This study aims to explain how the Covid-19 pandemic impacted men’s and women’s incomes differently at a local municipality level in Sweden. Using panel data for Sweden’s municipalities from 2011-2021, a difference-in-difference design is used to examine how the pandemic has affected the average yearly income for the population aged 20-64 and how the effects are distributed across different age groups. Further, all data is collected from Statistics Sweden. The excess mortality rate is used to measure the pandemic's intensity. The main finding of this study suggests that women experienced a more significant decrease in incomes than men, with declines in incomes of 0.62% for women and 0.49% for men, which is statistically significant. Further, the difference-in-difference-coefficient for income differences is positive and statistically significant, indicating an increase in the income gap between men and women by 1.3% due to the pandemic. The effect of the pandemic on incomes varied across different age groups, and the results indicated a notable increase in income difference of 28.9% within the age group of 50-64 years.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-122996 |
| Date | January 2023 |
| Creators | Svensson, Ellen |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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