Labour market and employment experts
Pensions, income taxes, and working conditions – researchers at the Stockholm School of Economics examine how labour market policies shape our lives. Below you'll find expert areas and contact details.
Patrick Agte
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise:
- How caste norms and social identity shape women’s work opportunities in India
Email: Patrick.Agte@hhs.se
Phone: +46 76 742 53 90
Languages: English, German
Lin Lerpold
Associate Professor, Department of Marketing and Strategy; Director, SIR Center for Sustainability Research (CSR); Vice Director, Sustainable Finance Lab; Director, Center for Migration and Integration
Areas of expertise:
- Forced labour and modern slavery
- How and why precarious working conditions are growing and being perpetuated through business models in diverse risk sectors in high income nations such as Sweden and the EU
- How our regulatory environment needs to be adapted to new realities to hinder the exploitation of the most vulnerable workers in the labour market
Email: lin.lerpold@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)72 576 99 42
Languages: English, Swedish
Celine Harion Zipfel
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics; Affiliated Researcher, House of Sustainable Society
Areas of expertise:
- Development, labor and family economics
- Fertility and occupational choices
- Gender roles in households and their impact on gender gaps in the labor market
Email: Celine.Zipfel@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)70 039 94 62
Languages: English, French
Johanna Wallenius
Professor, Department of Economics
Areas of expertise:
- Impact of pension reforms on retirement age and workforce participation, retirement/working behavior in aging populations
- The role of tax policy in shaping workforce participation; how tax policies can lead to differences in work hours and employment rates
- How family policies, such as childcare subsidies, affect female employment, earnings and the gender wage gap
Email: johanna.wallenius@hhs.se
Languages: English, Finnish