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.
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.
