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IFN Researcher
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
Wage Policies and the Integration of Immigrants Revisited
This chapter reflects on the role of wage policies in facilitating the labour market integration of immigrants. The overall analysis in this chapter suggests that minimum wage cuts, combined with othe…
Book Chapter
Publish date 10/14/2021
Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets – The impact of ghe COVID 19-pandemic
Per Skedinger, IFN, is one of the authors of a new report commissioned by the Nordic Council of Ministers/ Nordregio.
News
Publish date 10/20/2021
Ethnic Enclaves and Self-Employment among Middle Eastern Immigrants in Sweden: Ethnic Capital or Enclave Size?
We employ geocoded data to explore the effects of ethnic enclaves in Swedish cities on the propensity of Middle Eastern immigrants to transcend from having no employment to self-employment. We demonst…
Journal Article
Publish date 3/30/2021
Graduate Student
Ideological Spillovers Across the Atlantic? Evidence from Trump’s Presidential Election
Ideological spillovers refer to the modification of an individual’s core beliefs after learning about other people's beliefs. We study one specific international ideological spillover, namely, the ef…
Journal Article
Publish date 4/22/2022
Affiliated Researcher
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 12/14/2021
Fairness, Flexibility and the Far Right: Understanding the Relationship between Populism, Social Spending and Labor Markets
The large increase in economic inequality and the dismantling of the welfare state in Western democracies has been connected to the rise of populist parties. If populist voting is explained by fear an…
Working Paper
Publish date 9/1/2021
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
Affiliated Researcher
IFN Researcher