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Corruption
Culture
Income and wealth inequality
Labor economics
Migration
Minimum wages
Political economy
Affiliated Researcher
Politisk kartellbildning som förklaring till Sverigedemokraternas framgång
Sverigedemokraterna har, i likhet med andra populistiska partier i Europa, vuxit kraftigt i de senaste valen. En trolig förklaring till denna uppgång kan finnas i att Sverigedemokraterna har erbjudit…
Book Chapter
Publish date 1/31/2022
IFN Researcher
Graduate Student
Coups, Regime Transitions, and Institutional Consequences
Coups and regime transitions are events that typically are intended to change the basic institutional framework of a country. Which specific institutions change and the consequences of these changes n…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/4/2021
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
Civic Honesty and Cultures of Trust
Recent work in Cohn et al. (2019) shows that civic honesty and cooperative behaviour captured in a wallet-return experiment varies considerably across the world. Similarly, beliefs about social trust…
Journal Article
Publish date 6/9/2021
A Time to Plot, a Time to Reap: Coups, Regime Changes and Inequality
A vast economic literature examines the welfare gains and distributional consequences of economic reforms, while much less is generally known on the relationship of inequality and forced regime change…
Journal Article
Publish date 8/30/2021
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
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
Foreign Ownership and Transferring of Gender Norms
In this paper, we study foreign ownership as a vehicle for transferring gender norms across international borders. Specifically, we analyze how the wage differential between men and women in Swedish f…
Working Paper
Publish date 6/29/2022
IFN Researcher
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
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IFN Researcher
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