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Social Networks and Immigrant Integration: Experimental Evidence from Sweden
Immigrant integration is key to realizing the potential of international migration in economic development. However, integration is often thought to be hampered by immigrants' limited social networks…
Journal Article
Publish date 5/30/2022
What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?
We use rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study the lack of women among CEOs. A comprehensive battery of graduates’ characteristics explains 40% of the gender…
Working Paper
Publish date 2/18/2016
What Prevents Women from Reaching the Top?
We use rich data on all business, economics, and engineering graduates in Sweden to study the lack of women among CEOs. A comprehensive battery of graduates’ characteristics explains 40% of the gender…
Journal Article
Publish date 2/15/2022
JAQ of All Trades: Job Mismatch, Firm Productivity and Managerial Quality
Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this question we develop a job-worker allocation quality measure (JAQ) by combining employer…
Working Paper
Publish date 4/1/2022
Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Refugee Integration: An Experimental Study
We study the causal effects of previous experience and language skills when newly arrived refugees in Sweden apply for job openings by means of a field experiment. Applications were sent from randomly…
Working Paper
Publish date 8/11/2021
International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/17/2022
IFN Researcher
Ekonomipriset säger inget om svenska minimilöner
Årets Nobelpris i ekonomi har missuppfattats av många i svenska medier. De missar att David Cards forskningsrön om minimilöner är inte överförbara till svenska förhållanden.
Popular Science
Publish date 12/10/2021
Maximalt önsketänkande? En kritisk granskning av EU:s minimilönedirektiv
EU-kommissionens förslag till minimilönedirektiv, vars slutversion väntas under våren 2022, syftar till att säkerställa en adekvat lägsta lön för alla arbetstagare i unionen och att därigenom motverka…
Article in Swedish
Publish date 3/18/2022
IFN Researcher
Trust Us to Repay: Social Trust, Long-Term Interest Rates, and Sovereign Credit Ratings
This paper asks whether the sensitivity of market long-term interest rates and credit ratings is associated with cross-country differences in informal institutions, measured by social trust. We note a…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/13/2021