Research interests:
Empirical labor economics, applied econometrics and international economics.
Among the questions that Fredrik Heyman tries to answer with his research:
- How is employment and wages affected by globalization?
- How do mergers and acquisitions influence employees and companies?
- What are the effects of foreign direct investments and multinational companies’ presence in Sweden on the Swedish labor market?
New research
Competition, Takeovers, and Gender Discrimination
Fredrik Heyman, Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos
"Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching Sorting" (with Carl Davidson, Steven Matusz, Fredrik Sjöholm and Susan Chun Zhu). American Economic Review Papers & Proceedings, Vol. 102, No. 3, 2012. Working Paper version.
"Competition, Takeovers and Gender Discrimination" (with Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 66, No. 2, 2013. Working Paper version.
"Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Dispersion" (with Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall and Fredrik Sjöholm), Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 44, No. 2, May 2011, pp 627-650. Working Paper version.
"Cross-Border Acquisitions, Multinationals and Wage Elasticities" (with Katariina Hakkala and Fredrik Sjöholm). Review of World Economics, Vol. 146, No. 2, 2010, pp. 263-280. Working Paper version.
"Do Entrenched Managers Pay Their Workers More? (with Henrik Cronqvist, Mattias Nilsson, Helena Svaleryd and Jonas Vlachos). Journal of Finance,Vol. 64, No. 1, 2009, pp. 309-339. Working Paper version.
"Is there Really a Foreign Ownership Wage Premium? Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data" (with Fredrik Sjöholm and Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall ), Journal of International Economics, Vol. 73, No. 2, 2007, pp. 355–376. Working Paper version.
"Microdata Evidence on Rent-Sharing" (med Mahmood Arai), Applied Economics, Vol. 41, No. 23, 2009, pp. 2965-2976. Working Paper-version.
"Firm Size or Firm Age? The Effect on Wages Using Matched Employer-Employee Data". LABOUR, Vol. 21, No. 2, 2007, pp. 237-263. Working Paper version.
"How Wage Compression Affects Job Turnover". Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2008, pp. 11-26. Working Paper version.
"Pay Inequality and Firm Performance: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data", Applied Economics, Vol. 37, No. 11, 2005, pp. 1313-1327.
"Temporary Contracts and the Dynamics of Job Turnover" (with Mahmood Arai), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2004. Working Paper version.
"Empirical Studies on Wages, Firm Performance and Job Turnover" , Doctoral Thesis, Stockholm School of Economics, 2002.
Working papers
"The Dynamics of Offshoring and Institutions" (with Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall),Working Paper No. 919, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, 2012. (submitted).
"Globalization and Imperfect Labor Market Sorting" (with Carl Davidson, Steven Matusz, Fredrik Sjöholm och Susan Chun Zhu), Working Paper No. 856, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, 2010. Revise and re-submit, Journal of International Economics.
"Employment Protection Reform, Enforcement in Collective Agreements and Worker Flows" (with Per Skedinger), Working Paper No. 876, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, 2011. Revise and re-submit, Labour Economics.
"Multinational Firms and Job Tasks" (with Katariina Hakkala and Fredrik Sjöholm), Working Paper No. 781, Research Institute of Industrial Economics, 2008. Revise and re-submit, European Economic Review.
In Swedish
Jobbdynamiken i svenskt näringsliv 1990 till 2009 (with Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson), forthcoming report to "Expertgruppen för offentlig ekonomi" (ESO), 2013.
Utlandsägande och utländska uppköp: Vilken betydelse har huvudägarens hemvist? (with Pehr-Johan Norbäck), report to the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications. IFN Policy Paper nr 61, 2013.
"Globalisering och matchning på arbetsmarknaden", Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol. 40, No 1, 2012 (with Fredrik Sjöholm), 2012.
"Lönespridning inom företag och produktivitet – en internationell forskningsöversikt", Ekonomiska Samfundets tidskrift, No. 1, april 2012.
"Sambandet mellan lönespridning inom företag och produktivitet: vad säger forskningen?", IFN Policy Paper nr 52, 2012.
Konkurrens och effektivitetseffekter av privatiseringar (with Pehr-Johan Norbäck and Lars Persson), Research report to the Swedish Competition Authority (Uppdragsforskningsrapport Konkurrensverket 2012:4).
Arbetsmarknadseffekter av utländska direktinvesteringar (with Katariina Hakkala and Fredrik Sjöholm). Underlagsrapport nr 16 till Globaliseringsrådet, 2008.
"Utlandsägande och löner i Sverige", Ekonomisk Debatt, Vol. 34, No 4, 2006 (with Fredrik Sjöholm and Patrik Gustavsson Tingvall).