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Earnings Inequality and the Gender Gap: An Accounting Exercise for Sweden 1975–1991

Björn Gustafsson, Mats Johansson

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Using the Household Income Survey, the earnings of full time, full year workers in Sweden are studied. Earnings inequality as well as the gender earnings gap were found to decrease up to the beginning of the 1980s, when both started to increase. The following questions are also addressed: How much has the changed earnigns gap contributed to changes in earnings inequality? How much should earnings inequality decrease in the case of men and women having the same mean income while keeping inequality within each gender category constant?

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Key concepts: Earnings, Inequality, Economics, Demographic economics, Labour economics, Gender inequality, Accounting, Mathematics