Oskar Nordström Skans
Labor Economist at Uppsala University. In my spare time, I help manage a mid-sized museum. Here for the economics, not the politics. sites.google.com/site/oskarskans/home
- Not every seminar invitation includes infotmation on optimal offpist ski conditions -- but when they do, I clear my schedule! "Off course you could come after ski season, but why would you want to do that?" Wonderful!
- Excited to start as co-editor at the ILR-Review. Hope to see your best work on wages, employment, inequality,... or any other "core" labor market topic. And - unsurprising for those of you who heard my favorite rant - I will never desk reject without a motivation... journals.sagepub.com/home/ilr
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- Following this on TV, the peak of the necessary destruction of Kiruna town center where I grew up. Soon it will be a park there, until cracks from the mine become too severe even for that. Remarkable, as everything about this town in the far north, but also pretty sad... www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Extremely sad to learn that former @eale-office.bsky.social president Bertil Holmlund has passed away. Bertil was the founder of the strong Uppsala labor environment. Working with him was a true learning experience. Kind, funny, smart, and unbelievably efficient. He will be deeply missed.
- Bertil was extremely broad, and a true mentor to all of us. His theoretical and empirical contributions covered, e.g., optimal unemployment insurance, taxation, wage setting, and education. He chaired the Nobel Prize committee and was an extremely respected authority in Nordic policy circles.
- One of the amazing things Bertil did was to tell you the date he could review a paper a month in advance, and if you would send him the paper on that day, you had an incredibly insightful report the day after. It should be possible for al of us, but somehow only he could do it.
- The picture I posted is from 2015 when he just formally retired because of health issues and we celebrated my inauguration as his successor. Obviously, I never came close to replacing him, but I really felt his support and the memory of the joint celebration still means a lot to me.
- PhD position in Labor Economics on AI, Structural change & the Future of Work. A very exciting research group: Uppsala's excellent Labor Econ Environment--integrated with other schools, fields, practitioners, and leading international scholars. Apply now--call is short! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
- Also consider applying to the twin position within the same cluster, placed at Örebro University www.oru.se/english/care...
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- 🚨 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!
- Cluster combines our amazing team at Uppsala Econ with sociologists, economists, and business studies people at Mälardalen, Örebro and the Royal institute of technology (KTH). My co-leaders are Moa Bursell (MDU) and Magnus Lodefalk (Örebro). Money is for juniors and senior guest researchers.
- We will start by recruiting PhD students in Econ and Sociology, and move to Post Docs thereafter, probably starting 2026. More News to come!
- Looking forward to the work -- learned so much allready at the application stage from fantastic co-leaders and the other great team members! So, help us find talented young scientists to come work with us!
- Dislike that it somehow has become industry standard to not provide a motivation when desk rejecting. I never did this as an editor. It takes time to read and assess, but not to provide a motivation. It is a good lazy test - if you properly assessed the paper, you can write a motivation in 2 minutes
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- Reposted by Oskar Nordström SkansOm man tar USTRs formel för tullar på allvar (vilket man inte borde), och använder de parametrar som litteraturen de citerar kommer fram till, så borde USAs tullar bara vara en fjärdedel så höga. Som exempelvis Brent Neiman, en av författarna till studien som citeras, påpekat. (1/5)
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- Reposted by Oskar Nordström SkansScandinavian employees work more from home. Likely causes are high trust and advanced technology. Increases in remote work affect the spatial distribution of local service jobs, from Adam Gill, Lena E. Hensvik, and Oskar Nordström Skans nber.org/papers/w33581
- Really cool article in the New York Times on our family home - and such a fun film with one of our brilliant young family guides www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/t...
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- New NBER WP (forthcoming book chapter) with @adam-gill.bsky.social and Lena Hensvik on the very high rates of work-from-home in all Nordic countries -- already before the pandemic. Some likely causes, and some consequences for service workers www.nber.org/papers/w33581
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- Submit your "core" labor economics papers (wages, employment..) to this great workshop I co-organize for the third time - join with, e.g., Cardoso, Machin, Mogstad and Spitz-Oener for some serious Labor Economics in Helsinki in August!
- If you are in Chicago, go visit this marvelous exhibition, now open at the Swedish American Museum, showing the art of perfect imperfection by my great-great-grandmother rightsandbrands.com/news/karin-l...
- Apply to the Uppsala Econ PhD program--deadline Feb 1st. Any field goes, but if you have any interest in Labor Economics, we offer one of Europe's very best research environments. Great people, unique data, and an exciting integration between applied micro and macro! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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- Lots of fun to write this paper with brilliant student @adam-gill.bsky.social Managers who *trust* other people offer WFH to their workers, and do it themselves.
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- Reposted by Oskar Nordström SkansHi #EconSky! I’m a PhD Candidate in Economics at Uppsala University. My #EconJMP investigates how firms’ previous employment experience in a particular occupation affects hiring standards, wages, and post-hiring outcomes. Find out more about my research here: sites.google.com/view/dogangu...
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