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Firms and Skills

The Evolution of Worker Sorting

Christina Håkanson, Erik Lindqvist and Jonas Vlachos
Journal of Human Resources, March 2021, 56 (2) 512-538; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.56.2.0517-8801R2
Christina Håkanson
Christina Håkanson is a senior economist at the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council.
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Erik Lindqvist is a professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University and an affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
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vol. 56 no. 2 512-538
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.56.2.0517-8801R2
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University of Wisconsin Press
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0022-166X
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1548-8004
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  • Received May 1, 2017
  • Accepted July 1, 2019
  • Published online March 25, 2021.

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  1. Christina Håkanson,
  2. Erik Lindqvist⇑ and
  3. Jonas Vlachos
  1. Christina Håkanson is a senior economist at the Swedish Fiscal Policy Council.
  2. Erik Lindqvist is a professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University and an affiliated researcher at the Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).
  3. Jonas Vlachos is a professor at the Department of Economics at Stockholm University.
  1. The authors are willing to assist (erik.lindqvist{at}sofi.su.se).
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    • I. Introduction
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    • III. Measuring Sorting
    • IV. Sorting by Skill 1986–2008
    • V. Decomposing the Change in Sorting
    • VI. Sorting and Firm Wage Differentials
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