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1. Importing automation and wage inequality through foreign acquisitions

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Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the form of foreign direct investments to widen domestic wage inequality. We show that foreign acquisitions of domestic firms disproportionately affect wages for workers who perform tasks sensitive to the technology specialization (software or robotics) of the acquiring firm. Based on Swedish matched employer-employee data covering two decades and staggered difference-indifferences methods we find wages to decline by up to 5.2% annually over an eight-year post period. Our results suggest that a trade policy aimed at attracting foreign companies with high technological capabilities can help countries advance technologically, but this may come at the cost of increased domestic wage inequality.

Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Tåg, Joacim;
2023
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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2. Long-run effects of technological change : the impact of automation and robots on intergenerational mobility

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This paper examines whether recent advancements in automation and robotics have affected intergenerational income mobility. Using detailed data on all individuals and firms registered in Sweden, we study whether parental exposure to robots at the occupational level and heterogeneous adoption of robots across industries and regions influence children's outcomes in adulthood. We find that occupational exposure to robots is associated with lower income mobility for children. Based on a shift-share IV approach, we show that the lower intergenerational income mobility originates from industry-regions with a relatively large increase in robot adoption. In addition, we show that these children are worse off on a number of labor market and family-related outcomes. Our results point to a new channel through which technological changes affect intergenerational mobility and indicate that automation and exposure to new technologies can have long-lasting effects.

Heyman, Fredrik; Olsson, Martin;
2022
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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3. How international experience helps shape labor market outcomes

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This paper examines how experience from working in a foreign owned firm affects worker mobility. International experience can provide a worker with knowledge about foreign operations, thereby making them more attractive to other employers who are also engaged in international businesses. We follow workers in local Swedish firms where some experience an internationalization shock when their firm is acquired by a foreign multinational firm. Matching acquired firms with a group of similar control firms and applying a stacked difference-in-differences estimation approach, we find that international experience increases the likelihood of job switching to a multinational firm by around 4 percentage points and decreases the likelihood of job switching to a local firm by around 5 percentage points. Moreover, the post-acquisition wage growth rate is 10 percentage points higher for workers moving to MNEs as compared to stayers at acquired firms, leading to a steeper wage growth trajectory for movers to MNEs.

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Zhu, Susan Chun;
2022
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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4. Ekonomiska krisers dynamik : en ESO-rapport om företagsomställning och strukturomvandling

Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars;
2021
Type: Amtliche Publikation; Amtsdrucksache; Amtliche Druckschrift; Amtliche Veröffentlichung; Offizielle Publikation; Regierungsveröffentlichung; Amtsdruckschrift; Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature;
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5. Importing automation and wage inequality through foreign acquisitions

Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Tåg, Joacim;
2023
Type: Working Paper;
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6. Long-run effects of technological change: The impact of automation and robots on intergenerational mobility

Heyman, Fredrik; Olsson, Martin;
2023
Type: Working Paper;
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7. Importing Automation and Wage Inequality Through Foreign Acquisitions

abstract

Is technology or trade driving increases in wage inequality? We propose that technology interacts with trade in the form of foreign direct investments to widen domestic wage inequality. We show that foreign acquisitions of domestic firms disproportionately affect wages for workers who perform tasks sensitive to the technology specialization (software or robotics) of the acquiring firm. Based on Swedish matched employer-employee data covering two decades and staggered difference-in-differences methods we find wages to decline by up to 5.2% annually over an eight-year post period. Our results suggest that a trade policy aimed at attracting foreign companies with high technological capabilities can help countries advance technologically, but this may come at the cost of increased domestic wage inequality

Gardberg, Malin; Heyman, Fredrik; Tåg, Joacim;
2023
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8. Globalization, recruitments, and job mobility

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Zhu, Susan Chun;
2023
Type: Aufsatz in Zeitschrift; Article in journal;
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9. Talent, career choice and competition : the gender wage gap at the top

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We propose a management career model where females face a gender-specific career hurdle. We show that female managers will, on average, be more skilled than male managers, since females from the low end of the talent distribution will abstain from investing in a career as a manager. The average female manager will then be better at mitigating more intense product market competition. When the intensity of product market competition increases, hirings and wages for female managers will therefore increase relative to those of male managers. Using Swedish matched employer-employee data, we find strong empirical evidence for all these predictions.

Heyman, Fredrik; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars;
2020
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
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10. Globalization, recruitments, and job mobility

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Previous research indicates that exporting firms are willing to pay a premium to poach workers from other exporting firms if experience working for an internationally engaged firm reduces trade costs. Since international experience is less valuable to non-exporters, we would expect to see differences in recruitments between firms that are internationally engaged and those that serve only their domestic market. Moreover, as emphasized in Davidson et al. (2020), increased openness might lead to higher job-to-job mobility if increased globalization increases both the share of exporters as well as the number of workers with skills that make them attractive for other exporters. Using linked Swedish employer-employee data for the period 1997-2013, we do find systematic differences between the way exporters and non-exporters recruit workers: exporters have a relatively high share of recruitments from other exporters as hypothesized. We also find that increased openness correlates positively (negatively) with upward (downward) mobility. The effects are strongest for professionals and managers. Hence, our findings provide empirical support for Davidson et al. (2020).

Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven J.; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Zhu, Susan Chun;
2020
Type: Graue Literatur; Non-commercial literature; Arbeitspapier; Working Paper;
Availability: Link

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