Occupational Selection in Multilingual Labor Markets

Occupational Labor Markets

This paper is based on individual-level wage data made available by the Swedish Employers’ Federation (SAF). We are grateful to Ari Hietasalo and Åke Kempe SAF for their extensive and exceptionally expert cooperation in preparing these data for analysis. We thank John Ekberg and Jeremy Fox for excellent research assistance. This research was supported by the Swedish Council for Research in the ...

Capacity Constrained Firms in (Labor) Markets with Adverse Selection

We discuss a competitive (labor) market where firms face capacity constraints and individuals differ according to their productivity. Firms offer two-dimensional contracts like wage and task level. Then workers choose firms and contracts. Workers might be rationed if the number of applicants exceeds the capacity of the firm. We show that under reasonable assumptions on the distribution of capac...

Uninsurance and Adverse Selection in Health Insurance and Labor Markets

Labor Specialization, Ethnicity, and Metropolitan Labor Markets

This paper provides an empirical assessment of the extent to which co-ethnic workers are underor overrepresented in industry and occupation-based employment sectors based on the characteristics of workers themselves, attributes and resources of ethnic groups in which workers are affiliated, and characteristics of metropolitan areas. Specifically, the paper evaluates two claims found in the lite...

Local Labor Markets

I examine the causes and the consequences of differences in labor market outcomes across local labor markets within a country. The focus is on a long-run general equilibrium setting, where workers and firms are free to move across localities and local prices adjust to maintain the spatial equilibrium. In particular, I develop a tractable general equilibrium framework of local labor markets with...