Working papers

We study optimal housing taxation in a Mirrleesian framework where individuals differ in both labor productivity and land ownership. Housing services are produced by combining scarce land with structu...

Are workers with poor outside opportunities less responsive and more susceptible to negative demand shifts in routine occupations? To answer this, I create and estimate an occupation specialization in...

Performance pay has been shown to have important implications for worker and firm productivity.Although workers’ skills may directly matter for the cost of effort to reach performance goals, sur...

This paper explores post-pandemic developments and analyses post-COVID matching dynamics in the Nordic labour markets. It also discusses the role of institutions and the policies implemented to addres...

This study investigates the relationship between the urban wage premium and employer concentration using Swedish full population employer-employee data. Departing from an AKM modeling framework to dis...

An increase in the dividend tax on shares of Swedish closely-held corporations, scheduled for January 1, 2018, was canceled at short notice. In a difference-in-difference setting, we examine how firms...

Among economists, empirical analysis of social mobility and the role of parental background is largely carried out in two separate strands of research. The intergenerational mobility literature estima...

We present evidence that shared institutional and economic contexts may be at least as important as culturally rooted gender equality norms for the size of the motherhood penalty. Our study covers chi...

We study the effects of access to a child home care allowance on parents’ labor supply and childcare decisions, as well as their longer-term earnings trajectories and children’s school per...

We examine how exposure to recent migrants affects the academic performance of Swedish students. To identify the effect, we exploit variation in exposure to recent migrants between grades in a given s...