Working papers

We evaluate a two year school development program aimed at enhancing the quality of education for recent migrant students and Swedish language learners through customized packages of professional deve...

This paper provides a structural analysis of the role of job vacancy referrals (VRs) by public employment agencies in the job search behavior of unemployed individuals, incorporating institutional fea...

Individuals working in larger labor markets tend to earn more than those working in smaller labor markets, but the reason for this is still unclear. This paper studies whether larger cities provide be...

The affordability and stability of housing are key determinants of economic well-being, but their effects on the academic success of University students remain underexplored. This paper investigates t...

To estimate the causal effect of employment protection on firms’ worker selection, we study a policy change that reduced dismissal costs for the employers of over a tenth of Sweden’s workfor...

This study examines the influence of students’ ordinal positions in the distribution of grades in their ninth-grade school cohort on subsequent educational and labor market outcomes using popula...

We study how students adjust their early career choices in response to economic crises and how these decisions affect their long-run labor market outcomes. Focusing on Sweden’s deep recession in...

This paper incorporates labor market inactivity and long-term unemployment into the framework of optimal redistributive taxation. We examine how a combination of education policy, public employment pr...

While all children in Sweden are entitled to free, universal preschool from age 3, enrollment rates for children with an immigrant background – and especially for those in newly-arrived families...

We show that workers use outside options to extract match-specific rents. Exploiting unique data on worker skills, we construct a measure of match quality based on the relationship between workers&rsq...