Rojan KarakayaResearch assistant

About me

I work as a research assistant for a project headed by Magnus Bygren investigating mechanisms behind hiring discrimination in the Swedish labor market.

My educational background is in economics, statistics, sociology, French, mathematics and physics. I have previously worked as a tax revenue forecaster for the Swedish National Financial Management Authority. I currently study for a masters degree in Statistics at Linköping University. 

My interests include machine learning and natural language processing.

Research projects

Ongoing

Completed

Inclusion and exclusion at the labor market – an intersectional field experiment

The project’s aim is to use an intersectional approach to investigate the role of employer hiring discrimination in the reproduction of ethnic by gender segregation and inequality in the labor market.