The project Let’s work together: Gender composition of teams (Vinnum saman: Kynjasamsetning teyma) is led by Katrín Ólafsdóttir.

The project is funded by the Gender Equality Fund (Jafnréttissjóður) and consists of three experiments, two of which have already taken place.

The project The unexpected effects of joint taxation of married couples received a grant from the Nordic tax research council.

It is a joint project between Katrín Ólafsdóttir and Axel Hall and aims to shed light on the adverse effects certain characteristics of the Icelandic tax system can have on female labor force participation.

In the project Gender wage gaps and household decisions: Evidence from a promotion reform, Anna Thoresson along with Erik Grönqvist, Lena Hensvik and Yoko Okuyama (Uppsala University) ask how closing the couple wage gap affects the division of childcare responsibility within households. To do so they leverage a promotion reform targeted at teachers. The project is expected to conclude in 2024.

Generous family policies are often seen as a prerequisite for high female labor force participation after giving birth. For newly arrived immigrant mothers, who are not yet established on the labor market, the possibility of longer paid leave may instead delay labor market entry. In this project, Anna Thoresson with Caroline Hall (IFAU), Erica Lindahl (IFAU), and Malin Tallås Ahlzén (SOFI) study how a restriction of parental benefits for foreign born children in Sweden affects the short- and long-term integration of immigrant parents and children in terms of their employment and schooling outcomes. The project is funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte) and the Swedish Social Insurance Agency.

In the project Domestic outsourcing, Anna Thoresson with Cristina Bratu (VATT), Stefano Lombardi (VATT), Oskar Nordström Skans (Uppsala University), and Olof Åslund (Uppsala University) study to what extent the reallocation of workers across firms via domestic outsourcing has contributed to the immigrant-native earnings gap in Sweden over the last decades. The immigrant-native gap has increased over time, but this gap is substantially smaller within than between firms. This suggests that the increase in the earnings gap is driven by differences between rather than within firms. We investigate whether an increase in firm specialization via outsourcing could have contributed to this increase. The project is partly funded by the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte).