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Workplace presenteeism, job substitutability and gender inequality

Azmat, Ghazala; Hensvik, Lena; Rosenqvist, Olof - 2020

Following the arrival of the first child, women’s absence rates soar and become less predictable due to the greater frequency of their own sickness and the need to care for sick children. In this paper, we argue that this fall in presenteeism in the workplace hurts women’s wages, not only...

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Explaining gender gap variation across assessment forms

Graetz, Georg; Karimi, Arizo - 2019

In Sweden, females outperform males on compulsory and high school GPAs by a third of a standard deviation, while males outperform females on the Swedish SAT by the same magnitude. We establish that GPAs capture different attributes and skills compared to SAT scores. Differences in motivation and...

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The gender gap in early career wage growth : the role of children, job mobility and occupational mobility

Reshid, Abdulaziz Abrar - 2017

the gender gap in early career wage growth. The analysis reveals that although job mobility and upward occupational … gender differences in observed individual and job characteristics, as well as unobserved individual specific heterogeneity …

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The career dynamics of high-skilled women and men : evidence from Sweden

Albrecht, Jim; Bronson, Mary Ann; Skogmann Thoursie, Peter - 2018

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 …

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Understanding the gender gap among turn-of-the-century Swedish compositors

Burnette, Joyce; Stanfors, Maria - 2018

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 …

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Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? : evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden

Rosenqvist, Olof - 2022

Using administrative data from Sweden, I study an internationally unique parental leave policy that rewarded parents with a financial bonus as a function of their division of paid parental leave. Results from a birthdate based regression discontinuity design show that the policy significantly...

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Health and labor market impacts of twin birth : evidence from a Swedish IVF policy

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Clarke, Damian; Mühlrad, Hanna; … - 2023

In vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed women to delay birth and pursue a career, but it massively increasesthe risk of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we leverage a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate for IVF...

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