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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - 2000

Using a large longitudinal data set, we study the effects of increased trade on earnings and mobility in the Swedish … labor market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Earnings respond significantly to changes in industry sales, whether … generated by domestic market forces or international trade: Swedish exports (imports) raise (lower) annual earnings, but changes …

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Job polarization and task-biased technological change: Sweden, 1975-2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - 2011

This paper investigates the connection between the Swedish wage profile of net job creation and Autor, Levy, and Murnane's (2003) proposed substitutability between routine tasks and technology. We first show that between 1975 and 2005, Sweden exhibited a pattern of job polarization with...

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Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985 - 2000

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Edin, Per-Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 2006

. It is well known that wage inequality has increased in Sweden since the mid-1980s. However, little evidence has so far … inequality account for the entire increase in wage dispersion. This pattern, which remains when we control for observable …

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Decomposing immigrant wage assimilation: The role of workplaces and occupations

Eliasson, Tove - 2013

This article uses a matched employer-employee panel data of the Swedish labor market to study immigrant wage assimilation, decomposing the wage catch-up into parts which can be attributed to relative wage growth within and between workplaces and occupations. This study shows that failing to...

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Wage Dispersion Between and Within Plants: Sweden 1985-2000

Nordström Skans, Oskar; Edin, Per-Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - 2006

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Job creation and job destruction in a regulated labor market: The case of Austria

Stiglbauer, Alfred M; Stahl, Florian; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2002

We study Austrian job reallocation in the period of 1978 to 1998, using a large administrative dataset where we correct for spurious entries and exits of firms. We find that on average 9 out of 100 randomly selected jobs were created within the last year, and that about 9 out of randomly...

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Thick-Market Effects and Churning in the Labor Market: Evidence from U.S. Cities

Bleakley, C. Hoyt; Lin, Jeffrey - 2006

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Ranking of Job Applicants, On-the-job Search, and Persistent Unemployment

Eriksson, Stefan; Gottfries, Nils - 2003

. More prevalent ranking in Europe compared to the US - because of more rigid wage structures etc. - could potentially help …

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