The functioning of the labour market

Firms often invest in general employee training despite the risk that workers may seek jobs elsewhere. In this project, we test whether positive reciprocity can partly explain this pattern. Positive r...

The gender wage gap has narrowed over the last few decades. However, a significant gap remains in most Western countries, and it tends to increase after women have had their first child. This project ...

A growing literature suggests that outside job offers are an important component of on-the-job wage growth. A standard hypothesis is that the labour market is characterised by a sequence of offers fro...

It is a well-established fact that children from high-income families tend to have high incomes themselves. However, the knowledge about what explains this intergenerational income correlation is more...

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 advantage o...

This project studies the long-term individual effects of the major economic crisis in the early 1990s in Sweden. We particularly focus on differences in the magnitude of the crisis between different l...

Although technological advances improve productivity and standards of living, not all workers gain equally. New technologies are likely to have distributional consequences by creating winners and lose...

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 – a...

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 modern...

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 industrialis...