RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Firms and Skills
JF Journal of Human Resources
JO J Hum Resour
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 512
OP 538
DO 10.3368/jhr.56.2.0517-8801R2
VO 56
IS 2
A1 Christina Håkanson
A1 Erik Lindqvist
A1 Jonas Vlachos
YR 2021
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/56/2/512.abstract
AB We document a significant increase in the sorting of workers by cognitive and noncognitive skills across Swedish firms during 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 information and communications technology (ICT) 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 percent of the increase in between-firm wage dispersion during our period of study.