Research fellows

Johanna Rickne

Ph.D.

Research interests: Labour Economics, Development Economics, Family Economics, and Political Economics.

Among the questions that Johanna Rickne tries to answer with her research:

According to which principles are Swedish politicians recruited and promoted?
How is the development of China's social security system affectinging incomes, income inequality and business costs? How will the expansion of China's social security system affect income, income equality, and business costs?
What types of family-friendly work-policies are used by Swedish firms, and what are the consequences of this for patterns of hiring, careers, health and productivity?

New research

Labor Market Conditions and Social Insurance in China Johanna Rickne

Johanna Rickne's research interests include labor economics, family economics, and political economics. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on inequalities in labor compensation in the Chinese industrial sector. Currently, her main research project targets the selection and promotion of politicians, including case studies of gender quotas, preferential voting, and policy outcomes in Swedish municipalities.

Johanna Rickne

Contact

Ph: +46 8 665 4528
Mob: +46 70 433 7388
johanna.rickne@ifn.se

Introduction

Johanna Rickne got her doctorate in economics at Uppsala University in 2011 and has since worked at the Research Institute for Industrial Economics. She is also affiliated to the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies and teaches at Columbia University.

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The Research Institute of Industrial Economics, IFN, is a private and independent foundation devoted to pursuing highly relevant research for trade and industry.

The researchers at IFN are united in their belief that economic methods offer a powerful tool for understanding society.

The main research programmes are:

economics of entrepreneurship
globalization and corporate restructuring
economics of the service sector
economics of the electricity markets.

Global Award

Research on entrepreneurship

The Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research has become firmly established as the foremost global award for research on entrepreneurship.This Prize is awarded annually with a prize sum of EUR 100,000.

IFN in cooperation with Entreprenörskapsforum and VINNOVA are the principals of the award.

Professor Maryann Feldman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the 2013 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.