Research group Labour Economics (AME)
Labour economics is a very broad research field. In addition to research on labour market outcomes, such as wages and employment, the AME unit studies both elementary and higher education, health, taxes and income transfers, politics, crime and punishment, and gender equality.
At SOFI, labour economics research is primarily empirically oriented, but we also have theoretically oriented research.
Examples of research questions that have been studied recently are how independent schools affect academic success, how access to free lunch at school affects long-term labour market outcomes, how imprisonment affects health, and how promotion to a top job affects the likelihood of divorce differently for men and women.
Although the research includes very many areas and issues, it is often characterized by some common features. A large part of the research studies differences in financial outcomes or in education, within and between groups. Furthermore, much of the research also aims to comment on which policies can be recommended. The strong connection to politics is also reflected in the fact that many AME researchers participate in public investigations and in current public debate.
Researchers at the AME unit use a wide range of data sources for their research. In addition to data derived from administrative registers, data collected in part through surveys (often in combination with register data) are used. Some researchers also produce their own data in terms of field and laboratory experiments.
An important part of AME's activities consists of regular seminars where invited external researchers or our own employees present their research.
Labour economics is a broad research field that is closely related to several other social sciences. Several of the researchers within AME have collaborations with researchers in other fields of science such as sociology and political science.
Group members
Group managers
Markus Jäntti
Professor
Members
Christine Alamaa
PhD student
Abrar Bawati
Forskningsassistent
Anders Björklund
Professor emeritus
Anne Boschini
Professor
Iman Dadgar
Researcher
Pierre Deschamps
Assistant professor
Karin Margret Edmark
Senior lecturer
Marie-Pascale Grimon
Assistant professor
Karin Hederos
Researcher
Martin Hällsten
Professor of Sociology
Markus Jäntti
Professor
Orsa Kekezi
Researcher
Leopoldo Luis Lazcano Maturana
Doktorand
Louis-Pierre Lepage
Assistant professor
Matthew Lindquist
Professor
Erik Lindqvist
Professor
Linna Marten
Researcher
Meng Meng
PhD student
José Montalban Castilla
Assistant professor
Chloé Nibourel
Postdoktor
Susan Niknami
Researcher
Lillit Ottosson
Researcher
Tomas Reivinger
Research assistant
Johanna Rickne
Professor
Dan-Olof Rooth
Professor
Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren
Researcher
Anders Stenberg
Professor
Alessandro Toppeta
Assistant Professor
Ann-Charlotte Ståhlberg
Professor emeritus
Marianne Sundström
Professor emeritus
Jenny Säve-Söderbergh
Assistant professor
Lucas Tilley
Researcher
Giulia Vattuone
Assistant Professor
Eskil Wadensjö
Professor emeritus
