We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …-European childhood immigrants and of those from Southern Europe suffer a wage disadvantage relative to natives, men to a larger extent … countries, the risk of overeducation is larger than it is for adult immigrants and the difference in adjusted wages between …

Anonymous application procedures (AAP) are increasingly promoted as a way to combat employment discrimination. The idea …

This paper presents LINDA - a register-based longitudinal data set for Sweden. LINDA consists of a large panel of …

We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to … identify the life-event of parenthood as a major cause of the gap. When men become fathers, they gain authority; when women … become mothers, they do not. Our fixed effects panel estimates of the effects of family factors deviate from the cross …

, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. These countries represent range of welfare states, both in terms of … objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

focus is on the individuals affected by the cutbacks at the LKAB iron ore mines in northern Sweden in 1983 and the closure … of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985. These workers not only experienced job loss, but were also the … target group for extraordinary labour market policies. Using register data from Statistics Sweden (labour market status …

of endogenous adjustment cost, minimum wages and an enforcement budget. We show that increasing the employment of legal …In this paper, we explore employers' decisions regarding the employment of legal and illegal immigrants in the presence … foreign workers will increase the number of illegal immigrants which will replace the employment of the local population and …

world of work are the subject of much debate. Although data are scarce, there is a general consensus that migrants are … overrepresented in this type of work. Platforms may well provide migrants with work opportunities, especially shortly after arrival … which platforms rely on migrants and create the conditions for exploitation compared to other workers is an important …