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 … mitigated and/or the gender gap in unobserved skills was reduced. Between 1981 and 1991 there is a small increase in the gender …

This paper analyzes the effect of selection on ability on the evolution of the gender wage gap during the first years ….6 percentage point higher than their high-ability female counterparts. This contributed to the increase in the conditional gender … conditional gender wage gap between ages 21 and 36. …

difference. This raises the question of why the gender gap did not disappear when the importance of physical strength waned with … characteristics explain much, but not all, of this gender gap. To explain the remainder of the gap, we examine training and … firms explains the gender gap. We also find differences across firms by size and location. Smaller firms outside the major …

gender log wage gap among these workers. We then examine whether gender differences in firm-to-firm mobility help explain the … patterns in wages that we see. Men and women both exhibit greater mobility early in their careers, but there is little gender … difference in this firm-to-firm mobility. We find that the main driver of the gender difference in log wage profiles are that men …

large gender gap in the labour market participation and employment pathways. Lower employment rates and gender pay gaps, as … gender gaps in employment and pay, particularly for those at risk of interrupted careers, is key to ensure decent old …

since the 1980s, particularly pronounced among men in more gender-egalitarian households (proxied by the father's share of …

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 …

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

This article provides a comparative analysis of the development of the gender wage gap in West Germany and Sweden … traditions penetrate institutional settings and ensnare Germany in a cultural trap with regard to gender equality. While Sweden … Sweden, which can be explained in part by deeply held social attitudes. -- culture ; gender wage gap ; Germany ; Sweden …