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; Affiliated Researcher, House of Sustainable Society

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