Episode 46: Johanna Rickne on Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labour Market

Johanna Rickne is a Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, and part-time Professor of Economics at Nottingham University.

The paper discussed in this episode is “Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market” by Olle Folke and Johanna Rickne, and which was published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2022.

Other papers discussed during this episode include:

Goldin, Claudia. “A Grand Gender Convergence: Its Last Chapter”, American Economic Review, 104 (2014a), 1091–1119.

Mas, Alexandre, and Amanda Pallais, “Valuing Alternative Work Arrangements,” American Economic Review, 107 (2017), 3722—59.

Goldin, C., & Katz, L. F. (2016). A most egalitarian profession: pharmacy and the evolution of a family-friendly occupation. Journal of Labor Economics, 34(3), 705-746.