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Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden : education, returns to education and overeducation

Katz, Katarina; Österberg, Torun - 2013

We analyse full-time monthly wages of employees with parents born in Sweden and of childhood immigrants who arrived …

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German stagnation vs. Swedish progression : gender wage gaps in comparison, 1960 - 2006

Gärtner, Svenja - 2013

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 …

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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation : the role of workplaces and occupations

Eliasson, Tove - 2013

This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...

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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state dependence

Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...

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Receiving countries' perspectives : the case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014

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. …

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Manager impartiality? : worker-firm matching and the gender wage gap

Hensvik, Lena - 2011

This paper examines whether women benefit from working under female management using Swedish matched employer-employee panel data. I account for unobserved heterogeneity among both workers and firms potentially correlated with manager gender. The results show a substantial negative and...

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Inequality trends in Sweden 1978 - 2004

Domeij, David; Flodén, Martin - 2009

We document a clear increase in Swedish earnings inequality in the early 1990s. Inequality in disposable income and earnings net of taxes and transfers also increased, but much less than the increased inequality in pre-government earnings. These different developments are most likely explained...

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How Wage Compression Affects Job Turnover

Heyman, Fredrik - 2011

I use Swedish establishment-level panel data to test Bertola and Rogerson's (1997) hypothesis of a positive relation between the degree of wage compression and job reallocation. Results indicate that the effect of wage compression on job turnover is positive and significant in the manufacturing...

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Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks

Carlsson, Mikael - 2011

highly reliable firm-level output prices and quantities in the manufacturing sector in Sweden, we are able to derive measures …

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Overeducation Among Immigrants in Sweden : Incidence, Wage Effects and State-Dependence

Andersson, Pernilla - 2012

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...

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