same time, India has one of the widest gender wage gaps in the world and women are less likely to be employed in the formal … advantage in services have the lowest gender wage gap, with women earning 24% less than their male counterpart, while women in … manufacturing earned on average 40% less than male workers. The Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition shows that the total gender wage gap in …

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the …

This paper presents evidence of how attitudes toward gender roles in the home and market are shaped by Hofstede's six … ancestry. The approach focuses attention on how gender roles are shaped across generations within families. Both influences on … the father's and mother's side are studied. Ancestry from more masculine cultures shape more traditional gender roles on …

We infer the role of gender identity norms from the reallocation of childcare across parents, following changes in …

In this paper, we study the link between globalization of firms and gender inequality. Specifically, we examine how the … need for interpersonal contacts in trade and gender-specific differences in negotiations are related to the gender wage gap …. Our key finding is that export of goods that are intensive in interpersonal contacts widens the gender wage gap. The …

In this study we examine the passage of a reform to in-vitro fertilization (IVF) procedures in Sweden in 2003 …

We present results from a unique nationwide survey conducted in Sweden on sexual orientation and job satisfaction. Our …

conformity in groups with varying gender composition. Overall, our experiments offer little evidence that gender composition …

performance from an exogenous change in female board participation in Sweden. We use the credible threat, aimed at listed firms …