Areas of interest:
Labour Economics, especially labour market oriented causes and effects of geographic mobility.

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Working Papers:
Internal Migration of Natives and Immigrants following Job Displacement
(forthcoming in Regional Studies)
Human capital migration theory presents us with two conflicting hypotheses on immigrant mobility. One is based on immigrants having less location specific human capital, reducing the costs of migration and increasing the probability of migration. The other is based on ethnicity, immigrants living in ethnic enclaves will have higher costs to leaving the enclave, reducing the probability of migration. This paper disentangles and finds support for both hypotheses using high-quality data on a wide range of human capital, family, and labour market variables, as well as previous migration of all individuals involuntarily displaced from Swedish establishments in 1987 and 1988.
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Does Migration Pay? Earnings Effects from Geographic Mobility following Job Displacement
Displaced workers are followed for ten years in order to analyse the earnings effects from internal migration. We utilise a large dataset containing all workers in Sweden who were displaced during 1987 or 1988. Effects from migration are investigated controlling for human capital, family, and labour market characteristics. Internal migration has positive earnings effects for men, while the consequences for women are in general negative or non-existent. Positive effects for immigrant men occur several years after migration, implying that long term effects are important to migrants and showing the importance of using a long observation period in migration studies.
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They seek it here, they seek it there, they seek it everywhere. But where is employment found?
This paper uses a unique possibility to link unemployed individuals’ stated willingness to move with administrative data, giving us the possibility to analyse the effects of mobility on labour market outcome. Furthermore, we can do this not only for those who actually move, but also for non-movers. I find that those who extend their search area in job search geographically do have a higher probability of escaping unemployment. However, this positive effect is not only present for jobs outside the local labour market, as would be expected, but the greatest effect is found on the local labour market. This indicates positive selection; i.e. it is not so much the increased geographic scope per se that increases the likelihood of escaping unemployment, but mainly differences in unobservable characteristics between those who choose to use a larger search area and those who do not.
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Teaching - Fall 2009:

University of Gothenburg
Introductory level: Microeconomics
Introductory level: Macroeconomics
Introductory level: Applied Economics and Trade

Halmstad University
Introductory level: Microeconomic Theory for the IRE-programme
Introductory level: Applied Microeconomics for the IRE-programme