Karin Halldén is associate professor (docent) at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. Her research interests are gender differences in labour market careers and working life and its intersection with family. In her recent work she connects differences between men and women’s labour market rewards to family situation and policies targeted to labour market gender equality. She has also studied gender segregetion in education and in the labour market. Halldén is part of the advisory board of Social Politics.
This research program examines cohesion and exclusion in working life in the wake of long-term structural change. As labor markets are transformed by rising skill requirements and service sector expansion, the conditions and opportunities of both traditionally marginal groups and formerly established worker categories may change considerably.
We address three questions: (1) Does the RUT reform contribute to increase employment among immigrants? (2) Does the RUT industry provide a stepping stone into more advanced and better paid jobs or a trap for low skilled in low paid professions? (3) Does RUT stimulate immigrants to start their own firms or attain managerial positions?
By doing analyzes focusing on time from education to job, length of employment spells, and career patterns, we shed light on changes for birth cohorts born from the 1940s and onwards. Our analyses are based on register data and the occupational biographies in the Level of Living Surveys.
Careers in the Swedish labor market from the 1960's and onward: From stability to instability?
A common picture of today's labor market is that careers have become more complex in contrast to the labor market of the past characterized by permanent jobs. The pace of change is often assumed to be rapid. But is this correct?
In this project, we investigate how workplace segregation by gender in Sweden has developed during the last twenty years. We also study the interplay between occupational segregation by gender and workplace segregation by gender, and to what extent the workplace segregation by gender accounts for the gender gap in labor incomes.
The main aim of NORDICORE is to create knowledge that will further advance gender balance and diversity in research and innovation. The research design uses mixed methods and data are acquired from a wide range of sources. Thus, it allows to pinpoint specific mechanisms behind gender inequalities.
This project explores precarious work in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2020s, focusing on atypical contracts, job instability, and unemployment. It examines long-term trends vs. short-term fluctuations, and how they affect income, health, and differ by education, gender, immigrant status, and urbanity.
