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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 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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Job Polarization and Task-Biased Technological Change: Sweden, 1975–2005

Adermon, Adrian; Gustavsson, Magnus - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

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The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression

Edin, Per-Anders; Forslund, Anders; Holmlund, Bertil - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

This paper is concerned with the labor market experience of Swedish youths during the 1980s and the 1990s. The first objective is to portray early economic attainment among young Swedes. The second objective of the paper is to examine the impact of labor market programs on youth employment. We...

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Is Early Retirement Encouraged by the Employer? Labor-Demand Effects of Age-Related Collective Fees

Hallberg, Daniel - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

In Sweden, employers pay non-wage costs for their workforce in the form of legislated employment tax and collective fees. For parts of the workforce, the collective fees are progressive with respect to the employee’s age and wage. The objective of this paper is to examine how non-wage costs...

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The Determinants of Hiring in Local Labor Markets: The Role of Demand and Supply Factors

Eriksson, Stefan; Stadin, Karolina - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

This paper studies the determinants of hiring. We use the search-matching model with imperfect competition in the product market from Carlsson, Eriksson and Gottfries (2011) to derive an equation for total hiring in a local labor market, and estimate it on Swedish panel data. When product...

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Wage adjustment and productivity shocks

Carlsson, Mikael; Messin, Julián; Nordström Skans, Oskar - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

We study how workers’ wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms’labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

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Rational Expectations and the Puzzling No-Effect of the Minimum Wage

Pinoli, Sara - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2010

This paper argues that expectations are an important element that need to be included into the analysis of the effects of the minimum wage on employment. We show in a standard matching model that the observed employment e¤ect is higher the lower is the likelihood associated with the minimum...

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Economic Integration, Imperfect Competition, and International Policy Coordination

Holmlund, Bertil; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1999

The paper examines policy externalities between imperfectly competitive open economies where unemployment prevails in general equilibrium. We develop a two-country and two-sector model with monopolistic competition in the goods market and wage bargaining in the labor market. Policy externalities...

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Insider Bargaining Power, Starting Wages, and Involuntary Unemployment

Gottfries, Nils; Sjöström, Tomas - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1998

Recent analyses of wage bargaining has emphasized the distinction between insiders and outsiders, yet one typically assumes that insiders and recently hired outsiders are paid the same wage. We consider a model where the starting wage for outsiders may be lower than the insider wage, but...

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Trade, Earnings, and Mobility - Swedish Evidence

Edin, Per-Anders; Fredriksson, Peter; Lundborg, Per - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 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:...

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