I am a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University. I obtained my PhD in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2014.
My primary fields of research are applied microeconomics and behavioral economics, with a focus on the importance of gender and family background as determinants of labor market inequalities.
For more information about my research, please see my personal webpage www.annasandberg.nu.
This research program offers new and policy-relevant knowledge about labor market inclusion. The focus is on four demographic groups with particularly weak positions on the Swedish labor market: women, employees close to retirement age, people with an immigrant background, and transgender individuals.
Challenges and opportunities in female-dominated occupations.
This program aims to enhance our understanding of why women still fall behind men in terms of wages, careers, health and social recognition. What extent inequalities can be attributed to the fact that women tend to work in female dominated occupations and in “people-oriented jobs”?
This research project builds on a new data set on hiring in academia – a sector known for its dearth of women at top positions. The data set is unique in its scope and detail, covering all recruitment and promotion processes at the level of assistant, associate, and full professor at Sweden’s 10 largest universities from 2018 to 2020.
We propose a set of empirical studies that further our understanding of gender differences in labor market outcomes. Drawing on our previous work, we study how economic gender gaps are affected by referral-based hiring, the gender composition of groups, and gender stereotypes.
