Using linked employer-employee data, this paper estimates the effect of collective bargaining coverage on wages over an … robustness checks. Joining a sectoral agreement is found always to produce higher wages, while exiting a sectoral agreement no …

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings …

In this paper, we use matched worker-firm register data from Sweden to examine the career dynamics of high-skill women … and men. Specifically, we track wages for up to 20 years among women and men born in the years 1960 - 70 who completed a … university degree in business or economics. These women and men have similar wages and earnings at the start of their careers …