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.
Research Affiliates: CEPR and IFAU.
Email: lena.hensvik@nek.uu.se
NEWS: SNS Economic Policy Council Report 2023 "Structural Transformation of the Swedish Labor Market: Consequences and Policy Measures"
PUBLISHED AND FORTHCOMING WORK
Hensvik L. and O. Nordström Skans (2022), ”The Skill-Specific Impact of Past and Projected Occupational Decline”, Labour Economics 81:102326.
Azmat, G., Hensvik, L. and Rosenqvist, O. (2022) “Workplace Preseenteism, Job Substitutability and Gender Inequality”, Journal of Human Resources, 1121-12014R2.
Hensvik L., D. Müller and ON Skans, (2022) "Connecting the Young: High School Graduates' Matching to First jobs in Booms and Great Recessions", Economic Journal, 133.652 (2023): 1466-1509.
Adermon, A. and Hensvik. L. (2022), "Gig-jobs: stepping stones or dead ends?", Labour Economics, 76 (2022):102171.
Eliason M, L Hensvik, F Kramarz and O N Skans, (2022) "Social Connections and the Sorting of Workers to Firms", Journal of Econometrics (2022).
Grönqvist E., Hensvik L. and Thoresson A. (2021) "Teacher Career Opportunities and School Quality", Labour Economics, 2021: 101997.
Hensvik L., Le Barbanchon T. and Rathelot, R. (2021) "Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis", Journal of Public Economics, vol. 194 (2021): 104349
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.
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 N Skans (2016),"Social Networks, Employee Selection and Labor Market Outcomes", Journal of Labor Economics, volume 34, no. 4, pp 825-867 (Awarded the 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. (Awarded the CESifo Prize in Employment and Social Protection)
WORKING PAPERS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Eliason M, L Hensvik, F Kramarz and O N Skans, (2017) "The Causal Impact of Social Connections on Firm's Outcomes", CEPR Discussion Paper DP12135.
Nilsson P and Hensvik L, "Businesses, Buddies and Babies: Social Ties and Fertility at Work", IFAU Working Paper 2010:9.
SELECTED WORK IN PROGRESS
Women's Labor Market Opportunities and Equality in the Household, with Erik Grönqvist, Yoko Okuyama and Anna Thoresson (submitted)
Recommender systems and the labor market, with Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot.
How do men and women search for jobs?, with Thomas Le Barbanchon and Roland Rathelot
Match quality and the cyclicality of rents, with Simon Ek, Peter Fredriksson and Oskar Skans.