Scientific article
2. NOV 2012
2. NOV 2012
The Elderly
Children, Adolescents and Families
The Elderly, Children, Adolescents and Families
Anna Amilon
The Elderly
Labour Market
The Elderly, Labour Market
Key Expertise:
- Handicap,
- Care
Areas of work
Anna Amilon is currently working with analyses on challenges related to the ageing population, including elderly people’s withdrawal from the job market, voluntary work, preferences regarding eldercare and use of welfare technology in eldercare. Her research interests also include socioeconomic effects of social interventions, pension, employment, family policy and equality.
Methods
Anna Amilon's core competencies are in quantitative registry and survey analyses. She has many years’ experience with effect measurement and socioeconomic analysis. Moreover, via several research projects and desk studies she has acquired in-depth knowledge of some of the longer term panel investigations carried out by VIVE, including SHILD (Survey of Health, Impairment and Living Conditions in Denmark) and Ældredatabasen (the Elderly Database).
Background
After completing her PhD at Lund University, Sweden, i 2007, Anna Amilon was employed at the former SFI, now VIVE, as a researcher. She was promoted to Senior Researcher in 2010, and in the former SFI she was Head of Programme for the pension area and Head of Research of the former department for Social policy and Welfare. Through the FSE-financed research projects “The effects of child spacing on educational achievements and incomes in adulthood” and ”The effects of a legal reform on divorce probabilities and pension savings”, for instance, she has accumulated knowledge about effect measurement, pension and employment as well as equality effects of interventions. In the ongoing research project ”MATURE – Meeting the Challenges in Population Ageing Through Innovation and Cultural Adaptation of Welfare Society” for Innovationsfonden (Innovation Fund Denmark), Anna Amilon is carrying out research on elderly people’s voluntary work and preferences regarding the elder service of the future. In addition, she has performed research on socioeconomic effects of social interventions, pension, employment and family policy and equality. In 2013, Anna Amilon was appointed Associate Professor at Lund University, Sweden.
Selected publications
Scientific article
1. DEC 2013
1. DEC 2013
Labour Market
Labour Market
Amilon, A., & Persson, I. (2013). Scientific (Wo)manpower? Gender and the Composition and Earnings of PhDs in Sweden. International journal of manpower, 34(6), 658-673. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJM-06-2013-0146
Scientific article
1. DEC 2010
1. DEC 2010
- Labour Market
Amilon, A. (2010). Active Labour Market Programes, job search and job finding in Denmark. Labour - review of labour economics and industrial relations, 24(3), 279–294. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2010.00485.x
Scientific article
1. DEC 2010
1. DEC 2010
- Labour Market, Children, Adolescents and Families
Amilon, A. (2010). The Temporary Leave Dilemma -: Lone and Partnered Mothers in Sweden. Feminist Economics, 16(4), 33-52. Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1080/13545701.2010.530604
Scientific article
1. FEB 2009
1. FEB 2009
- Labour Market
Amilon, A. (2009). Satisfaction and 'comparison sharing': What Influences Swedish Parents' Satisfaction with the Sharing of Parental Leave. Journal of Socio Economics, 38(4), 630-640. Article 4. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socec.2009.02.005
Scientific article
1. DEC 2009
1. DEC 2009
- Labour Market
Amilon, A., & Wallette, M. (2009). Work Absence: A Signalling Factor for Temporary Workers. LABOUR: Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 23(1), 171-194. Article 1. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9914.2008.00445.x
Scientific article
1. DEC 2007
1. DEC 2007
- Labour Market
Amilon, A. (2007). On the Sharing of Temporary Parental Leave: The case of Sweden. review of economics of the household, 5(4), 385-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11150-007-9015-0
