Jan Sauermann
Associate professor
Jan Sauermann received his PhD in economics from Maastricht University in 2013. He previously worked at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University. His research interests are centered around learning and incentives in the workplace, origins and consequences of course choice in education, and gender differences in the labour market.
Jan is currently employed as a researcher at IFAU in Uppsala. Jan is also affiliated with SOFI, the Research Centre for Education and the Labour Market (ROA), the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), and the Center for Corporate Performance (CCP).
Projects and publications at IFAU
Working papers
2025
- Making the right call: the heterogeneous effects of individual performance pay on productivity
- The effects of increasing compensatory resource allocation on student achievement
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The effect of employment protection on firms’ worker selection
Journal of Human Resources (November 2024) Volume 59, Issue 6
2022
- Earnings losses and the role of the welfare state during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from Sweden