Experts on labour market, employment and unemployment
Pensions, income taxes, and working conditions—researchers at the ºÚÁÏÍø examine how labour market policies shape our lives. Below you'll find expert areas and contact details.
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Lin Lerpold, associate professor at the Department of Marketing and Strategy; Director of the SIR Center for Sustainability Research (CSR); Vice Director of the Sustainable Finance Lab; Director of the Center for Migration and Integration
Area of expertise:
- Forced labour and modern slavery.
- How and why precarious working conditions are growing and being perpetuated through business models in diverse risk sectors in high income nations such as Sweden and the EU.
- How our regulatory environment needs to be adapted to new realities to hinder the exploitation of the most vulnerable workers in the labour market.
Email: lin.lerpold@hhs.se
Phone: +46 (0)72 576 99 42
Languages: English, Swedish
Johanna Wallenius, professor at the Department of Economics
Area of expertise:
- Impact of pension reforms on retirement age and workforce participation, retirement/working behavior in aging populations.
- The role of tax policy in shaping workforce participation; how tax policies can lead to differences in work hours and employment rates.
- How family policies, such as childcare subsidies, affect female employment, earnings and the gender wage gap.
Email: johanna.wallenius@hhs.se
Languages: English, Finnish