The paper addresses the question whether current tariffs for telecommunications services provided by the Swedish telecommunications company, Televerket (TVT), are optimal, second-best 'Ramsey' prices. Focusing on two tariffs for telecommunications services those on subscription and calling time...

For the U.S. and for Norway it has been established that men and women working in the same occupation for the same employer receive more or less the same pay. So-called within-job wage discrimination is hence not a driving force for the gender wage gap. We report a comparative and comprehensive...