TY  - CHAP
AB  - 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.
VL  - 41
SN  - 978-1-78441-456-6, 978-1-78441-455-9/0147-9121
DO  - 10.1108/S0147-912120140000041010
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0147-912120140000041010
AU  - Albrecht James
AU  - Thoursie Peter Skogman
AU  - Vroman Susan
PY  - 2015
Y1  - 2015/01/01
TI  - 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.
T2  - Gender Convergence in the Labor Market
T3  - Research in Labor Economics
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 89
EP  - 114
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -