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Competition, takeovers and gender discrimination
Heyman, Fredrik (contributor); Svaleryd, Helena (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003641133
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How wage compression affects job turnover
Heyman, Fredrik (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003618510
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Firms and skills : the evolution of worker sorting
Håkanson, Christina; Lindqvist, Erik; Vlachos, Jonas - 2015
We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms between 1986 and 2008. The weight of the evidence suggests that the increase in sorting is due to stronger complementarities between worker skills and technology. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532546
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Private equity, layoffs, and job polarization
Olsson, Martin; Tåg, Joacim - 2015
Although private equity firms are often criticized for layoffs, little evidence exists regarding which employees lose their jobs and why. We argue that explanations for the job polarization process can also explain layoffs after buyouts. Buyouts reduce agency problems, which triggers automation,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509073
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Acquisitions, multinationals and wage dispersion
Heyman, Fredrik (contributor); Sjöholm, Fredrik (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003389678
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Non-standard employment in Sweden
Skedinger, Per - 2018
In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … considerably smaller in Sweden, both for natives and foreign born, than those that have been found for other countries. This may be … due to a highly compressed wage structure and extensive coverage of collective bargaining in Sweden. On the whole, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011824750
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Collectively bargained wages and female earnings : evidence from Swedish local governments
Bustos, Emil - 2024
This paper studies how a special wage increase for assistant nurses in Sweden affected income and employment. Workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014577961
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Entrepreneurship, wage employment and control in an occupational choice framework
Douhan, Robin; Praag, Mirjam van - 2009
We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872559
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Seniority rules, worker mobility and wages : evidence from multi-country linked employer-employee data
Böckerman, Petri; Skedinger, Per; Uusitalo, Roope - 2016
We construct a multi-country employer-employee data to examine the consequences of employment protection. We identify the effects by comparing worker exit rates between units of the same firm that operate in two countries that have different seniority rules. The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011420652
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Offshoring, total factor productivity and skill-biased technological change
Akhmetova, Zhanar; Ferguson, Shon - 2015
The paper answers two questions simultaneously. What is the effect of offshoring on firms' total factor productivity? What is the effect of offshoring on skill-biased technological change? We estimate a model of firm production that allows for the effect of offshoring on both total factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283243