. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation, offshoring, and tougher bargaining with labor unions. We show that …

This paper studies the effect of the firm-size distribution on the relationship between employment and output. We … construct a theoretical model, which predicts that changes in demand for industry output have larger effects on employment in … relationship between industry-level employment and output. Our empirical results align with the predictions of the theory and …

We present a study of immigrant self-employment in Sweden using the recent matched employer-employee data from 2014. We … find large variations in self-employment rates among immigrant groups as well as between immigrants with different points … for their time immigration to Sweden. High self-employment rates are found for male immigrants from the Middle East …

This paper studies how a special wage increase for assistant nurses in Sweden affected income and employment. Workers … similar employment and income levels before the agreement was reached. Assistant nurses see higher increases in labor income …

that more complex tasks are more costly to complete. Within the structure of our model, firms skew employment toward … occupations engaged in more complex tasks. Moreover, the distribution of employment is more skewed for more globalized firms …

The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …