Det har gått bra på arbetsmarknaden för de unga flyktingar som kom från forna Jugoslavien. Samtidigt är familjebildningen tydligt segregerad. I viss mån även boendet och arbetsplatsen. Ny forskning idag av Liljeberg, Roman och Olof Åslund @EconomicsUU ifau.se/Press/Pressmed…

Refugee children arriving from former Yugoslavia to Sweden in the early 1990s has a strong educational and economic integration. By contrast, segregation is striking in family formation. New wp: ifau.se/Forskning/Publ… Liljeberg, Roman & Åslund Olof Åslund @EconomicsUU

Regeringen verkar planera att genomföra mycket oroande förslag från Skolinfomationsutredningen. Möjligheterna att analysera och följa skolans utveckling riskerar att försämras rejält. Skriver med kollegor om detta och hoppas att många läser o sprider. svd.se/a/rlaOAe/natio…

Förslagen i en nyligen publicerad utredning riskerar att kraftigt försämra tillförlitligheten och tillgången på skolstatistik. Det skriver fyra nationalekonomer. svd.se/a/rlaOAe/natio…

Intensiv språkutbildning, arbetspraktik samt extra hjälp att söka jobb gav stabil sysselsättning för lågutbildade nyanlända. Insatserna verkar vara självfinansierande. Ny rapport idag hos oss och @Delmigram ifau.se/Press/Meddelan… Ulrika Vikman, Matz Dahlberg, Johan Egebark

Apply to the @EconomicsUU Ph.D. Program! We run a US-style program (~26 2nd-year courses) with generous pay, opportunities to spend time abroad, and lots of supervision. To convince you, let me highlight some of amazing work by our recent graduates. nek.uu.se/news/news-item…

Today's cool young researcher #EconTwitter is Akib Khan @EconomicsUU, who works on human capital + experiments. . .though I normally focus on post-PhD researchers, Akib is already so productive it's hard to believe he's a PhD candidate! sites.google.com/view/akibkhan/…

Ursprungslandets regler påverkar när migranter går i pension. Det visar Axel Cronert och Olof Åslund vid Uppsala universitet och IFAU i ny rapport, där man studerat hur migranter från 128 ursprungsländer väljer att gå i pension i sina 29 nya bosättningsländer. ifau.se/Press/Meddelan…

🚨New IFAU Working Paper with Olof Åslund! Analyzing survey data on immigrants from 128 countries residing across Europe, we find that people are more likely to retire at the exact age that matches a stipulated retirement age in their county of origin. ifau.se/en/Research/Pu…

The 8th #Migration Observatory Annual Conference "Immigrant Integration around the World" will take place next Friday 22nd March in Turin, Collegio Carlo Alberto. 👇 To register for the event, go to: eventbrite.it/e/immigrant-in… Or you can sign up to follow online: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

New paper out! Cities and the Rise of Working Women, with Thor Berger and @erik_prawitz. We show that women who moved to the very largest cities during industrialization saw substantial increases in employment and intergenerational mobility. Thread below with much more!

Professionella nätverk och invandrades ställning på arbetsmarknaden, ny IFAU-rapport idag av Mattias Engdahl, Sébastien Willis och Olof Åslund. ifau.se/Press/Meddelan…

Professional networks and the labour market assimilation of immigrants. New Working paper by Mattias Engdahl, Sébastien Willis and Olof Åslund. ifau.se/en/Press/Abstr…

Come work with us! Uppsala Immigration Lab is looking for qualified full-time RAs. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jo… @EconomicsUU

In a paper recently accepted by Journal of Public Economics, we find that longer asylum processing time decreases earnings and employment among refugees. The impact is due to delayed integration, not to human capital effects of waiting per se. doi.org/10.1016/j.jpub…

(1) The Dep. of Econ. History at Uppsala Uni. (Department of Economic History Uppsala University) is announcing 3 PhD candidate positions for the fall! One is in mine and Kerstin Enflo's project on the effect of spatial childhood cond. on individuals' long-run outcomes You can apply here! 👉 jobb.uu.se/details/?posit…

Recently published paper in the Journal of Public Economics : "Limbo or leverage? Asylum waiting and refugee integration" Vol 234 (June 2024) by Olof Åslund (Olof Åslund ), Mattias Engdahl, & Olof Rosenqvist @EconomicsUU sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New paper: We study how the Russian invasion of Ukraine affected the mental health of over 10,000 Ukrainians who were living in Sweden at the time. Headline result: Prescriptions for mental health drugs immediately increased by 30 percent relative to other migrants.

📢 Join us June 26th at 11h CET for LISER's RSS Seminar. 🗣️ Prof. Olof Åslund (Olof Åslund) of @EconomicsUU presents "Professional Networks and the Labour Market #Assimilation of #Immigrants". #EconTwitter ✉️ [email protected] 🔗 liser.lu/?type=module&i…

Stimulation #HEFUU #UIL #UrbanLab workshop with interesting presentations and good discussions