Publications
Individualized benefits and access to active labor market programs boost refugee women’s economic integration (with Cristina Bratu and Linna Martén), Forthcoming, Review of Economics and Statistics. Also available as SOFI Working Paper 3/2023.
Employment Effects and Fiscal Spillovers of a Public Sector Employment Program (with Eva Mörk and Ulrika Vikman), Forthcoming, Labour Economics. Also available as: SOFI Working Papers in Labour Economics 10/2026. Media coverage: Radio Sweden
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
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)