This article provides causal evidence of the significant role ethnic networks play in facilitating labor market integration by reducing information frictions. Using full population geocoded employer-employee matched Swedish register data, we investigate how co-ethnic commuters can influence the...

Preference for variety on behalf of consumers suggests that variety in supply is a pertinent characteristic of individual firms. This paper studies the relationship between export variety and exports on a cross-section of exporting firms in Sweden. Multi-product firms, i.e., firms which export a...

Using longitudinal Swedish data, we document robust evidence of highly local spillovers between individuals in similar occupations. The results are consistent with the existence of knowledge spillovers between workers performing similar work tasks in the same city-district. We further...