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Discrimination by Gender and Social Distance

Dufwenberg, Martin; Muren, Astri - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002

discrimination, and suggest that it may be problematic to organize experimental findings in terms of social distance. …

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Do Domestic Educations Even Out the Playing Field? Ethnic Labor Market Gaps in Sweden

Nekby, Lena; Vilhelmsson, Roger; Özcan, Gülay - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2007

The importance of investing in host country-specific human capital such as domestic language proficiency and domestic education is often cited as a determining factor for the labor market success of immigrants. This suggests that entirely domestic educations should even out the playing field...

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A matter of transient anonymity: Discrimination by gender and foreignness in online auctions

von Essen, Emma; Karlsson, Jonas Karlsson - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2013

This study shows that transient anonymity affects buyer discrimination based on seller’s gender and foreignness in … auction ends, the seller’s name is always disclosed to the buyer by eBay. We explore buyers’ discrimination in willingness to … pay, measured as price. Furthermore, we study how buyers’ discrimination in providing feedback is affected by sellers …

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Employment Convergence of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden

Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2002

This study examines the employment convergence patterns of various immigrant groups to natives in Sweden. Using data with annual information (1990-1997) on more than 200,000 individuals, the probability of being regularly employed is estimated, by gender and region of birth, for immigrants...

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Is Team Formation Gender Neutral? Evidence from coauthorship patterns.

Boschini, Anne; Sjögren, Anna - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2004

We model the formation of teams as a random matching process influenced by the agents’ preferences for team size and gender composition. We test hypotheses regarding gender and team preferences on the patterns of coauthorship in articles published 1991-2002 in three top economic journals. We...

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Gender in Committees

Dufwenberg, Martin; Muren, Astri - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2003

How does a group’s gender composition influence its decisions? Economists have found women to be more generous and egalitarian than men, so one might expect groups with more women to be more generous/egalitarian. Group polarization, whereby discussions amplify preexisting attitudes (a...

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Wage Differentials and Gender Discrimination - Changes in Sweden 1981-1998

Johansson, Mats; Katz, Katarina; Nyman, Håkan - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2001

The purpose of this paper is to follow the development of the Swedish gender earnings gap through the 1980s and 1990s. We follow the changes in the wage gap and in factors to which it can be related, step-by-step, and year-by- year. This is done by analysing cross sectional data from...

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Sector Differences in Glass Ceiling in Sweden -Is It Tied to Occupational Segregation?

Özcan, Gülay - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

This paper explores sector differences in how the gender wage gap varies across the wage distribution and the role of occupational segregation in explaining this variation for Sweden. Results indicate that the phenomenon known as the glass ceiling, i.e. larger gender wage differentials at the...

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Gender and Self-Selection Into a Competitive Environment: Are Women More Overconfident Than Men?

Nekby, Lena; Skogman Thoursie, Peter; Vahtrik, Lars - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2007

Using a large running race in Sweden, this study shows that there are male-dominated environments in which the selection of women who participate are more likely to be confident/competitive and that, within this group, performance improves equally for both genders.

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Between Meritocracy and Ethnic Discrimination: The Gender Difference

Arai, Mahmood; Moa Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2008

Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...

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