Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy. Sara Martinson

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1 Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy Sara Martinson 1

2 Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy Independent research institute under the Ministry of Employment since 1997 Independence: questions, methods, results, timing Promote, support and produce scientific evaluations 2

Employment since 1997 Independence: questions, methods,

3 Research areas Effects of labour market policies and activites Effects of education policies Labour market effects of social insurance policies The functioning of the labour market Effect evaluation, q follow-ups/implementation and research surveys 3

insurance policies The functioning of the labour market Effect

4 16 research fields Employment services and labour market programs Discrimination Education and learning Employers and hiring Evaluation and empirical methods Family and work Gender differences Health and rehabilitation Immigration and the labour market Labour force participation, employment and unemployment Networks, norms and contexts The labour market for youth and older workers Unemployment and social insurance Wage formation and wage structure 4

Immigration and the labour market Labour force participation, employment and unemployment Networks, norms and

5 53 Working paper and Reports in 2013 Working papers researchers, aim articles in refereed journals Report series in Swedish. - Revised summarised WP, government commissions, and typically analyst job q follow ups of programs (questionnaires, interviews..) 5

- Revised summarised WP, government commissions, and typically

6 Examples WP & Report Do payroll tax cuts raise youth employment? (2013:27) Independent schools and long-run educational outcomes (2012:19) Long-term effects of class size (2012:5) Gender differences in the sickness absence and the gender division of family responsibilities (2013:9) R: Jobb- och utvecklingsgarantin vilka deltar, vad gör de och vart leder det? 2013:12 6

of class size (2012:5) Gender differences in the sickness absence and the gender division of

7 Quality is important Seminars Internal and external referees Editor in the house proof Publications in refereed journals.. and data is (extremely) important 7

8 Director-General 8 in the administration About 40 researchers/analysts/research officers PhD in economics, statistics, pol sc, (2) PhD students in economics, (9) analysts/research officers (utredare) M Pol Sc, M Soc Sc, M Sc Econ Ca 38 million SEK, grants from research councils 8

pol sc, (2) PhD students in economics, (9) analysts/research officers

9 Work at IFAU? A part of the public administration - new regular jobs must be advertised - you have to apply (we do not keep applications) - research assistant/ internship/ short term help/ summer job Cv, a short letter 9

10 Head of administration and human resources 10

11 What do you do as a research officer (utredare) at IFAU? Is there possibilities to develop within the role? What I do at the present 11

12 One year master s from UU, 2011 Data assistant at IFAU Research officer 12

13 Data assistant Short, fixed-termed contract in one specific project Routine tasks Data collection or data management Little or no analysis 13

14 Data assistant Helped me develop my skills in Stata programming Gained knowledge of the IFAU-database which helped me become a suitable candidate for a research officer 14

15 Research officer Qualitative or quantitative research officer (or both) Interview-, survey-, and/or register-studies Self-initiated projects Projects together with other research officers Working with post-doctoral researchers Over time likely a combination of this 15

projects Projects together with other research officers Working

16 Quantitative research officer (what do I do?) Good programming skills in a statistical software is necessary (usually Stata or SAS) As is at least basic knowledge of statistics and econometrics Probably 75 percent of the time goes to data management (programming) 16

(usually Stata or SAS) As is at least basic knowledge of

17 What I do most of the days 17

18 The rest of the time Administrative tasks e.g. ordering data Attending seminars and project meetings Reading articles and writing for a report 18

19 Projects: Natural science education in pre-schools Involved since my time as data assistant Higher Vocational Education Government commission Projects based on data from the PIAAC-survey on adult skills Almost full time the last six months 19

Government commission Projects based on data from the

20 PIAAC-projects Educational mismatch in the Nordic countries Descriptive report Education, work-experience, and skills Modelling attained education, work-experience, and skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving as a simultaneous equation model (SEM) Working together with a post-doctoral researcher 20

work-experience, and skills in literacy, numeracy, and problem-solving as a

Lecture 3: Intermediate macroeconomics, autumn 2012 Lars Calmfors

Lecture 3: Intermediate macroeconomics, autumn 2012 Lars Calmfors Literature: Mankiw, Chapter 6 Swedish Fiscal Policy 2012, Chapter 5 1 Topics Causes of unemployment Unemployment and labour market flows