The difficulty of getting a job varies due to individual attributes. This study was designed to examine the establishment in the labor market for academics. Focus was the inequalities in the Swedish labor market based on the variables gender and ethnic background as supposed negative outcome and social networks as a supposed positive outcome on the establishment. The intention was set to explain this based on previous research results and sociological theories about both gender and ethnic hierarchies and the theoretical, enabling power of social networks. 

This research was carried out using secondary data, a quantitative material collected in Sweden as part of an International Social Survey Program, about social networks in the year 2017. A linear multiple regression analysis was carried out in the statistical program SPSS to predict the covariation between multiple predictors and the outcome: the establishment in the labor market. With a deductive approach three alternative hypotheses were constructed with the aim of testing the data for their supposed validity. 

The results show us that men are better established in the labor market than women, respondents with two Swedish parents are better established than those with two foreign-born parents. This supports earlier research results regarding both the supposed male and, in this context, the Swedish hegemony. The social network's supposed positive effect however could not be confirmed. The three indicators selected to operationalize a theoretically beneficial social network showed scattered results and a lack of significance. The positive effect that social networks was believed to offer the academics in the labor market could not be led to evidence.