2022-05-18

Swedish Institute for Social Research

Being top of the class can affect your education and income later in life

In addition to the positive effects of having high grades in itself, being top of the class increases the probability that a student finishes a longer education or gets a higher income later in life. For students at the lower end of the grade distribution, being a bit more highly ranked compared to other students in the school increases the probability of finishing upper secondary school. These are the results of a new dissertation in economics from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.

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2022-05-13

Sexual harassment causes more gender segregation in jobs and larger wage inequality

Discrimination at work contributes to increased inequality in the labor market, shows a new study.

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2022-05-06

Swedish Institute for Social Research

PhD dissertation: Iman Dadgar defends his thesis

Iman Dadgar, doctoral student in economics at SOFI and the Department of Economics, defends his PhD thesis "Essays on the economics of education and health".

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2022-04-05

Swedish Institute for Social Research

Men face a greater risk of ethnic discrimination in the labour market

Men with foreign-sounding names applying for a job receive significantly fewer responses to their applications than female applicants with a foreign-sounding name. Both male and female recruiters appear to discriminate against them, although in different occupational groups.

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