Nettsider med emneord «Social Policy»

This project studies whether and how particular political institutional characteristics – for example concerning the ruling party, election systems, and the protection of civil liberties – affect economic policies and outcomes under different conditions. More specifically, the project analyzes how different institutions, both in democracies and dictatorships, impact on economic growth and redistributive policies, thereby addressing issues of immense importance for the welfare of citizens across the world.

In this article, published in the acclaimed journal Nature Human Behaviour, Are Skeie Hermansen and co-authors have studied the within-job gender pay inequality. Using linked employer-employee data from 15 countries, their findings show that the process of sorting people into different jobs account for substantially less of the gender pay differences than previously believed and that the within-job pay differences remain consequential.