Publications
Individualized benefits and access to active labor market programs boost refugee women’s economic integration (with Cristina Bratu and Linna Martén), Accepted, Review of Economics and Statistics. Also available as SOFI Working Paper 3/2023.
Working papers
Bilingual Caseworkers and Workplace Training: A Pathway to Integration? (with Ulrika Vikman)
We study an active labor market program aimed at immigrants with very limited language skills. The program consists of a three-month on-the-job training program in a regular workplace, facilitated by bilingual caseworkers speaking the participant’s native language. The aim of the program is to improve participants’ language skills and to provide labor market experience. We apply dynamic inverse probability weighting to account for dynamic selection into the program. After an initial lock-in effect, we find that the program leads to sizable increases in employment throughout the three-year follow-up period. These effects are explained by both subsidized and regular employment, and are mainly driven by women.
Working paper: IFAU Working paper 2025. Media coverage: Radio Sweden
To work or not to work? The effects of temporary public employment on future employment and benefits (with Eva Mörk and Ulrika Vikman), submitted
We evaluate a temporary public sector employment program targeted at individuals with a weak labor market attachment. We show that the program is successful in terms of increasing employment and reducing social assistance. The positive employment effects are driven by individuals placed at regular workplaces. For participants with temporary employments at a non-regular workplace, we instead find negative employment effects. The decrease in social assistance is partially countered by an increase in the share receiving unemployment insurance benefits, indicating that municipalities are able to shift costs from the local to the central budget. We further find that cost-effectiveness, as measured by the marginal value of public funds, varies depending on which level of government is considered.
Working paper: IZA Discussion Paper No. 15071 (2022); IFAU Working Paper 2021:21. Media coverage: Radio Sweden
Work in progress
Temporary or Permanent Residence permits: Effects of Refugees' Integration Outcomes (with Cristina Bratu and Linna Martén)
Refugee Integration Programs: household dynamics and intergenerational spillover effects (with Cristina Bratu and Linna Martén)
Social assistance generosity and labor market outcomes
Other writing
Reform av introduktionsprogram ökade flyktingkvinnors sysselsättning (with Cristina Bratu and Linna Martén), Ekonomisk debatt, 2023 51(2)