Karin Hederos

Firms and the Gender Wage Gap: A Comparison of Eleven Countries: Marco Palladino

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Despite school closures intervening, female uptake of A Level physics increased by 21% in treated schools. The effect is higher in schools that persisted with the program through lockdown.

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Research Reveals That Employers Play a Key Role in Explaining the Gender Wage Gap

Researchers find that gender differences in firm-specific wage premiums account for 10% to 30% of the gender wage gap in private-sector hourly wages across 10 European economies and Washington State, US.

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The stalled progress of gender equality in the US labor market Life cycle profiles of wages help shed light on the economic progress of women relative to men.

Generational differences in how wage disparities develop over workers' careers help account for the stalled progress toward gender pay equality in the US, say researchers at @ucl.ac.uk, the University of Chicago, and the University of Kentucky. #econsky www.aeaweb.org/research/cha...

New article out in @sociusjournal.bsky.social.

It shows how closely linked motherhood penalties 🤰📉 and gender inequalities 👨‍💼💰👩‍💼 are by studying many local labour markets.

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Featured in the latest Digest: Universal Occupational Licensing Recognition and Healthcare Access

https://www.nber.org/digest/202510/universal-occupational-licensing-recognition-and-healthcare-access?page=1&perPage=50

Stockholm friends - Mon, Sept 22 at Stockholm University: come discuss new research on gender gaps in academia! Email me or @johannarickne.bsky.social to sign up. Download the program here: bit.ly/45XOkWZ.
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📚 📣 Are you in the Stockholm area on September 22nd? Come discuss new research about gender gaps in academia at Stockholm University! Email me to sign up. Program below!

Økonomen Joan Robinson er en af verdens vigtigste økonomer. Hun skrev i 1933: The Economics of Imperfect Competition. Hun introducerede monopsonimagt i den økonomiske litteratur: Der er én arbejdsgiver, som efterspørger en type arbejdskraft. Det giver arbejdsgiveren magt til at presse lønnen ned.

Bilingual caseworkers and on-the-job training: A pathway to integration?

New Working paper Lillit Ottosson and Ulrika Vikman.

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Ghazala Azmat (1979 - 2025) It is with great sadness that Sciences Po's Department of Economics announces the death of Professor Ghazala Azmat, who passed away this weekend. Ghazala was Professor of Economics at the Department s...

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🚨 REPLICATION REPORT UPDATE: One year ago, a tweet by John Holbein alerted me, @ollefolke.bsky.social, and @jopieboy.bsky.social to a paper with a shocking result about Sweden’s law criminalizing the purchase of sex.🧵

We’re excited to introduce the Swedish Municipal Council Database! This open-access resource contains our hand-coded data for all local politicians in Sweden's democratic local elections between 1919 and 2018. A 🧵

Co-authors 🤩 @abrarbawati.bsky.social, @josefinemagnusson.bsky.social Moa Frödin

Den nya fortsättningskursen Offentlig styrning (Public Governance) presenteras av lärarna på NEK-institutionen vid @stockholm-uni.bsky.social. En av flera intressanta kurser för dig som har en termin NEK och är sugen på mer! www.su.se/english/sear...

1–3 Research Assistants for the Uppsala Immigration Lab and Urban Lab The Department of Economics is one of the largest departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences with approximately 100 employees from a dozen countries. Each year about 1,000 students participate

Come work on migration, integration, and urban issues! Great opportunity in active and friendly research environment.
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Which occupations carry the highest risk of sexual harassment—and who is doing the harassing?

Our new study finds two distinct patterns depending on whether harassment comes from inside or outside the workplace.

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Scandinavian employees work more from home. Likely causes are high trust and advanced technology. Increases in remote work affect the spatial distribution of local service jobs, from Adam Gill, Lena E. Hensvik, and Oskar Nordström Skans https://www.nber.org/papers/w33581

New @ifau.bsky.social WP out with Martin Nybom and Gunnar Brandén: www.ifau.se/Forskning/Pu...

The social mobility literature has organized around three types of measures: intergenerational regressions, sibling correlations, and equality of opportunity (EOp) indices. 1/4

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Note that knowing Swedish is a requirement this time.

1/ As US colleges bring back the SAT, an old dilemma reemerges: do test scores reduce bias, or does focusing on “fit” quietly uphold class barriers? My research on class discrimination at elite firms sheds light. 🧵

Great work showing how people’s career choices mirror their parents' in knowledge, values, skills, and more – and discussing the implications for inequality.

I put together an overview of recent developments in the literature on gender-based violence for @AEAjournals

There's enough material for 2x 1.5hr lectures. I've covered the material in labor & gender economics classes

I hope they can be helpful!

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Myrdalpriset 2024 tilldelas Maria Cheung, Johan Egebark, Anders Forslund, Lisa Laun, Magnus Rödin och Johan Vikström. Artikeln ”Effekter av förstärkta förmedlingsinsatser – lärdomar från ett randomiserat experiment” publicerades i Ekonomisk Debatt nr 2, 2024.

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Explaining why the Nordic countries have such low income inequality and discussing the lessons, if any, for other countries, from Magne Mogstad, Kjell G. Salvanes, and Gaute Torsvik https://www.nber.org/papers/w33444

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New publication on gendered referral patterns 👇

With @a-sandberg.bsky.social