We investigate skill mismatch and its impact on gender differences in wage gap and in returns to education in Sweden … (overeducation), while men are more likely to have less (undereducation).Over- and undereducation contribute far more to the gender … wage gap than years of schooling and work experience. In decompositions, adjusting for skill mismatch decreases the gender …

Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference … may be due to discrimination of boys. We rigorously test this in a field experiment where a random sample of the same … inflation are important in non-blind grading. But we find no evidence of discrimination against boys. The point estimate of the …

extent to which the gender log wage gap across the distribution in Sweden has changed over the period 1998-2008. We then …

The ranking of colleges varies both across methods and model specifications. Still, earnings equations tend to be … consistent with regard to which colleges that on average are found in the top and bottom half of the earnings distribution … new colleges. Although ranking by earnings equations provide some information about the relation to earnings, endogeneity …

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender …'s relative wage gains, as compared to 1974. At this time, women gained in relative wages mainly because discrimination was …

results suggest an adverse impact on earnings of present workers in the order of 1 percent in areas close to pre …

This paper investigates the effect of parental leave – both own and spousal – on subsequent earnings using different … parent’s future earnings. Also spousal leave is important, but only for mothers. In fact, each month the father stays on … parental leave has a larger positive effect on maternal earnings than a similar reduction in the mother’s own leave. Using two …

We investigate the relative significance of differences in cognitive skills and discrimination in explaining racial …

Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require …, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men … developments for men and women, we find that within-family specialization, measured by the average spousal earnings contribution …

A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in …