The functioning of the labour market

In this project, we examine how physicians’ position in the income distribution varies across countries with very different levels of physician earnings. As healthcare costs rise and populations...

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...

In this project, we use Finnish corporate data that covers all Finnish companies and take advantage of tax regulations that provide variation for the tax treatment of different companies. One such tax...

The aim of this project is to provide a comprehensive account of how workforce composition, wage levels, and job attractiveness have evolved in the publicly funded sector over recent decades. The moti...

While women’s opportunities to break the so-called “glass ceiling” and reach leadership positions have increased over time, women remain underrepresented in leadership positions. Thi...

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...

This project studies how firms’ prior employment experience in an occupation shapes hiring, wage setting, and post-hire outcomes. Using matched employer-employee data from Sweden, I distinguish ...

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 limited social networks of foreign-born individuals are often highlighted as an important reason for the group’s weak labor market outcomes and social exclusion. This project will study a ra...