Sectoral Gender Differences: Exploring the Swedish gender wage gap in the 21st century
(2022) EOSK12 20221Department of Economic History
- Abstract
- Globally, men tend to earn more money than women. Even in relatively gender equal countries like Sweden wage differences remain. This thesis examines wage differences through the lens of sectoral gender segregation by looking at different wage trajectories, sector-specific gender wage gaps as well as the relationship between gender shares and the gender wage gap within a sector for both public and private sectors in Sweden during the 21st century. This thesis finds that there are no differences in trends for either wage trajectories or sector-specific gender wage gaps, the only differences found between sectors are in the values measured. This thesis also finds a relationship between gender shares and gender wage gaps within the sectors... (More)
- Globally, men tend to earn more money than women. Even in relatively gender equal countries like Sweden wage differences remain. This thesis examines wage differences through the lens of sectoral gender segregation by looking at different wage trajectories, sector-specific gender wage gaps as well as the relationship between gender shares and the gender wage gap within a sector for both public and private sectors in Sweden during the 21st century. This thesis finds that there are no differences in trends for either wage trajectories or sector-specific gender wage gaps, the only differences found between sectors are in the values measured. This thesis also finds a relationship between gender shares and gender wage gaps within the sectors but also finds that the relationship varies for female majority sectors and male majority sectors. This thesis concludes that the welfare state has large effects on sectoral differences in Sweden and that it can negatively affect the perceived human capital for women in the labour market. (Less)
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- author
- Folkesson, Emilia LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- EOSK12 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- The gender wage gap, sectoral gender segregation, the welfare state, public sector, private sector
- language
- English
- id
- 9096569
- date added to LUP
- 2022-09-06 09:19:10
- date last changed
- 2022-09-06 09:19:10
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abstract = {{Globally, men tend to earn more money than women. Even in relatively gender equal countries like Sweden wage differences remain. This thesis examines wage differences through the lens of sectoral gender segregation by looking at different wage trajectories, sector-specific gender wage gaps as well as the relationship between gender shares and the gender wage gap within a sector for both public and private sectors in Sweden during the 21st century. This thesis finds that there are no differences in trends for either wage trajectories or sector-specific gender wage gaps, the only differences found between sectors are in the values measured. This thesis also finds a relationship between gender shares and gender wage gaps within the sectors but also finds that the relationship varies for female majority sectors and male majority sectors. This thesis concludes that the welfare state has large effects on sectoral differences in Sweden and that it can negatively affect the perceived human capital for women in the labour market.}},
author = {{Folkesson, Emilia}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Sectoral Gender Differences: Exploring the Swedish gender wage gap in the 21st century}},
year = {{2022}},
}