Research

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 Stabilizing brokerage
2011 Dynamics of social, political, and economic institutions
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’.

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)

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.