The functioning of the labour market

In this theoretical subproject, we study the optimal labour supply within the family when both parents compete for promotion in their respective workplaces and the implications for specialisatio...

Previous research has shown that personal contacts play an important role in the filling of new jobs. Less is known about the role of personal networks in foreign-born individuals’ chances...

Previous research indicates that the relative income between spouses matters for the division of labour within the household. This project aims at contributing to this literature by taking advan...

This project examines whether the relationship between an employee’s match quality – how well the employee’s skills correspond to the job’s qualification requirements &nd...

In the present research project, we investigate the extent to which competition for labour within different industries affects the variation in wage income among those working within these indus...

I detta projekt avser vi studera hur yrkes-specifika lönepremier har förändrats i Sverige under perioden 1996–2013.

Många rika länder har under senare dece...

The Swedish banking crisis in the early 1990s, among the five most severe financial crises historically, provides an insightful yet previously unexplored episode to improve our understanding of ...

A large literature has studied social mobility between generations. Many of these studies estimate correlations between siblings, which provide a measure of how important family background and s...

Despite the convergence in labour force participation, educational level, and the choice of professions observed in the last few decades, significant gender wage gaps still persist in all indust...

När en anställd blir 67 år har arbetsgivaren rätt att säga upp personen på godtyckliga grunder. Vi studerar effekter av en reform som i praktiken höjde avg&a...