<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Håkanson, Christina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lindqvist, Erik</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Vlachos, Jonas</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Firms and Skills: The Evolution of Worker Sorting</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Journal of Human Resources</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2020-09-21 14:39:15</style></date></pub-dates></dates><doi><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">10.3368/jhr.56.2.0517-8801R2</style></doi><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%"></style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and non-cognitive skills across Swedish firms 1986-2008. During this period, worker skill differences between firms increased while within-firm skill differences fell. A significant fraction of the increase in the between-firm differences in cognitive skill is due to high-skilled workers moving into the IT and telecom sector. Within-firm skill differences fell in all major industries, but particularly in the manufacturing sector. Combined with steeper firm-level skill gradients, the increase in sorting can account for 45% of the increase in between-firm wage dispersion during our period of study.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>