Occupational Labor Markets
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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 Humanities and Social Sciences (HSFR) for the project “Pay and Promotion in Swedish Private Industries;” the Bechtel Initiative funding to the project “An Institutional Approach to Economic Growth: The Application of Firm Matched Data” at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, IIS, Stanford University; and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
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