Lena Hensvik
Professor, Department of Economics, Uppsala University.
My research focuses on labor economics, with a current interest in job search, worker-firm matching and wage determination.
Find my CV here.
Research Affiliates: CEPR and IFAU.
Co-Editor of Labour Economics.
Email: lena.hensvik@nek.uu.se
NEWS: Awarded the Consolidator grant from the Swedish Research Council for the period 2021-2026 (12 million SEK)
PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING WORK
Hensvik L., Le Barbanchon T. and Rathelot, R. (2020) "Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis", IZA DP No. 13237, Journal of Public Economics (accepted).
Fredriksson P., Hensvik L and O N Skans, (2018) "Mismatch of Talent? Evidence on Match Quality, Job Mobility and Entry Wages", American Economic Review, vol 108, No. 11, November.
Hensvik L., and O. Rosenqvist, (2019), "Keeping the Production Line Running: Internal Substitution and Employee absence", Journal of Human Resources 54.1 (2019): 200-224.
Hensvik L. and O N Skans (2016),"Social Networks, Employee Selection and Labor Market Outcomes", Journal of Labor Economics, volume 34, no. 4, pp 825-867 [Lead article] (H. Gregg Lewis Prize for best paper in Journal of Labor Economics 2016-17).
Hensvik L. and O N Skans, (2014), "Networks and Youth Labor Market Entry", Nordic Economic Policy Review, Issue 1 pp. 81-117.
Hensvik L. (2014),"Manager Impartiality? Worker-Firm Matching and the Gender Wage Gap", Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 67, No. 2, April.
Åslund, O, Hensvik L and O N Skans (2014), "Seeking Similarity: How Immigrants and Natives Manage at the Labor Market", Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 32, No. 3, July.
Hensvik L (2012), "Competition, Wages and Teacher Sorting: Lessons Learned from a Voucher Reform", Economic Journal, Vol. 122, Issue 561, pp.799-824.
WORKING PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Adermon, A. and Hensvik. L. (2020), "Gig-jobs: stepping stones or dead ends?", CEPR Discussion Paper DP15420 (submitted).
Azmat, G., Hensvik, L. and Rosenqvist, O. (2020) "Workplace Preseenteism, "Job substitutability and Gender Inequality", CEPR Discussion Paper DP14982 (submitted).
Grönqvist E., Hensvik L. and Thoresson A. (2019) " Teacher Career Opportunities and School Quality", IFAU Working Paper 2020:2 (submitted).
Hensvik L and ON Skans (2019) "The Skill-Specific Impact of Past and Projected Occupational Decline" IFAU Working Paper 2019:28 (submitted)
Hensvik L., D. Müller and ON Skans, (2016) "Connecting the Young: High School Graduates' Matching to First jobs in Booms and Great Recessions", IFAU Working Paper 2017:2, R&R, 3d round, Economic Journal.
Eliason M, L Hensvik, F Kramarz and O N Skans, (2018) "Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms", mimeo Uppsala University (submitted).
Eliason M, L Hensvik, F Kramarz and O N Skans, (2017) "The Causal Impact of Social Connections on Firm's Outcomes", IFAU Working Paper 2017:11 .
Nilsson P and Hensvik L, "Businesses, Buddies and Babies: Social Ties and Fertility at Work", IFAU Working Paper 2010:9.
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
Spousal earnings and household dynamics: Evidence from a promotion reform, with Erik Grönsqvist and Anna Thoresson
Recommender systems and the labour market, with Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot.
On the right track? High school choice and performance, with Vivika Halapuu.