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Parental Leave and the Glass Ceiling in Sweden☆This research was supported by a grant from IFAU, Uppsala. A presentation based on this material was given as the Presidential Address by the first author at the European Society of Population Economics in Braga, Portugal, in June 2014

In: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market

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  • James Albrecht
  • Peter Skogman Thoursie
  • Susan Vroman

Abstract

In this paper, we update and extend “Is There a Glass Ceiling in Sweden?” (Albrecht, Björklund, & Vroman, 2003) by documenting the extent to which the gender log wage gap across the distribution in Sweden has changed over the period 1998–2008. We then examine the Swedish glass ceiling in 2008 in more detail by documenting how it differs for white-collar versus blue-collar workers and for private- versus public-sector workers. We also examine when in the life cycle the glass ceiling effect arises and how this effect develops around the birth of the first child. Finally, we investigate the possible connection between the glass ceiling and the parental leave system in Sweden by linking wage data with data on parental leave from different Swedish registers.

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  • James Albrecht & Peter Skogman Thoursie & Susan Vroman, 2015. "Parental Leave and the Glass Ceiling in Sweden☆This research was supported by a grant from IFAU, Uppsala. A presentation based on this material was given as the Presidential Address by the first autho," Research in Labor Economics, in: Gender Convergence in the Labor Market, volume 41, pages 89-114, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:rleczz:s0147-912120140000041010
    DOI: 10.1108/S0147-912120140000041010
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    Keywords

    Gender gap; parental leave; quantile regression; J16; J31; J71;
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    JEL classification:

    • J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
    • J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
    • J71 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination - - - Hiring and Firing

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