Jonas Lagerström

Title

PhD in Economics, researcher

Areas of interest

Empirical labor economics

Current research projects

• The Importance of Names: New Evidence on Ethnic Discrimination
• Unemployed Workers' Wage Demands and Labour Market Outcomes
• Does experience rating of sick insurance increase the selection of workers?
• Childhood conditions and labor market outcomes

Recent research papers

Eriksson, S., Lagerström, J. " Diskriminering i anställningsprocessen" , Ekonomisk debatt, 37(1), 54-64.

Eriksson, S., Lagerström, J. " The Labor Market Consequences of Gender Differences in Job Search, Working Paper 2008:10, Department of Economics, Uppsala University.

Eriksson, S., Lagerström, J., " Competition between Employed and Unemployed Job Applicants: Swedish Evidence", Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 108, 373-396

Eriksson, S., Lagerström, J. " Diskriminering i Anställningsprocessen: Resultat från en Internet-baserad sökkanal, Rapport 2007:17, Institutet för arbetsmarknadspolitisk utvärdering, Uppsala

Eriksson, S., Lagerström, J. " Väljer företag bort arbetslösa jobbsökande?", Ekonomisk debatt, 35(5), 31-41.

Eriksson, S., Lagerström, J. " Detecting Discrimination in the Hiring Process: Evidence from an Internet-based Search Channel", Working Paper 2007:29, Department of Economics, Uppsala University

Lagerström, J. " Discrimination, Sickness Absence, and Labor Market Policy", Economic Studies 96, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2006 (Ph.D. thesis)

Edin, P-A, Lagerström, J. " Blind dates: quasi-experimental evidence on discrimination", Working paper 2006:4, The Institute for labour market policy evaluation, IFAU

Referee for journals

The Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Contact information

Department of Economics and Statistics
Åbo Akademi University
20500 Turku, Finland

Visiting address: Akademigatan 1 (Chemicum), room 502
Phone: +358 (0) 2 215 35 27
E-mail: Jonas.Lagerstrom@abo.fi