Hultén, Gunilla, Tigervall, Carina, Jonsson, Tola, Holgersson, Helena, Sjöström, Helena, Carson, Marcus, ...
Mechanisms of Inequality. Unequal Access to Organizational Power and the Gender Wage Gap (2003)
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...
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...
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...