This paper investigates occupational segregation by gender in the Finnish private sector during the period 1995 … genders have decreased during the investigation period occupational segregation by gender is still high in the Finnish labour … industry. Segregation is much higher in the male-dominated industries than in the female-dominated or in the gender …

When parents are more educated, their children tend to receive more schooling as well. Does this occur because parental … ability is passed on genetically or because more educated parents provide a better environment for children to flourish? Using … an intergenerational sample of families, we estimate on the basis of a comparison of biological and adopted children that …

unique linked register data on students, their parents, teachers, educational organisations and business companies in Finland …

We examine gender differences in careers using a large linked employer-employee dataset on Finnish white … men start their careers from higher ranks of the hierarchy than women do, although gender differences in education explain … market, amplifying the gender differences in hierarchical positions already apparent at labour market entry. Men earn higher …

Unequal division of labor within families is often mentioned as one of the main factors behind the gender wage gap …. However, the research that explicitly focuses on the mechanisms through which the family type affects women’s wages is … relatively small. The purpose of this paper is to describe the main findings of the existing studies of the so-called family gap …

This descriptive paper investigates occupational segregation by gender during the 1980s and 1990s among white … cannot be explained by relying on the gender differences in the educational background. The results also show that men and …

-innovation workers. In a second step, this analysis is broken down by gender. We apply a decomposition method based on unconditional …. Also the sources underlying these wage differentials vary between the countries. The levels and profiles of the gender wage …, when it comes to the major sources contributing to these gender wage gaps, the results are strikingly similar across …