The Gender Wage Gap : - among Swedish municipalities

• Main Authors: Rickardsson, Jonna, Göthberg, Josefine
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Economics, Finance and Statistics 2015
• Subjects: Gender wage gap; Wage gap; Regional economics; Gender inequality; Gender segregation; Swedish labor market; Lönegap; genus; inkomstskillnader mellan kvinnor och män; geografisk ekonomi; jämställdhet; Svenska kommuner; Haparanda
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-26897

Though successively decreasing over time, gender wage gaps are still large in all western countries. When gender wage gaps exist, there is an unequal distribution of economic power between men and women. This paper examines variables that significantly relate to the differences in the size of the ge...