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