Arbeitspapier
Trade Competition, Technology and Labour Reallocation
This paper provides new evidence on the reallocation of workers across firms and industries with different technologies in response to increased import competition from developing countries. Using employer-employee matched data for the Swedish manufacturing sector, we find increased assortative matching of workers in ICT (information and communication technologies) intensive industries, that is, high(low)-wage workers sort into high(low)-wage firms. Industries with low ICT intensity do not exhibit these sorting patterns. A labour market matching model explains the increased assortative matching in ICT intensive industries in response to stronger import competition through an increase in the relative demand for qualified workers.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10034
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Trade and Labor Market Interactions
Labor Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs
Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- Subject
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wage inequality
employment dynamics
assortative matching
import competition
technological change
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Baziki, Selva B.
Ginja, Rita
Borota Milicevic, Teodora
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
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Bonn
- (when)
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2016
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Baziki, Selva B.
- Ginja, Rita
- Borota Milicevic, Teodora
- Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Time of origin
- 2016
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