This research program offers new and policy-relevant knowledge about labor market inclusion. The focus is on four demographic groups with particularly weak positions on the Swedish labor market: women, employees close to retirement age, people with an immigrant background, and transgender individuals.

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.

The purpose of this project is to investigate the role of performance evaluations in the labor market.

The development of wages during recent decades has in many countries encompassed increasing educational wage premia, the wage difference between college and non-college educated workers. This project focuses on the role of trade unions, and the wage bargaining system, for the development of the wage premium.

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.