Swedish manufacturing sector, we find increased assortative matching of workers in ICT (information and communication … intensity do not exhibit these sorting patterns. A labour market matching model explains the increased assortative matching in …

Can the standard search-and-matching labor market model replicate the business cycle fluctuations of the job finding … rate and the unemployment rate? In the odel, these fluctuations are driven by movements in productivity. This paper … inestigates the sources of productivity fluctuations that are commonly interpreted s technology shocks. I estimate different types …

demand for skilled labor: technological change in firm‐specific productivity and technological change in labor productivity …. We find that technological change in labor productivity, in the form of higher returns to skill in production, is the … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form …

provide new evidence on the mobility of heterogeneous workers across firms and document increased assortative matching of … sorting patterns. We rationalize our empirical findings through a labor market matching model which is able to explain the … increased assortative matching in ICT intensive industries through an increase in the relative demand for qualified workers. …

This paper studies the impact of long-run productivity growth on job finding and separation rates, and thus the … unemployment rate, using a search and matching model. We incorporate disembodied technological progress and on-the-job search into … growth on unemployment compared to the standard matching model with disembodied technological progress …

productivity. Further, when our model is subjected to skill-upgrading and changes in employee bargaining power, it is capable of … employees’ relative productivity, i.e., skill-biased technological change, are unlikely to have caused the increase in income …