Katarina Katz

 
Associate Professor of Economics

Research

Economics of gender

Labour markets

Integration

Segregation

Education and wages

Russian Labour Market

Teaching

Mathematics for economists

Microeconomics

Labour economics

Bio

 Academic degrees:        

  • : University  of Göteborg 1976. Fil. kand. in Mathematics, Economics and Philosophy
  • : University of Glasgow, 1981. Diploma in Soviet and E. European Studies,                   
  • University of Göteborg, 1994. PhD in Economics (Ekon. dr),

 

Languages:      Fluent Swedish and English (Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency,

                          Grade A). Working skills in Spanish, French and Russian.

 

2. Academic employment:

  • Post-graduate student and part-time lecturer, ,1986-1994
  • Research assistant in environmental economics, 1987-1988
  • Lecturer and research fellow, , 1994-1998
  • Assistant Professor 1998-2001
  • Researcher, , 2002-2004
  • Senior Lecturer. Dept. of Economics, Karlstad University, 2004-
  • Senior Lecturer Dept. of Social, Univ. of Göteborg, Feb. – May 2009.

Selected publications

A. Refereed journal articles

"Värdering av renare luft. Ett empiriskt exempel", , 42:4, 243-256, 1989, (with Thomas Sterner)

"The Value of Clean Air. Consumers´ Willingness to Pay for a Reduction in Gasoline Vapours at Filling Stations", , 2:1, 39-47, 1990 (with Thomas Sterner)

”Gender, Wages and Discrimination in the USSR”, , 21:4, 431-452, 1997

”Were there no returns to education in the USSR? Evidence from Soviet Period Household Data, 6,417-434, 1999

"Roubles and Yuan: A Comparison of Urban Wages in China and Russia at the end of the 80s", (with Björn Gustafsson, Li Shi and Ludmila Nivorozhkina). , 50:1, 1-18, 2001

“Transitionsekonomierna och kvinnoarbetet”, 2001:3-4,

”Wage Differentials and Gender Discrimination. Changes in Sweden 1981-98” (with Mats Johansson och Håkan Nyman). Acta Sociologica. 48:4, 341-364, 2005

“Residential segregation from generation to generation: Intergenerational  association  in socio-spatial context among visible minorities and the majority population in metropolitan Sweden”(with Björn Gustafsson, Björn and Torun Österberg). Forthcoming in .

Published online http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/psp.2028/full

“Why do some young adults not graduate from upper secondary school? On the importance of signals of labour market failure” (with Björn Gustafsson and Torun Österberg),

Published online http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00313831.2016.1188145

B. Monograph

Gender, work and wages in the Soviet Union. A Legacy of Discrimination., Palgrave, Basingstoke, 2001 (288s)

C. Doctoral thesis

Gender, Differentiation and Discrimination. A Study of Soviet Wages, Ekonomiska studier utgivna vid Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 54, Göteborg, 1994

    D. Chapters in books

"Och hon skall sopa trappan och hon skall skura golv... Klass, kön och politisk ekonomi", i antologin "Marxism och feminism", red. H. Ganetz, E. Gunnarsson & A. Göransson, Arbetarkultur, Stockholm, 1986, 115-146

"Perestrojkan och kvinnorna", i "Varför feminism i ett jämställt samhälle?" red. Carin Holmberg et. al, Kvinnovetenskapligt Forums Skriftsserie no 7, 1991, 75-97

"Zarabotnaia plata mushchin i zhenshchin v byvshem SSSR", i Khotkina, Z. (red)  Zhenshchiny i sotsial’naia politika (gendernyi aspekt), Demografiia i sotsiologiia, Moscow, 1992, 141-155

”How Underpaid Were Soviet Women? From a 1989 Survey of a Russian Industrial Town.” in  Jonung, C. & I. Persson, eds. (1998), Women’s Work and Wages, Research in Gender and Society, vol. 2. London and New York: Routledge, 230-250

Women and Men in Taganrog- A Study of the Emerging Russian Labour Market, i Jännebring, B. & R. Lindahl (red) (2002) Forskning om Europafrågor vid Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Göteborgs universitet, 2001, CERGU, Göteborg University, 1-23 (with Natalia Vinokurova).

Boendesegregation, bakgrund och barnfattigdom (with Björn Gustafsson and Torun Österberg) In Rauhut, D. (2013)  Om barnfattigdom: Ett problem med många ansikten / Lund: Studentlitteratur, 163-192 p.

E. Working Papers

“Labour in Transition: Women and Men in Taganrog, Russia” Working Paper, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet, 2001

“Wage differentials and gender discrimination – changes in Sweden 1981-1998”, Working Paper 2001:15, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms universitet,, 2001 (with Mats Johansson and Håkan Nyman)

Wage differences between women and men in Sweden – the impact of skill mismatch” (with Mats Johansson), IFAU Working Paper 2007:13, IFAU, Uppsala (peer reviewed.)

Household specialisation and gender equality in transition. Paid and unpaid work of women and men in Soviet and post-Soviet Taganrog, (with Lena Sand) Working Paper in Economics 307, University of Göteborg, 2008.

Wages of childhood immigrants in Sweden – education, returns to education and overeducation (with Torun Österberg), IFAU Working Paper 2013:8 (peer reviewed).

"Why Do Some Young Adults Not Graduate from Upper Secondary School? On the Importance of Signals of Labour Market Failure" with Björn Gustafsson and Torun Österberg, published as IZA Discussion Paper No. 9886, 2016.

G. Selected popular science and research reports

”Underutnyttjad utbildning och lönegapet mellan kvinnor och män”, IFAU Rapport 2007:11, IFAU, Uppsala, (with Mats Johansson)

Unga invandrare – utbildning, löner och utbildningsavkastning (with Torun Österberg), IFAU Rapport, 2013

Publications