Works of Department of Social Work
Выпуск N1 за 1996 год
Опубликовано на портале: 26-10-2004
Björn Gustafsson, Mats Johansson
Works of Department of Social Work.
1996.
Vol. 3.
No. 1.
The development of earnings inequality and the earnings gender gap is analysed among
full-time, full-year workers in Sweden using an additively decomposable inequality
index. Earnings inequality is found to first decrease then increase and the earnings
gender gap is found to move similarly. The results show that the changed earnings
gap has some importance for the changed inequality. However, most of the changes
were due to changes in inequality within the categories male and female. Between
one tenth and one fifth of the inequality in particular segments of the labour market
would be eliminated if its gender gap were to be totally eliminated.
If the gender gap were to be eliminated in specific segments of the labour market,
to what extent would earning inequality decrease?

