Women earn less than men with the same job
More than a third of the wage disparities between Norwegian men and women are due to unequal pay for equal work: “The pay gap at the job level is larger than previously assumed,” says researcher.
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In this working paper, Tina Baier, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors investigate whether intergenerational transmission reflects within-family processes or social inheritance. Their findings suggest that the effects of the environmental processes characterized as “nurture” are explained less by parents’ specific behaviors and more by dynastic stratification in environments relevant to success in school.
In this article, published in "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", Martin Isungset, Torkild Lyngstad and co-authors approach the question of the influence of genetics and social environment on educational outcomes - in a Scandinavian welfare state.