Edin, Per-Anders; Richardson, Katarina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of wage compression for the gender wage gap in Sweden during the … the changes in the returns to human capital and unobserved characteristics have contributed to reductions in the gender …'s relative wage gains, as compared to 1974. At this time, women gained in relative wages mainly because discrimination was …