%0 Report
        %A Baziki, Selva B.
%A Ginja, Rita
%A Milicevic, Teodora Borota
        %T Trade Competition, Technology and Labour Reallocation
        %D 2016
        %8 2016 Jul
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10034
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10034
        %X This paper provides new evidence on the reallocation of workers across firms and industries with different technologies in response to increased import competition from developing countries. Using employer-employee matched data for the Swedish manufacturing sector, we find increased assortative matching of workers in ICT (information and communication technologies) intensive industries, that is, high(low)-wage workers sort into high(low)-wage firms. Industries with low ICT intensity do not exhibit these sorting patterns. A labour market matching model explains the increased assortative matching in ICT intensive industries in response to stronger import competition through an increase in the relative demand for qualified workers.
        %K wage inequality
%K employment dynamics
%K assortative matching
%K import competition
%K technological change