Research project An equal labor market in theory and practice
This research program offers new and policy-relevant knowledge about labor market inclusion. The focus is on four demographic groups with particularly weak positions on the Swedish labor market: women, employees close to retirement age, people with an immigrant background, and transgender individuals.
Our program’s two main strengths are a strong focus on policy evaluation and the collaboration with firms in the private sector. We will use Swedish administrative data to evaluate impacts on labor market inclusion from immigration and asylum policy, tax policy, labor law, and family law. Together with firms in the private sector, we implement field experiments to evaluate methods of designing job advertisements and job matching
platforms to achieve more inclusive recruitment. Field experiments are also used to evaluate public policies of role-model interventions in school and information campaigns to overcome information hurdles. The experimental designs allow us to identify the causal effect of each of these factors, holding everything else constant. All these analyses are used to test and inform new theories, with the goal of building comprehensive
policy advice for both private and public actors.
Project members
Project managers
Johanna Rickne
Professor
Members
Karin Hederos
Researcher
Anna Sandberg Trolle-Lindgren
Researcher
Ylva Moberg
Researcher
Linna Marten
Researcher
Wenli Li
Senior Economic Advisor and Economist
Jenny Säve-Söderbergh
Assistant professor
