Research

Working Papers

• Text Mining for Processing Interview Data in Computational Social Science, 2019
• Working for Female Managers/Gender composition in occupation hierarchies and the persistence of labor market segregation, 2014 
• The Dispossessed, 2013
• Status, Relative Pay, and Wage Growth: Evidence from M&As, 2014
• Occupational Labor Markets 2003
• Wage Mobility in Sweden 2002
• Information-efficient or decision-oriented teams-A team composition paradox, 1999 
• Are monitoring and high-intensity pay complements or substitute? 1998
• Impact of Business Groups/Alliances on Executive Compensation and Firm Performance Sweden 1985 to 1997, 1999
• Are Change of Beliefs and High Performance Pay Complements or Substitutes? (Under revision).
• How to Increase or Decrease Inequality: A Mechanism Based on Multiple Decisionmakers and Their Independence of Mind (Under revision)

Selected Published Articles

• 2022 When Should Control Be Shared?
• 2019 En fritänkare finner sin forskar miljö. IFN Jubileum skrift 2019
• 2014 The significance of firm and occupation specific human capital for hiring and promotions
• 2012 The Brokerage
• 2011 Demons in the System
• 2010 Cohort Effects in Promotion and Wages
• 2007 Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
• 2006 The Gender Productivity Gap.
• 2006 The Glass Ceiling in the United States and Sweden: Lessons from the Family Friendly Corner of the World, 1970 to 1990
• 2003  Corporate Governance and Structural Change. European Challenges
• 2003  Pay, Risk, And Productivity. The Case Of Findland,1980-1996
• 2000  Equal Pay for Equal Work? Evidence from Sweden, Norway and the U.S.
• 1999  More Glory and Less Injustice: The Glass-Ceiling in Sweden 1970-1990.
• 1998  Finns det ett glastak för kvinnor? En studie av svenska arbetsplatser i privat näringsliv 1970-1990.
• 1997  Lika lön för lika arbete en studie av svenska förhållanden i internationell belysning.
• 1997  Är lönediskriminering en myt? En internationell jämförelse av lönediskriminering av kvinnor.
• 1997  Är kvinnor utsatta för lönediskriminering? 1995  Kompensationskontrakt för ledningsgrupper i svenska börsnoterade företag.
• 1994  Human capital, Social Capital and Compensation. The impact of social networks on managers’ income.
• 1993  Kontrollmöjligheter i fall av asymmetrisk information. Två fallsudier; riksbanken och husläkarsystemet.
• 1993 The Impact of Financial and Social Capital On Firm Performance.
• 1992  Doctoral Thesis ‘The Impact of Ownership Structure and Executive Team Composition on Firm Performance The resolution of a leadership paradox’.

Books

• Ägarmakt och omvandling  Den svenska modellen utmanad, Ed Hans Tson Söderstrom, Ekonomirådsrapport 2003 Stockholm:SNS English summary, The Swedish Corporate Governance System, and the European Challenge
• Staten och bolagskapitalet om aktiv styrning av statliga bolag, ‘State as a corporate owner’ with Susanne Lindh, ESO Ds 1998:64
• Kompensations system i svenska börsnoterade företag, 1994, ‘Compensation contracts in Swedish publicly traded firms’ Almqvist och Wicksell, ISBN 91-7204-470-5.5

Current Projects

Currently working on the following research projects:

• Brokers, refugees and labor market matching.  
• Voices on Intimacy. 
• Are Intrinsic and Extrinsic Rewards Complements or Substitutes?
• A Labor Market Analysis of Suicide Missions.
• The Boundary of Internal Labor Markets: Do we have the empirical facts right?
• Where Do Beliefs Come From?
• Do Men Like To Work For Women Managers?
• The Dynamics and Evolution of Institutions.
• Managing Global Organizations.