Uppsala Center for Labor Studies
Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS) is an interdisciplinary center founded in January 2010 through a 10-year-grant from the Swedish Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (Forte). Today, UCLS is funded by Uppsala University, as well as by a number of external research grants.
UCLS brings together researchers from the Department of Economics, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Statistics, and the Department of Law at Uppsala University, as well researchers from the Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU). The Department of Economics hosts the center.
Uppsala Immigration Lab (founded in 2019) is part of UCLS.
Research at UCLS
There are a number of broad research themes within UCLS, for example:
- Unemployment and social security
- Technological change and the labor market
- Labor market institutions and employment relations
- Income, education and inequality
- Immigration, integration and segregation
- Political participation and inequality
- Gender, health and family policies
Members of the Center communicate their research through working papers, peer-reviewed journal articles and policy briefs.
Organization
Director
Professor Peter Fredriksson, Department of Economics
Deputy Director
Professor Lena Hensvik, Department of Economics
UCLS Board of Directors
Professor Joakim Palme, Department of Political Science (Chair)
Professor Karl-Oskar Lindgren, Department of Political Science.
Associate Professor Emma von Essen, Department of Sociology
Associate Professor Annika Sundén, Swedish Fiscal Policy Council.
Henning Ottmer, student representative, Department of Economics.
UCLS affiliates
Researchers
Adrian Adermon
Per Adman
Linuz Aggeborn
Anton Ahlèn
Douglas Almond
Henrik Andersson
Spencer Bastani
Niklas Bengtsson
Evelina Björkegren
Cristina Bratu
Anton Brännlund
Mikael Carlsson
Jonas Cederlöf
Axel Cronert
Matz Dahlberg
Magdalena Dominguez
Per-Anders Edin
Lena Edlund
Niklas Engbom
Mattias Engdahl
Per Engström
Johan Ericsson
Josefina Eriksson
Stefan Eriksson
Anders Forslund
Peter Fredriksson
Andrei Gorshkov
Nils Gottfries
Georg Graetz
Erik Grönqvist
Hans Grönqvist
Lutz Gschwind
Caroline Hall
Olle Hammar
Mikael Hansson
Johan Hartvig Egebark
Christoph Hedtrich
Maria Hemström Hemmingson
Lena Hensvik
Bertil Holmlund
Helena Holmlund
Sirus Håfström Dehdari
Sofia Hernnäs
Caroline Johanson
Per Johansson
Mounir Karadja
Arizo Karimi
Maksym Khomenko
Francis Kramarz
Jonas Larsson Taghizadeh
Lisa Laun
Rafael Lalive
Erica Lindahl
Mikael Lindahl
Karl-Oskar Lindgren
Stefano Lombardi
Martin Lundin
Giulia Mariani
Linna Martén
Rodrigo Martinez Mazza
Erik Mellander
Jakob Molinder
Hanna Mühlrad
Dagmar Müller
Moa Mårtensson
Eva Mörk
Peter Nilsson
Elio Nimier-David
Oskar Nordström Skans
Martin Nybom
Yoko Okuyama
Maria Olsson
Sven Oskarsson
Lillit Ottosson
Joakim Palme
Luka Repetto
Johanna Rickne
Sara Roman
Olof Rosenqvist
Paula Roth
Jan Sauermann
David Seim
Håkan Selin
Anna Sjögren
Alex Solis
Helena Svaleryd
Martin Söderström
Jan Szulkin
Julia Tanndal
Anna Thoresson
Lucas Tilley
Pernilla Tunberger
Gerhard J. van den Berg
Raoul van Maarseveen
Ulrika Vikman
Johan Vikström
Emma von Essen
Daniel Waldenström
Ingeborg Waernbaum
Karl Walentin
Alexander Willén
Sébastien Willis
Yaroslav Yakymovych
Olof Åslund
Erik Öberg
Björn Öckert
Marcus Österman
PhD students
Jonathan Andersson
Nora Anter
Zeynep Atabay
Malin Backman
Jimena Castro
Simon Ek
Qinya Feng
Erika Forsberg
Adam Gill
Erik Grahn
Ricard Grebol
Dogan Gülümser
Erik Hellberg
Simon Helperin
Edvin Hertegård
Zariab Hossain
Martin Häggkvist
Henrik Hällerfors
Karin Kristensson
Fredrik Larsson
Tianze Liu
Henning Ottmer
Qingyan Peng
Ola Pettersson
Oskar Pettersson
Tram Pham
Lovisa Rambjer
Erik Scheller
Rinni Sharma
William Skoglund
Anton Sundberg
Elin Sundberg
Olle Törnquist
Josefin Videnord
Xuemeng Wang
Founding Fellows
Matz Dahlberg, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Per-Anders Edin, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Peter Fredriksson, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Bertil Holmlund, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Per Johansson, Department of Statistics, Uppsala University
Mikael Lindahl, Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
Jonas Malmberg, The Swedish Labour Court (Arbetsdomstolen)
Sofia Sandgren Massih, Swedish National Audit Office
Eva Mörk, Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Joakim Palme, Department of Government, Uppsala University
Activities
Annual events at the Center include:
- UCLS Spring Meeting where affiliates from the Uppsala environment present and discuss the work carried out at the Center.
- UCLS Annual Conference, where all affiliates present and discuss their research.
- UCLS PhD Workshop, where PhD students associated with the Center meet and discuss their work across disciplines.
- UCLS Industrial Relations Workshop, which brings together researchers and policy makers from across Sweden to discuss new research on Swedish labor market institutions.
- UCLS Workshop on Inequalities in Working Life, bringing together researchers working broadly on labor market inequality.
- UCLS Workshop on Political Inequality, which brings together researchers working on the sources, effects and potential remedies of inequality in political participation and representation.
UCLS organizes a range of activities focused on interactions with the international research community, such as sponsoring visits by seminar speakers and other guests from the affiliated institutions. The Center also reaches out to a broad non-academic audience through conferences on important and policy-relevant issues.
Contact details
Director: Peter Fredriksson
Administrative matters: Ulrika Öjdeby