April 4th Monday 10.15 -12 hrs. Labour Markets I room 403 ; April 6th Wednesday 10.15 -12 hrs Labour Markets II room 219

The lectures will give an introduction to the use of labour market statistics, their availability, definitions and sources. They will discuss different aspects of gender differjentiation in the labour markets of OECD countries, gender differences in labour force participation, employment and wages and gender segregation in the labour market. I will discuss some social, institutional factors that are important for differences between countries in these respects. Comparisons will be made between Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries and other EU countries and between Europe and the US.

Women and labour markets K Katz april 22.pptx

1.Employment gap and participation

Eurofound 2016, “The gender employment gap: Challenges and solutions”, Publications Office of the European Union, Chapters 1 and 2,pp. 5-29

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/ef_publication/field_ef_document/ef1638en_1.pdf (Links to an external site.)

2. Occupational segregation

B.Burchell, V. Hardy, J. Rubery and M. Smith 2015, “A New Method to Understand Occupational Gender Segregation in European Labour Markets”, Brussels: European Commission; 2015. Pages 27-44 and 93-105 (Chapters 1 + 2.1, 2.2 , 2.9 and 2.10)

http://ec.europa.eu/justice/gender-equality/files/documents/150119_segregation_report_web_en.pdf (Links to an external site.)

3. Gender pay gaps

Blau, F., Ferber, M. and A. Winkler 2010, The Economics of Women, Men and Work; 6^th edition, Pearson, pp 364-375

OECD Employment Outlook 2002, chapter 2.4 (pp 96-114)

Blau, Ferber, Winkler-1.pdf Download Blau, Ferber, Winkler-1.pdf

Blau, F. and L. Kahn 2000, “Gender differences in pay”, NBER Working Paper 7732; pp 6-8

http://www.nber.org/papers/w7732 (Links to an external site.)

4. Policies and wage gaps – glass ceilings and sticky floors

Booth, A. (2007): “The glass ceiling in Europe: Why are women doing badly in the labour market?, Swedish Economic Policy Review 14, pp. 121-144. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alison_Booth2/publication/4983649_The_Glass_Ceiling_in_Europe_Why_Are_Women_Doing_Badly_in_the_Labour_Market/links/09e4151083b61a0224000000.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Recommended Readings:

Albrecht J., Skogman Thoursie, P. and Vroman S. 2015, "Parental Leave and the GlassCeiling in Sweden, IFAU Working Paper 2015:4

Angelov Nikolay, Per Johansson, and Erica Lindahl, 2016, "Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay," Journal of Labor Economics 34, no. 3 (July 2016): pp.545-579.

Blau, F., Ferber, M. and A. Winkler 2010, The Economics of Women, Men and Work; 6^th edition, Pearson, pp 193.225

Eurofound 2016, “The gender employment gap: Challenges and solutions, Publications Office of the European Union”, Chapter 6, pp. 69-83

http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/sites/default/files/ef_publication/field_ef_document/ef1638en_1.pdf (Links to an external site.)

Grönlund, A. and C. Magnusson 2016, “Family-friendly policies and women's wages - is there a trade-off? Skill investments, occupational segregation and the gender pay gap in Germany, Sweden and the UK”, European Societies, 18:1, pp. 91-113

http://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.ub.gu.se/doi/pdf/10.1080/14616696.2015.1124904?needAccess=trueLinks to an external site.

Katz, K. 2001, "Gender, Discrimination and Western Economic Theory" in Gender, work and wages in the Soviet Union: A legacy of discrimination. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 11-48. Se GUL

Korpi, Walter, Tommy Ferrarini, and Stefan Englund 2013, "Women's opportunities under different family policy constellations: Gender, class, and inequality tradeoffs in western countries re-examined." Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 20.1 (2013): 1-40.

Rubery, J. 2015, “Change at work: feminisation, flexibilisation, fragmentation and financialisation” Employee Relations, 37(6), 633-644.

Dominguez Edme, Lisa Sutton, "Feminist Approaches to forms of Labour" in the Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research, forthcoming in 2020. A copy is posted in the e-Resources.