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Olof Åslund

@olofaslund.bsky.social

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Uppsala University, Department of Economics. Uppsala Immigration Lab.

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Oskar Nordström Skans @oskarnskans.bsky.social · May 7

🚨 PhD and Post Doc positions incoming 🚨 Received 3 million Euros from WASP-HS for an interdisciplinary (Econ, Sociology, Business) research cluster on AI, Structural Change and the Future of Work. PhD call coming very soon - start Jan 2026, fully funded in an amazing research team w fantastic data!

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Olof Åslund @olofaslund.bsky.social · Apr 10

Come work on migration, integration, and urban issues! Great opportunity in active and friendly research environment.
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1–3 Research Assistants for the Uppsala Immigration Lab and Urban Lab

The Department of Economics is one of the largest departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences with approximately 100 employees from a dozen countries. Each year about 1,000 students participate

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NBER @nber.org · Mar 16

Daughters of immigrants are more upwardly mobile than daughters of locals in most destinations. Sons of immigrants are only more upwardly mobile outside of continental Europe, from Boustan, Fjællegaard Jensen, Abramitzky, Jácome, et al https://www.nber.org/papers/w33558

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Mathias Fjællegaard Jensen @fjaellegaard.bsky.social · Feb 21

1/ 🚨 New paper! 🚨
How do the economic trajectories of children of immigrants vary across 15 high-income countries? We study intergenerational mobility of immigrants, using individual-level linked parent-child data across Europe, North America, and beyond. 🧵👇 #EconSky

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Olof Åslund @olofaslund.bsky.social · Jan 24

I think the www.europeansocialsurvey.org and share-eric.eu can be made available

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mkaradja.bsky.social @mkaradja.bsky.social · Nov 28

We are organizing the 3rd edition of our Workshop in Economic History organized in beautiful Uppsala on May 22-23, 2025 with a keynote by
Elias Papaioannou! Call for papers with submission link: tinyurl.com/49tah8zd

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Joël Machado @joelmachado.eu · Jan 8

With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Simone Bertoli, we are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the

3rd edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration

on 23-24 June 2025 @CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Submit until 23 February 2025 on economig2025.sciencesconf.org

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Sébastien Willis @sebastienwillis.bsky.social · Apr 23

Are you interested in research on migration and economics? Come work with us! We are looking to hire up to three RAs for one year, starting in August 2024, based in Uppsala. Applications close May 7.

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Research Assistants to Uppsala Immigration Lab

The Department of Economics is one of the largest departments within the Faculty of Social Sciences with approximately 100 employees from a dozen countries. Each year about 1,000 students participate

uu.varbi.com

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Joël Machado @joelmachado.eu · Dec 18

With Jérôme Valette, we are thrilled to announce the

Call for Papers
for the 2nd Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on 25-26 June 2024, LISER, Luxembourg.

Keynotes: @gathmannch.bsky.social, @olofaslund.bsky.social & H. Rapoport

Deadline 25 February 2024 economig2024.sciencesconf.org

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