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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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Swedish new car market. We employ a difference-in-differences matching methodology whereby we compare sales of carmaker Saab … products in the treatment and control groups, we propose and apply bounds to our difference-in-differences matching estimator …
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Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …
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ICT sector and a reallocation of engineers across firms. We also find evidence of increasing assortative matching, in the …
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matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous … impact on matching. We combine detailed Swedish matched worker-firm data from 1995 – 2005 with tariff data to test these … findings strongly support the theoretical predictions. -- Matching ; Globalization ; Firms ; Workers ; Multinational …
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We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex …
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Social trust is linked to many desirable economic and social outcomes, but the causality between trust and institutions is debated. Using new data from a representative sample of 2,668 Swedish expatriates (surveyed in the SOM Institute's Swedish Expatriate Survey 2014), we use variation in time...
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to de facto political change, increasing welfare expenditures as well as the likelihood of adopting more inclusive …
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Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
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We show theoretically that the poor can benefit from price changes induced by higher income inequality. As the number of poor in a society increases, or when the income difference between rich and poor increases, the market for products aimed towards the poor grows and such products become more...
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