Anna Thoresson
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I am an Assistant Professor in Economics at Reykjavik University (RU). I am also affiliated with the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU) and the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS).
My main research interests are in labor economics and applied microeconomics.
I obtained my Ph.D. in Economics from Uppsala University in 2021.
My email is annat@ru.is. You can find my CV here.
Published and forthcoming work
Employer concentration and wages for specialized workers, AEJ: Applied Economics (2024) https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20210280&&from=f
Abstract: This paper studies how wages respond to a sudden change in employer concentration by using the deregulation of the Swedish pharmacy industry. The reform involved a substantial and policy driven increase in the number of employers that varied by local labor market. Exploiting this variation, elasticities of wages with respect to labor market concentration are estimated between -0.025 and -0.061. The positive wage effects from reduced employer concentration are most prevalent for more mobile workers, as well as younger and foreign born workers. Overall, the paper finds that employer concentration matters for wages in a context where skills are industry-specific.
Media coverage: Arbetsvärlden, Tidningen Näringslivet
Teacher career opportunities and school quality (with Erik Grönqvist and Lena Hensvik), Labour Economics (2022) doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101997 Online appendix
Working paper version: IFAU Working Paper 2020:2
Media coverage: Swedish Radio, UNT, Skolvärlden, Forskning & Framsteg
Working papers
Firm productivity and immigrant-native earnings disparity (with Cristina Bratu, Stefano Lombardi and Olof Åslund) - New version coming soon!
Abstract: We study the role of firm productivity in explaining earnings disparities between immigrants and natives using population-wide matched employer-employee data from Sweden. We find substantial earnings returns to working in firms with higher persistent productivity, with greater gains for immigrants from non-Western countries. Moreover, the pass-through of within-firm productivity variation to earnings is stronger for immigrants in low-productive, immigrant-dense firms. But immigrant workers are underrepresented in high-productive firms and less likely to move up the productivity distribution. Thus, sorting into less productive firms decreases earnings in poor-performing immigrant groups that would gain the most from working in high-productive firms.
Working paper: IFAU Working paper 2021:18
Work-in-progress
Women's labor market opportunities and equality in the household (with Erik Grönqvist, Lena Hensvik and Yoko Okuyama) - Working paper coming soon!
The impact of restricting parental benefits on the integration of non-EU immigrant families (with Caroline Hall, Erica Lindahl and Malin Tallås Ahlzén)
Parental job promotions and child health (with Ana Costa-Ramón, Ana Rodríguez-González, Erik Grönqvist, Lena Hensvik and Helena Svaleryd).