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Simon Ek

Ph.D. student

Simon Ek has previously worked as both research assistant at the institute and as secretary for the Swedish Labour Policy Council (Arbetsmarknadsekonomiska rådet), which was located at the institute. Since Autumn 2018, he has been enrolled in the PhD programme in Economics at Uppsala University. Simon is interested in labor economics and the economics of education in general, and wage formation in particular.

Graduate Student

Contact

Simon Ek

Uppsala University

simon.ek@ifn.se

Research interests: Econometrics, Education, Labor economics

Current writings

21 April 2023

Structural Change, Match Quality, and Integration in the Labor Market

Dissertation

by Simon Ek

27 March 2023

Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Job Opportunities for Refugees: An Experimental Study

Journal Article

by Simon Ek, Mats Hammarstedt, Per Skedinger

11 August 2021

Working Paper No. 1398

Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Refugee Integration: An Experimental Study

Working Paper

by Simon Ek, Mats Hammarstedt, Per Skedinger

Published at IFN

Journal Articles

27 March 2023 Ek, Simon, Mats Hammarstedt and Per Skedinger (forthcoming). “Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Job Opportunities for Refugees: An Experimental Study”. Scandinavian Journal of Economics.

01 May 2019 Ek, Simon and Magnus Henrekson (2019). “The Geography and Concentration of Authorship in the Top Five: Implications for European Economics”. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 66(2), 215–245. doi.org/10.1111/sjpe.12208

Books

01 January 2020 Ek, Simon, Mats Hammarstedt and Per Skedinger (2020). Enkla jobb och kunskaper i svenska – nycklar till integration?. Stockholm: SNS Förlag.

01 January 2019 Calmfors, Lars, Simon Ek, Ann-Sofie Kolm and Per Skedinger (2019). Kollektivavtal och lönebildning i en ny tid. Stockholm: Dialogos Förlag.

01 January 2018 Calmfors, Lars, Simon Ek, Ann-Sofie Kolm, Tuomas Pekkarinen and Per Skedinger (2018). Arbetsmarknadsekonomisk rapport – Olika vägar till jobb. Stockholm: Arbetsmarknadsekonomiska rådet.

01 January 2018 Calmfors, Lars, Simon Ek, Ann-Sofie Kolm, Toumas Pekkarinen and Per Skedinger (2018). Arbetsmarknadsekonomisk rapport – Hur fungerar kollektivavtalen?. Stockholm: Arbetsmarknadsekonomiska rådet.

01 January 2018 Calmfors, Lars et al. (2018). Hur ska fler komma in på arbetsmarknaden?. Stockholm: Dialogos Förlag.

Book Chapters

01 January 2019 Ek, Simon and Per Skedinger (2019). “Wage Policies and the Integration of Immigrants”. In Lars Calmfors and Nora Sánchez Gassen (Eds.), Integrating Immigrants into the Nordic Labour Markets (187–209). Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers.

Working Papers

11 August 2021 Ek, Simon, Mats Hammarstedt and Per Skedinger (2021). “Low-Skilled Jobs, Language Proficiency and Refugee Integration: An Experimental Study”. IFN Working Paper No. 1398. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

10 October 2018 Ek, Simon and Magnus Henrekson (2018). “The Geography and Concentration of Authorship in the Top Five: Implications for European Economics”. IFN Working Paper No. 1240. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

Articles in Swedish

01 January 2019 Ek, Simon and Magnus Henrekson (2019). “Vem publicerar i topp fem och vad betyder det för europeisk nationalekonomi?”. Ekonomisk Debatt 47(5), 27–39.

01 January 2018 Ek, Simon (2018). “Vart leder lågkvalificerade jobb?”. Ekonomisk Debatt 46(5), 16–28.

01 January 2018 Ek, Simon and Magnus Henrekson (2018). “Citeringar – att mäta och att mäta rätt”. Ekonomisk Debatt 46(1), 33–46.

Op-Eds

04 October 2020 Ek, Simon, Mats Hammarstedt and Per Skedinger (2020). “Slutreplik: Jobbskapande i offentlig sektor fungerar sämst”. Dagens Nyheter, October 4.

03 October 2020 Ek, Simon, Mats Hammarstedt and Per Skedinger (2020). “Inte enkelt att få enkla jobb för flyktinginvandrare”. Dagens Nyheter, October 3.

28 May 2018 Calmfors, Lars, Simon Ek, Ann-Sofie Kolm, Tuomas Pekkarinen and Per Skedinger (2018). “Replik: Arbetsmarknadsekonomiska rådets analys av minimilönernas sysselsättningseffekter är välgrundad”. Ekonomistas, May 28.

Reports

01 January 2017 Ek, Simon and Roger Svensson (2017). “Immateriella tillgångar, innovationer och ekonomisk tillväxt/välstånd på makronivå”. In Samband mellan immateriella tillgångar, innovation och ekonomisk tillväxt – Två kunskapsöversikter (53–119). Stockholm: Vinnova.

Dissertations

21 April 2023 Ek, Simon (2023). Structural Change, Match Quality, and Integration in the Labor Market. Doctoral Dissertation. Department of Economics, Uppsala University.

Policy Papers (discontinued)

29 May 2019 Ek, Simon and Per Skedinger (2019). “Wage Policies and the Integration of Immigrants”. IFN Policy Paper No. 86. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).

21 February 2018 Ek, Simon and Magnus Henrekson (2018). “Citeringar – en jämförelse av tre olika mått”. IFN Policy Paper No. 81. Stockholm: Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN).