Ryszard Szulkin

Mechanisms of Inequality. Unequal Access to Organizational Power and the Gender Wage Gap (2003)

Hultin, Mia, Szulkin, Ryszard

In this paper, we argue that women's limited access to managerial and supervisory positions in work organizations is a part of the explanation of gender wage inequality. Multi‐level analyses...

Ethnic Segregation and Educational Outcomes in Swedish Comprehensive Schools

Szulkin, Ryszard, Jonsson, Jan O.

We ask whether ethnic density in Swedish comprehensive schools affect teacher-assigned school grades in ninth grade (age 16). The data, based on two entire cohorts who graduated in 1998 and 1999...

Ethnic Environment during Childhood and the Educational Attainment of Immigrant Children in Sweden

Bygren, Magnus, Szulkin, Ryszard

We ask whether growing up with persons of the same national background (which we refer to as coethnics), in the immediate neighbourhood, influences future educational careers of children of...

Permanent Disadvantage or Gradual Integration: Explaining the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in Sweden

Le Grand, Carl, Szulkin, Ryszard

Theoretical explanations suggest that wage differentials between immigrant and native workers are generated either by unequal acquisition of human capital between the groups or by various forms of...

Families, neighborhoods, and the future: The transition to adulthood of children of native and immigrant origin in Sweden

Szulkin, Ryszard, Hällsten, Martin

In this paper, we examine mechanisms that generate gaps in educational attainment and labor market outcomes between children of immigrants and children of native Swedes. Theoretical explanations of...