Arizo Karimi

Nyckelord: SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Gender career gaps; career family trade-off; gender norms; househould decision-making; child penalties; flexibility; human capital; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Sammanfattning: Essay I: This paper examines the career/family trade-off at labor market entry using unique data on job preferences among Swedish law graduates.

Nyckelord: SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Technological Change; Gender Equality; Gender Wage Gap; Women s Labor Market; Student Evaluations; Economics; Nationalekonomi; Sammanfattning: Essay I:  I study how digital skill requirements affect the gender composition of new hires in female-dominated administrative occupations in Sweden from 2006 to 2016.

1 INTRODUCTION In international comparisons (see e.g., Roine and Waldenström, 2008; Morelli, Smeeding and Thompson, 2015), Sweden around 1980 comes out as one of the most equal societies among rich- and middle-income countries. However, since then, OECD analyses have shown that income inequality in Sweden has increased more rapidly than in most other countries (see Pareliussen et al. 2018).