Lena Hensvik
Professor
Lena Hensvik received her PhD from Uppsala University in 2011. Since then she has been a researcher at IFAU. Her research is mainly focused on labor economics, with a special interest in questions related to wage differentials, employment and worker-firm matching. Her research has been published in journals such as Journal of Labor Economics and Economic Journal. For further information, see her personal webpage.
Projects and publications at IFAU
Working papers
2021
2020
- Teacher career opportunities and school quality
- Workplace presenteeism, job substitutability and gender inequality
- Gig-jobs: stepping stones or dead ends?
2019
2017
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Connecting the young: high school graduates' matching to first jobs in booms and great recessions
The Economic Journal, (May 2023) vol. 133, no. 652, pp. 1466–1509
- The causal impact of social connections on firms' outcomes
2015
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Mismatch of talent: evidence on match quality, entry wages, and job mobility
American economic review, november 2018, vol. 108, no. 11, pp. 3303-3338
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The strength of the weakest link: sickness absence, internal substitutability and worker-firm matching
Journal of Human Resources, January 2019, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 200-224
2013
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Social networks, employee selection and labor market outcomes
Journal of Labor Economics, 2016, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 825-867
- Networks and youth labor market entry
2011
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Manager impartiality? Worker-firm matching and the gender wage gap
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2014, vol. 67 no. 2, pp. 395-421
2010
- Competition, wages and teacher sorting: four lessons from a voucher reform
- Businesses, buddies and babies: social ties and fertility at work