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Peter Fredriksson

Research Fellow

Uppsala University

peter.fredriksson@nek.uu.se

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economics of immigration equilibrium search unemployment labor economics labor market policy labor mobility

Peter Fredriksson is Professor at the Department of Economics, Uppsala University. He is the director of the Uppsala Center for Labor Studies, and a research fellow of IZA and CESifo. Peter has been the Director-General of the Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU) and a Professor at the Department of Economics, Stockholm University. His main area of research is labor economics and he has, inter alia, worked on issues concerning immigration, education, labor mobility, and the design of unemployment insurance. He has published in journals like Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Economic Review, Economic Journal, Journal of Business & Economics Statistics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Public Economics, and Journal of Human Resources.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in December 2003.

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IZA Discussion Paper No. 16901

Parental and School Responses to Student Performance: Evidence from School Entry Rules

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert, Lucas Tilley

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14056

School Starting Age, Maternal Age at Birth, and Child Outcomes

Peter Fredriksson, Kristiina Huttunen, Björn Öckert

published in: Journal of Health Economics, 2022, 84, 102637

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10914

The Rising Return to Non-Cognitive Skill

Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, Martin Nybom, Björn Öckert

published in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2022, 14 (2), 78-100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9585

Mismatch of Talent: Evidence on Match Quality, Entry Wages, and Job Mobility

Peter Fredriksson, Lena Hensvik, Oskar Nordström Skans

published in: American Economic Review, 2018, 108 (11), 3303-3338.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8019

Inside the Black Box of Class Size: Mechanisms, Behavioral Responses, and Social Background

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert, Hessel Oosterbeek

published as 'Parental Responses to Public Investments in Children: Evidence from a Maximum Class Size Rule' in: Journal of Human Resources, 2016, 51(4), 832-868.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5879

Long-Term Effects of Class Size

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert, Hessel Oosterbeek

published in: Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2013, 128 (1), 249-285

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4521

Peers, Neighborhoods and Immigrant Student Achievement: Evidence from a Placement Policy

Olof Aslund, Per-Anders Edin, Peter Fredriksson, Hans Grönqvist

published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2011, 3 (2), 67-95

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3570

Do Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? New Evidence on an Old Question

Peter Fredriksson, Martin Söderström

published as 'The Equilibrium Impact of Unemployment Insurance on Unemployment: Evidence from a Non-linear Policy Rule' in: Journal of Public Economics, 2020, 187, 104199

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1659

Is Early Learning Really More Productive? The Effect of School Starting Age on School and Labor Market Performance

Peter Fredriksson, Björn Öckert

published as: 'Life-cycle Effects of Age at School Start' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124, 977-1004

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1536

Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Olof Aslund, Peter Fredriksson

published as: 'Peer Effects in Welfare Dependence: Quasi-experimental Evidence" in: Journal of Human Resources, 2009, 44(3), 799–825

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