problems (2007)
Gunnar Andersson, Lars Engebretsen
Abstract. We study dense instances of optimization problems with variables taking values in Zp. Specifically, we study systems of functions from Z k p to Zp where the objective is to make as many...
Suggested running head: New Use of Semidenite Programming (2007)
Gunnar Andersson, Lars Engebretsen
We introduce a new method to construct approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems using semidenite programming. It consists of expressing each combinatorial object in the...
LPI Performance of an Adaptive Frequency-Hopping System in an HF Interference Environment (2007)
Abstract--- Frequency-hopping is considered to be an effective method for combating active jamming in military radio systems. To further improve the performance, so-called adaptive frequency-hopping...
Gunnar Andersson, Karsten Hank, Andres Vikat
Extending recent research on parental gender preferences in the Nordic countries, this study uses unique register data from Finland and Sweden (1971-1999) that provide us with the opportunity to...
Migration and first-time parenthood: Evidence from Kyrgyzstan (2007)
Lesia Nedoluzhko, Gunnar Andersson
This article investigates the reproductive behavior of young women and men in the post-Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, focusing on the link between migration and fertility. We employ...
This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of...
Social differentials in speed-premium effects in childbearing in Sweden (2006)
Gunnar Andersson, Ann-Zofie Duvander, Jan M. Hoem
In Sweden, parents receive a parental-leave allowance of a high percentage (currently 80%) of their pre-birth salary for about a year in connection with any birth. If they space their births...
Jan M. Hoem, Gunnar Andersson, Gerda Neyer
In this paper we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education taken in addition to the conventional level of education attained. Our empirical investigation uses...
Educational attainment and ultimate fertility among Swedish women born in 1955-59 (2006)
Jan M. Hoem, Gunnar Andersson, Gerda Neyer
This is the second of two companion papers addressing the association between educational attainment and fertility for some sixty educational groups of Swedish women, defined according to field of...
Erwerbsstatus und Familienentwicklung in Schweden aus paarbezogener Perspektive (2005)
Andersson, Gunnar, Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Hank, Karsten
Der Beitrag untersucht die Frage nach der Bedeutung von Erwerbsmerkmalen schwedischer Männer und Frauen für den Prozess der Familienentwicklung in Schweden aus paarbezogener Perspektive. Auf der...
Swedish family policies are not directly aimed at encouraging childbirth. Their main goal has rather been to support women's labour-force participation and to promote gender equality. The focus is to...
Von Der Lippe, Holger, Andersson, Gunnar
This paper deals with psychological determinants of fertility differentials in East Germany in the 1990s. We test the explanatory and statistical power of psychological covariates in an event-history...
Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Andersson, Gunnar
In Sweden, the birth of a child induces the right to more than one year of paid parental leave that can be shared between the parents. This paper examines the relationship between the father's and...
Childlessness and educational attainment among Swedish women born in 1955-59 (2005)
Hoem, Jan M., Neyer, Gerda R., Andersson, Gunnar
In this paper, we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education attained in addition to the conventional level of education. Our empirical investigation uses register...
Social differentials in speed-premium effects in childbearing in Sweden (2005)
Andersson, Gunnar, Hoem, Jan M., Duvander, Ann-Zofie
In Sweden, parents receive a parental-leave allowance of a high percentage of their pre-birth salary for about a year in connection with any birth. (The percentage has changed over time, as has the...
Contemporary research on European fertility: introduction (2004)
Neyer, Gerda R., Andersson, Gunnar
This paper introduces a collection of related studies on different aspects of research on European fertility and family dynamics. The authors who have contributed to this special volume presented...
Hank, Karsten, Andersson, Gunnar, Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Kreyenfeld, Michaela, Spieß, C. Katharina
In diesem Beitrag wird der Zusammenhang zwischen öffentlicher Kinderbetreuung und individuellem Geburtenverhalten in zwei sehr unterschiedlichen wohlfahrtsstaatlichen und demographischen Kontexten...
Childbearing after migration: fertility patterns of foreign-born women in Sweden (2004)
The present study provides an investigation of patterns in child-bearing among foreign-born women in Sweden from the 1960s to the 1990s. Event-history techniques are applied to longitudinal...
Erwerbsstatus und Familienentwicklung in Schweden aus paarbezogener Perspektive (2004)
Andersson, Gunnar, Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Hank, Karsten
This paper investigates the role of men's and women's labor-market attachment in the process of family building in Sweden, taking the perspective of couples. Using register data for the years 1981 to...
Andersson, Gunnar, Scott, Kirk
This paper investigates the impact of labour-market attachment on entry into motherhood for foreign-born women in Sweden. The study uses a longitudinal, register-based data set consisting of the...
Andersson, Gunnar, Hank, Karsten, Rønsen, Marit, Vikat, Andres
It has been argued recently that a society's 'gender system' influences parents' sex preferences for children. If this was true, one should expect to find no evidence of such preferences in countries...
Andersson, Gunnar, Milewski, Nadja
Mehr als jedes vierte Ehepaar in Deutschland und Österreich trennt sich vor dem 15. Hochzeitstag. Zusammen mit Schweden liegen diese beiden Länder an der Spitze der Trennungsstatistik in Westeuropa.
Andersson, Gunnar, Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Hank, Karsten
We link population register data to information on regional child-care characteristics in order to estimate the influence of the latter on second and third-birth intensities of Swedish couples in...
Demographic trends in Sweden: an update of childbearing and nuptiality up to 2002 (2004)
In the present note, we present the main features of recent trends in vital family-demographic behavior in Sweden. For this purpose, published indices of marriage, divorce, and childbearing risks by...
In this paper, we present a number of descriptive measures on children's experience of family disruption and family formation. We use data from the Fertility and Family Surveys of 15 European...
The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparative overview of recent trends and patterns in childbearing in the three Scandinavian countries: Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. We use indexes pro-duced...
Demographic trends in Sweden: an update of childbearing and nuptiality through 2002 (2003)
In the present note, we display the main features of recent trends in vital family-demographic behavior in Sweden. We update previously published indexes of marriage, divorce, and childbearing risks...
När har vi råd att skaffa fler barn? En studie om hur inkomst påverkar fortsatt barnafödande (2003)
Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Andersson, Gunnar
This study investigates whether men's and women's income affect Swedish couples' propensities to have a second and a third child during the 1980s and the 1990s. The study is based on administrative...
Andersson, Gunnar, Duvander, Ann-Zofie, Hank, Karsten
We link population register data to information on regional child care characteristics in order to estimate the influence of the latter on second and third birth intensities of Swedish couples in...
Dissolution of unions in Europe: a comparative overview (2003)
In this paper, we present a number of descriptive measures of couples' experience of union dissolution in a wide range of European countries. We use data from the last round of Fertility and Family...
A new way to use semidefinite programming with applications to linear equations mod p (2001)
Gunnar Andersson, Lars Engebretsen
We introduce a new method to construct approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems using semidefinite programming. It consists of expressing each combinatorial object in the...
A New Way to Use Semidefinite Programming with Applications to Linear Equations mod p (2001)
Gunnar Andersson, Lars Engebretsen, Johan Håstad
We introduce a new method to construct approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems using semidefinite programming. It consists of expressing each combinatorial object in the...
A New Way to Use Semidefinite Programming with Applications to Linear Equations mod p (2001)
Gunnar Andersson, Lars Engebretsen, Johan Håstad
. We introduce a new method to construct approximation algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems using semidefinite programming. It consists of expressing each combinatorial object in the...
G.: “Software Problem Reporting and Resolution Process at ABB (2000)
Mira Kajko-mattsson, Stefan Forssander, Gunnar Andersson
A well-functioning process for reporting, analysing and resolving software problems is an important vehicle for establishing and retaining control over the development and maintenance of software...
Sampling Methods Applied to Dense Instances of Non-Boolean Optimization Problems (1998)
Gunnar Andersson, Lars Engebretsen
. We study dense instances of optimization problems with variables taking values in Zp . Specifically, we study systems of functions from Z k p to Zp where the objective is to make as many functions...
Better Approximation Algorithms and Tighter Analysis for SET SPLITTING and NOT-ALL-EQUAL SAT (1998)
Gunnar Andersson, Lars Engebretsen
We construct new approximation algorithms for Max Set Splitting and Max Not-All-Equal Sat, which when combined with existing algorithms give the best approximation results so far for these problems....
Better Approximation Algorithms and Tighter Analysis for (1997)
Gunnar Andersson, Lars Engebretsen
We construct new approximation algorithms for Max Set Splitting and Max Not-All-Equal Sat, which when combined with existing algorithms give the best approximation results so far for these problems....
Performance comparison of spreadspectrum methods in an HF interference environment (1995)
Since the interfering signals from other users of the spectrum is a main problem in HF communication, it is necessary to consider them when evaluating HF radio systems. Based on the Laycock-Gott...
Fertility developments in Norway and Sweden since the early 1960s
The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of recent trends in child-bearing in neighboring Norway and Sweden. We use indexes produced by applying indirect standardization to register data of...
Ann-Zofie Duvander, Gunnar Andersson
In Sweden, the birth of a child induces the right to more than one year of paid parental leave that can be shared between the parents. This paper examines the relationship between the father’s and...
Swedish family policies are not directly aimed at encouraging childbirth. Their main goal has rather been to support women’s labour-force participation and to promote gender equality. The focus is...
This paper deals with psychological determinants of fertility differentials in East Germany in the 1990s. We test the explanatory and statistical power of psychological covariates in an event-history...
Childlessness and educational attainment among Swedish women born in 1955-59
Jan M. Hoem, Gerda R. Neyer, Gunnar Andersson
In this paper, we extend the concept of educational attainment to cover the field of education attained in addition to the conventional level of education. Our empirical investigation uses register...
Approaching the Limit: Long-Term Trends in Late and Very Late Fertility
Francesco C. Billari, Hans-Peter Kohler, Gunnar Andersson, Hans Lundström
Migration and first-time parenthood
Lesia Nedoluzhko, Gunnar Andersson
This article investigates the reproductive behavior of young women and men in the post-Soviet Central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, focusing on the link between migration and fertility. We employ...
Childbearing dynamics of couples in a universalistic welfare state
This article studies childbearing dynamics by labor-market status of co-residing parents in Sweden. We apply event-history techniques to longitudinal register data on the life histories of...
Cohort fertility patterns in the Nordic Countries
Gunnar Andersson, Marit Rønsen, Lisbeth B. Knudsen, Trude Lappegård, Gerda R. Neyer, Kari Skrede, ...
Previous analyses of period fertility suggest that the trends of the Nordic countries are sufficiently similar to speak of a common "Nordic fertility regime". We investigate whether this assumption...
High suburban fertility: evidence from four Northern European countries
Hill Kulu, Paul J. Boyle, Gunnar Andersson
This study examines fertility variation across different residential contexts in four Northern European countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We move beyond the conventional urban-rural...
Consequences of Family Policies on Childbearing Behavior: Effects or Artifacts?
This article argues for a more careful consideration of theoretical and methodological approaches in studies of the effects of public policies, labeled here as family policies, on childbearing...
Cohort Fertility Patterns in the Nordic Countries
Gunnar Andersson, Marit Rønsen, Lisbeth B. Knudsen, Trude Lappegård, Gerda Neyer, Kari Skrede, ...
Previous analyses of period fertility suggest that the trends of the Nordic countries are sufficiently similar that we may speak of a common "Nordic fertility regime". We investigate whether this...
Hvidsten, Torgeir R., Lægreid, Astrid, Kryshtafovych, Andriy, Andersson, Gunnar, Fidelis, Krzysztof, Komorowski, Jan
Welfare state context, female earnings and childbearing
Gunnar Andersson, Michaela Kreyenfeld, Tatjana Mika
This paper investigates the role of female earnings in childbearing decisions in two very different European contexts. By applying event history techniques to German and Danish register data during...