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19 February, 2005

The Employers in the Swedish Model: the Importance of Labour Market Competition and Organisation

The way the labour market functions is a crucial factor in any analysis of the Swedish model, but has all too often been described in theoretical terms. This paper examines the happenings behind the r

Type of publication: Working papers | Torbjörn Lundqvist
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19 October, 2017

Do Employers Prefer Fathers? Evidence from a Field Experiment Testing the Gender by Parenthood Interaction Effect on Callbacks to Job Applications

European Sociological Review, 2017, Vol. 33, No. 3, 337–348 In research on fatherhood premiums and motherhood penalties in career-related outcomes, employers’ discriminatory behaviours are often argued

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30 May, 2018

Diversity preferences among employees and ethnoracial workplace segregation

Social Science Research. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.03.009 Abstract Ethno-racial workplace segregation increases already existing ethno-racial inequality. While previous research has identified d

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , , Fredrik Jansson
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27 February, 2025

When employees matter: How employee resource groups and workforce liberalism jointly spur firms to support Pro-LGBTQ legislation

Journal of Business Research. Vol. 186 Abstract Employees are increasingly vocal about and attentive toward their organizations’ social policies and practices. Scholars have identified two main channels

Type of publication: Journal articles | Selling, Niels , & Frank G.A. de Bakker
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07 July, 2017

“Most MPs are Not All that Sharp.” Political Employees and Representative Democracy

International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 40 (7), s 548-558 (2017) DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1157693 Abstract The article analyses the orientations of political employees in

Type of publication: Journal articles | Svallfors, Stefan
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06 April, 2016

"Most MPs are not all that sharp." Political employees and representative democracy

Working Paper 2016 no. 2(Published in International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 40 (7), pp 548-558  (2017) DOI:  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01900692.2016.1157693) This paper analyses the orient

Type of publication: Working papers | Svallfors, Stefan
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14 December, 2008

The Importance of Age for the Reallocation of Labor: Evidence from Swedish Linked Employer-Employee Data 1986-2002

Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy from 1986 to 2002, this paper examines how job- and worker flows have been distributed across age groups. It finds that the flows vary b

Type of publication: Working papers | Marie Gartell, Ann-Christin Jans and Helena Persson
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01 March, 2008

The Importance of Education for the Reallocation of Labor. Evidence from Swedish Linked Employer-Employee data 1986-2002

The paper examines how job- and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy from 1986 to

Type of publication: Working papers | Marie Gartell, Ann-Christin Jans and Helena Persson
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04 March, 2016

The Reverse Gender Gap in Ethnic Discrimination: Employer Stereotypes of Men and Women with Arabic Names

International Migration Review, s. 1-28. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12170 Abstract We examine differences in the intensity of employer stereotypes of men and women with Arabic names in Sweden by testing how much

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , , Mahmood Arai & Lena Nekby
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09 November, 2021

Does employer discrimination contribute to the subordinate labor market inclusion of individuals of a foreign background?

Social Science Research, vol. 98 Abstract Advanced labor markets are typically stratified by origin with a majority ethnic group occupying more desirable (high-skilled) positions and subordinated ethnic choices reinforce these patterns. This would be the case if employers were more reluctant to hire subordinate minority job applicants for high-skilled positions than for low-skilled occupations. We use experimental correspondence audit data derived from 6407 job applications sent to job openings in the Swedish labor market, where the ‘foreignness’ of the job applicants has been randomly assigned to otherwise equally merited job applications. We find that negative discrimination of job applicants with ‘foreign’ names is very similar in the high-skilled and low-skilled segments of the labor market. There is no significant relative ethnic difference in chances of callbacks by skill level. Because baseline callback rates are higher in high-skilled occupations, discrimination however translates into a significantly larger percentage unit callback difference between ‘natives’ and ‘foreigners’ in these occupations, in particular between male job applicants. That is, the 

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , & Michael Gähler
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