Search for dissertations about: "wage inequality"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 56 swedish dissertations containing the words wage inequality.
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1. The Mystery of Inequality : Essays on Culture, Development, and Distributions
Abstract : Essay I (with Daniel Waldenström): We estimate trends in global earnings dispersion across occupational groups by constructing a new database that covers 68 developed and developing countries between 1970 and 2018. Our main finding is that global earnings inequality has fallen, primarily during the 2000s and 2010s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped by 15 points and the earnings share of the world’s poorest half doubled. READ MORE
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2. Globalization, Gender Inequality, and Firm Innovation
Abstract : This thesis comprises four self-contained papers that rely on applied micro-econometric methods to understand which factors are important in shaping the gender wage gap in globalized firms and how firms innovate when exposed to trade-induced shocks. In the first paper, we study how the within-firm gender wage gap in Sweden is affected by the degree of gender inequality in the home country of foreign investors. READ MORE
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3. Roads from Unemployment : Institutional Complementarities in Product and Labor Markets
Abstract : Bringing down unemployment is a top priority for governments across the industrialized world, regardless of ideological bent. What is at issue in the political debate is not if unemployment should be combatted, but by what means. READ MORE
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4. Essays on the dynamics of wage inequality
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5. Mind the Gap : Essays on Explanations of Gender Wage Inequality
Abstract : The gender wage gap is accounted for to a substantial degree by the sex composition of occupations. The present thesis examines the mechanisms that produce this pattern. In particular, the theory of devaluation, currently the most widely accepted sociological explanation, is tested. READ MORE