The functioning of the labour market

The project examines the role of personal connections between individuals serving on corporate boards in firms’ ability to adjust their workforce. Building on previous research on informal conta...

This project aims to describe intergenerational social mobility among children of immigrants and to include Swedish experiences in a broad international comparison. Through standardised analyses acros...

The aim of this study is to examine the Swedish Police from a labor economics perspective, in order to understand how personnel policies can be used to influence the composition of the police in terms...

One objective of the Swedish parental leave policy has been to encourage greater equality between mothers and fathers in time spent caring for their newborn. The introduction of “daddy months&rd...

The gender wage gap has narrowed over the last few decades. However, a significant gap remains in most Western countries, and it tends to increase after women have had their first child. This project ...

A growing literature suggests that outside job offers are an important component of on-the-job wage growth. A standard hypothesis is that the labour market is characterised by a sequence of offers fro...

The project studies how work experience in the host country affects immigrants’ wages, earnings, and employment. Experience is a key factor in economic models that aim at explaining individuals&...

It is a well-established fact that children from high-income families tend to have high incomes themselves. However, the knowledge about what explains this intergenerational income correlation is more...

This project studies the long-term individual effects of the major economic crisis in the early 1990s in Sweden. We particularly focus on differences in the magnitude of the crisis between different l...

Although technological advances improve productivity and standards of living, not all workers gain equally. New technologies are likely to have distributional consequences by creating winners and lose...