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Is there a glass ceiling in Sweden?

Albrecht, James W.; Björklund, Anders; Vroman, Susan B. - 2001

Using data from 1998, we show that the gender log wage gap in Sweden increases throughout the wage distribution and …

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Inequality and the working class in Scandinavia 1800 to 1910 : workers' share of growing income

Bengtsson, Erik - 2016

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The effect of a massive wage push on income distribution and employment : evidence from the 1920 eight-hour workday reform in Sweden and its aftermath

Bengtsson, Erik; Molinder, Jakob - 2016

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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting

Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015

We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...

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Care more, earn less? : the association between care leave for sick children and wage among Swedish parents

Boye, Katarina - 2015

A number of studies have shown that women’s and men’s wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in particular, but we know little about the possible wage impact of leave to care for sick children, which is a part of the Swedish parental leave system. On the one hand, care...

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Markets and politics : the Swedish urban–rural wage gap, 1865 - 1985

Lundh, Christer; Prado, Svante - In: European review of economic history 19 (2015) 1, pp. 67-87

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From wage regulation to wage gap : how wage-setting institutions and structures shape the gender wage gap across three industries in 24 European countries and Germany

Schäfer, Andrea; Gottschall, Karin - In: Cambridge journal of economics 39 (2015) 2, pp. 467-496

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Occupational gender composition and wages in Sweden

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 2000

We estimate the relationship between wages and occupational gender segregation in Sweden. Because of high wage equality … in Sweden compared to the U.S., we expect a lower wage penalty of job femaleness in Sweden than in the U.S. Our results …

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Endogenous schooling and the distribution of the gender wage gap

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999

Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there exists a number of recent studies, devoted to estimating the return to education, that have shown that OLS may produce biased estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if...

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Employment choices and pay differences between non-standard and standard work in Britain, Germany, Netherlands and Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv S.; Kenjoh, Eiko; Wetzels, Cécile M. M. P. - 2001

, GSOEP for Germany, OSA for the Netherlands and HUS for Sweden.The reason for analysing and comparing four countries is an … women in the other three countries. Similarly the probabilityof being self employed for men in Sweden is much higher than in … the other three countries. Furthermorewe find part-time workers relatively better paid in Sweden and the Netherlands than …

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