Oskar Nordström Skans

2002

• Follow-up of EU's recommendations on labour market policies

2025

• Outside options and the sharing of match-specific rents

2024

• The heterogeneous earnings impact of job lossacross workers, establishments, and markets

2022

• When workers’ skills become unbundled: Some empirical consequences for sorting and wages

  The Economics of Creative Destruction, Harvard University Press (2023) ch.9

2020

• Family background and the responses to higher SAT scores

  Journal of Human Resources (June 2023) vol. 58, no. 5

2019

• Skills, education and fertility -and the confounding impact of family background

  Journal of Population Economics (January 2023), vol.36, no. 1, pp. 235-262

• The skill-specific impact of past and projected occupational decline

  Labour Economics (April 2023) vol. 81, 102326

2018

• Firm types, price-setting strategies, and consumption-tax incidence?

  Journal of Public Economics (Sep. 2018), vol. 165, pp. 48-72

• Wage subsidies, job-displacement and Swedish firms: A comparison between policy systems

  Labour Economics, August 2018, vol.53, pp. 33-45

• Early labor market prospects and family formation

  Journal of Human Resources (May 2022), doi: 10.3368/jhr.1220-11387R1, first online

2017

• 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

  Journal of Econometrics, online first (May 2022)

2016

• Leadership experiences, labor market entry, and early career trajectories

  Journal of Human Resources (2021), vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 512-538

• Fixed wage contracts and monetary non-neutrality

  American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics (2019), vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 171-192

2015

• Mismatch of talent: evidence on match quality, entry wages, and job mobility

  American economic review, november 2018, vol. 108, no. 11, pp. 3303-3338

2014

• Negotiated wage increases and the labor market outcomes of low-wage workers: evidence from the Swedish public sector
• Firm-level shocks and labor adjustments

  The Economic Journal, vol. 131, no. 634, pp. 598–623

2013

• Political training as a pathway to power: the impact of participation in student union councils on candidate emergence

  Political Behavior, 2016, vol. 38, no. 2, pp.433-454

• 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

  Nordic Economic Policy Review, 2014, no.1, pp. 81-117

2012

• Workfare for the old and long-term unemployed

  Labour Economics, 2013, vol. 25, pp. 25-34

2011

• Evaluating microfoundations for aggregate price rigidities: evidence from matched firm-level data on product prices and unit labor cost

  American Economic Review, 2012, vol. 104, no. 4, pp. 1571-95

• Wage adjustment and productivity shocks

  The Economic Journal, 2016, vol. 126, no. 595, pp. 1739-1773

• Paths to higher office: evidence from the Swedish Civil Service
• When strong ties are strong – networks and youth labor market entry

  Review of Economic Studies, 2014, vol. 81, no. 3, pp. 1164-1200

2009

• The duration of paid parental leave and children's scholastic performance

  The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2010, vol. 10, no. 1

• Age at migration and social integration

  Labour Economics, 2015, vol. 35, pp. 135–144

• Seeking similarity: how immigrants and natives manage at the labor market

  Journal of Labor Economics, July 2014, vol. 32, no. 3

2007

• Do anonymous job application procedures level the playing field?

  Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, vol. 65, nr. 1

2006

• Swedish youth labour market policies revisited

  Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 2006, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 168-185

• Wage dispersion between and within plants: Sweden 1985-2000

  "The Structure of Wages: An International Comparison", University of Chicago Press, 2009

• Mind the gap? Estimating the effects of postponing higher education

  Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 60, no. 4, pp. 683-710

2005

• Measuring conditional segregation: method

  Journal of Population Economics 2009, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 971-981

• Causal effects of subsidized career breaks

  Empirical Economics, 2014, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 593-617

• Stepping-stones or dead-ends? An analysis of Swedish replacement contracts

  Empirical Economics 2010, vol. 38, no. 3, pp.645-668

• Will I see you at work? Ethnic workplace segregation in Sweden 1985-2002

  Industrial and Labor Relations Review 2010, vol. 63, no. 3, pp. 471-493

2004

• Early indication of program performance: The case of a Swedish temporary employment program
• Scarring effects of the first labour market experience: A sibling based analysis

2002

• Age effects in Swedish local labour markets

  Economics Letters 2005, vol. 86, iss. 3, pp. 419-426