Per Skedinger

Per Skedinger received his Ph.D. in Economics from Uppsala University. He was previously employed at the Trade Union Institute for Economic Research (FIEF) and a member of the Swedish Labour Policy Council (AER). He is a former editor of the journal Ekonomisk Debatt and a former member of the expert group on minimum wages in the EU set up by the ILO and the EU Commission. During 2019-2020 he served as an expert in the government Inquiry on the Employment Protection Act. Per was an adjunct professor of economics at Linnaeus University in Växjö from 2014 to 2025.

As a researcher at IFN, Per Skedinger conducted research in the fields of labor markets, entrepreneurship, health economics, integration, migration, and minimum wages. A central theme in his research is the analysis of how institutions and regulatory frameworks affect employment and entrepreneurship, particularly for groups at the margins of the labor market. Per was active as a researcher at IFN during the period from 1993 to 2025.