January 2021 Curriculum Vitae
Magnus Carlsson Personal details:
Citizenship: Sweden Residency: Sweden
Born: September 8, 1975 Civil Status: Married, 3 children Languages: Swedish and English
Work address and contact information:
Department of Economics and Statistics Tel. +46 480 497 187
Linnaeus University Fax +46 480 497 110
391 82 Kalmar magnus.carlsson@lnu.se
Sweden
Research interests:
Discrimination, labor economics, applied microeconomics.
Academic degrees and qualifications:
Associate Professor in Economics, Linnaeus University, 2015-04-01 (Docent i nationalekonomi, 2015-04-01)
Ph.D. in Economics, Linnaeus University, 2010.
Master in Economics, Uppsala University, 2003.
Master in Computer Science, Uppsala University, 2000.
Employment history and affiliations:
Senior Lecturer (80 % teaching and 20 % research in this position), Department of Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2010 –.
Visiting graduate student, University College London, UK, spring 2009.
Visiting graduate student, University College London, UK, spring 2008.
Lecturer, Baltic Business School, Kalmar University, Sweden, 2007-2009 PhD student, Department of Economics, Växjö University, Sweden, 2005-2009 Research ass., Baltic Business School, Kalmar University, Sweden, 2004-2006 Software developer, Cloop Systems AB, Uppsala, Sweden, 2000-2001
Complete list of publications Peer reviewed articles
1. Strinić, A., Carlsson, M., and Agerström, J. (2020). Occupational stereotypes:
Professionals´ Warmth and Competence perceptions of occupations. Personnel Review.doi.org/10.1007/s10869-020-09713-4
2. Agerström, J., Carlsson, M., Bremer, A., Herlitz, J., Israelsson, J., Årestedt, K. (2020) Discriminatory cardiac arrest care? Patients with low socioeconomic status receive delayed cardiopulmonary resuscitation and are less likely to survive an in-hospital cardiac arrest. The European Heart Journal. doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaa954.
3. Carlsson, M., Finseraas, H., Midtbøen, A. H., and Rafnsdóttir, G. L. (2020). Gender Bias in Academic Recruitment? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the Nordic Region. European Sociological Review. doi.org/10.1093/esr/jcaa050.
4. Strinić, A., Carlsson, M., and Agerström, J. (2020). Multiple-group membership:
warmth and competence perceptions in the workplace. Journal of Business and Psychology, 1-18.
5. Carlsson, M., Fumarco, L., and Gibbs, B. G. (2020). Erasmus Exchange Program–A Matter of (Relatively) Older Students. The BE Journal of Economic Analysis &
Policy. Accepted
6. Carlsson, M. and Eriksson, S. (2019). In-group gender bias in hiring: Real-world evidence. Economics Letters, 185, 108686.
7. Carlsson, M. and Eriksson, S. (2019). Age Discrimination in Hiring Decisions:
Evidence from a Field Experiment in the Labor Market, Labour Economics, 59: 173- 183.
8. Carlsson, M., Reshid, A., and Rooth, D. O. (2018). Neighborhood signaling effects, commuting time, and employment – Evidence from a field experiment. International Journal of Manpower, 39: 534-549.
9. Carlsson, M. Fumarco, L., and Rooth D-O. (2018). Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring, Labor Market Tightness and the Business Cycle - Evidence from Field Experiments.
Applied Economics, 50: 2652-2663.
10. Carlsson, M., Eriksson, S. and Rooth, D.-O. (2018). Job Search Methods and Wages:
Are Natives and Immigrants Different? The Manchester School, 86: 219-247.
11. Carlsson, M. and Eriksson, S. (2017). Do attitudes expressed in surveys predict ethnic discrimination? Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(10): 1739-1757.
12. Carlsson, M. and Rooth, D. (2016). Employer Attitudes, the Marginal Employer, and the Ethnic Wage Gap. Industrial and Labor Relations Review (ILRR), 104: 1014-1039.
13. Carlsson, M., Dahl, G., Öckert, B., and Rooth, D. (2015). The Effect of Schooling on Cognitive Skills. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 97(3): 533–547.
14. Carlsson, M. and Eriksson, S. (2015). Ethnic Discrimination in the London Market for Shared Housing. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 41(8): 1276-130.
15. Carlsson, M. and Eriksson, S. (2014). Discrimination in the Rental Market for Apartments. Journal of Housing Economics. 23: 41-54.
16. Carlsson, R., Agerström, J., Björklund, F., Carlsson, M. and Rooth, D. (2014) Testing for Backlash in Hiring: A Field Experiment on Agency, Communion, and Gender.
Journal of Personnel Psychology, 13(4): 204–214.
17. Carlsson, M., Fumarco, L. and Rooth, D. (2014). Does the Design of Correspondence Studies Influence the Measurement of Discrimination?, IZA Journal of Migration.
3(1):1-17
18. Carlsson, M. and Rooth, D. (2012). Revealing Taste-Based Discrimination in Hiring:
A Correspondence Testing Experiment with Geographic Variation. Applied Economics Letters. 19(18): 1861-1864.
19. Carlsson, M. and Rooth, D. (2012). The Power of Media and Changes in Discriminatory Behavior among Employers. Journal of Media Economics. 25(2): 98- 108.
20. Carlsson, M. (2011). Does Hiring Discrimination Cause Gender Segregation in the Swedish Labor Market? Feminist Economics. 17(3): 71-102.
21. Carlsson, M. (2010). Experimental Evidence of Discrimination in the Hiring of 1st and 2nd Generation Immigrants. Labour. 24(3): 263-278.
22. Carlsson, M. and Rooth, D. (2007). Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market using Experimental Data. Labour Economics. 14(4): 716-729.
Articles published in Swedish
23. Carlsson och Eriksson (2020). Väljs äldre jobbsökande bort vid rekryteringar?
Ekonomisk Debatt. 48(7), 7-18
24. Carlsson och Eriksson (2017). Påverkar arbetssökandes ålder och kön chansen att få svar på jobbansökan? Resultat från ett fältexperiment. IFAU-rapport 2017:8
25. Carlsson, M. (2012). Är förkunskaper verkligen viktiga för framgångsrika högre studier? En analys av studieresultatet på en grundläggande högskolekurs i statistik.
Högre utbildning, 2(1), 33-46.
26. Carlsson, M. och Skedinger, P. (2011). Reglering eller diskriminering. Vad hindrar etablering?, FORES Studie 2011:4, Stockholm.
27. Carlsson, M. (2009), Kan könsdiskriminering förklara yrkessegregeringen på den svenska arbetsmarknaden?, Ekonomisk Debatt. 37(8), 38-48.
28. Carlsson, M., Rooth D-O (2007), Etnisk diskriminering på svensk arbetsmarknad – resultat från ett fältexperiment, Ekonomisk Debatt, 35(3), 55-68
29. Carlsson, M. och Rooth, D. (2007), Correspondence testing och etnisk diskriminering på svensk arbetsmarknad, Sökelys på arbeidslivet, 3. 375-382.
PhD thesis
30. Carlsson, M. (2009) Essays on Discrimination in Hiring, PhD Thesis, Växjö University Press, Växjö.
Externally funded research projects:
Main applicant
"Promoting diversity in the labor market - what measures are most effective? Experimental studies in partnership with firms and organizations" 2018. The Swedish Research Council (VR). Main applicant: Magnus Carlsson. 17 600 000 SEK. Grant for a research environment 2019-2024. Id: 2018-03487.
Not main applicant
”Equal health care: Does Hassan receive the same treatment as Erik when suffering from sudden cardiac arrest and do medical staff's stereotypes influence treatment of patients from different groups?” 2018. The Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE). Main applicant: Jens Agerström. 2 330 000 kr. 2019-2020. Id: 2018- 00256.
”Newly arrived refugees’ labor market integration: A study of measures in the establishment mission and how these affect employers’ recruitment decisions” 2018, The Swedish Research Council (VR). Main applicant: Dan-Olof Rooth. 3 900 000 SEK.
“Nordic Centre for Research on Gender Equality in Research and Innovation
(NORDICORE)” 2017. 21.8 million NOK Financed by a grant from NordForsk. Main applicant: Mari Teigen
“Gender, skills and careers. A longitudinal study of income, occupation and family among highly educated men and women in Sweden 1990-2009”. 2011. Financed by a grant from FAS. 3.1 million SEK. Main applicant: Dan-Olof Rooth.
“Informal and formal search methods: A study on the importance of differences in search behavior between unemployed immigrants and natives”. 2009. Financed by a grant from the Swedish Research Council (VR). 3.65 million SEK. Main applicant: Dan-Olof Rooth.
“Are Lasse and Anna preferred over Mohammed and Fatima? An experimental study of ethnic discrimination on the Swedish labor market”. 2006. Financed by a grant from FAS. 1.7 million SEK. Main applicant: Dan-Olof Rooth.
Editorial work:
Guest editor for the International Journal of Manpower, special issue "Hiring Discrimination:
Measures, Moderators and Mechanisms" (2017-2018) Administration and leadership experience
Research director for the research environment “Promoting diversity in the labor market - what measures are most effective? Experimental studies in partnership with firms and organizations” founded by the Swedish Research Council 2019-2024 (18 million SEK).
Elected Member of the Faculty Board of the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2016-2018; 2019-2021
Member of the board of the research center Linnaeus University Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies (LNUC-DIS) at Linnaeus University, 2017-
Coordinator and contact person for LNUC-DIS, 2017-
Director of the doctoral programme in Economics at Linnaeus University, 2017-
Member of the steering group of SWEGPEC (network of universities with joint PhD courses in economics) 2017-
Organizer of Conference on Hiring Discrimination: Measures, Moderators and Mechanisms at Linnaeus University, Sweden, August 2017 (with Stijn Baert and Nick Drydakis).
Organizer of Conference on Discrimination and Labour Market Research at Linnaeus University, Sweden, August 2015 (with Lina Aldén).
Organizer of Conference on Discrimination and Labour Market Research at Linnaeus University, Sweden, May 2013 (with Lina Aldén and Lars Behrenz).
Member of the “pedagogical group” at the Department of Economics and Statistics at Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2013-2015.
Member of the committee that worked with the Swedish Council for Higher Education´s evaluation of the field of economics at the Department of Economics and Statistics at Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2013
Member of the committee for reviewing the doctoral program at the School of Business and Economics at Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2015
Supervision and teaching:
Main supervisor for doctoral student Abdulaziz Abrar Reshid, Department of economics and statistics, Linnaeus University, graduated 2017.
Assistant supervisor for doctoral student Luca Fumarco, Department of economics and statistics, Linnaeus University, graduated 2015.
Main supervisor for doctoral student Asuman Erenel, Department of economics and statistics, Linnaeus University, expected to graduate 2023.
Assistant supervisor for doctoral student Amanda Heath, Department of phycology, Linnaeus University, expected to graduate 2023.
Assistant supervisor for doctoral student Andrea Strinic, Department of phycology, Linnaeus University, expected to graduate 2022.
B.A. thesis advisor, 2011- Courses:
Topics in Labor Economics, advanced level, 2015-
Empirical Methods in Economics, advanced level (head teacher), 2015- Labor Economics, intermediate level, 2010-
Macroeconomics, basic level (head teacher), 2008-2014 Statistics, basic level (head teacher), 2009-2010
Macroeconomics, basic level (teacher assistant), 2005-2007 Microeconomics, basic level (teacher assistant), 2005-2009 Pedagogical training (all at Linnaeus University) 2011-2015 Compulsory Higher Education Teacher Training Module 1.
Compulsory Higher Education Teacher Training Module 2.
FLUS - Supervision in Postgraduate Programs The Main Yellow Thread (about quality in courses) Member of grading committees for doctoral students:
Weber, Rosa, Stockholm University, January, 2020 Siddartha Aradhya, Lund University, April, 2018 Yana Pryymachenko, Lund University, May, 2017 Chizheng Miao, Linnaeus University, April, 2017 Hilda Ralsmark, Lund University, June, 2015 Guest researcher at:
University College London, six and four months, respectively, in 2008 and 2009 Awards:
In 2010, I was awarded the Wallander post-doc scholarship from the Jan Wallander´s and Tom Hedelius´ Foundation (1 365 000 Swedish Kronor)
In 2009, I was awarded a scholarship from the Jan Wallander´s and Tom Hedelius´
Foundation for my four month stay at University College London, UK. (48 000 Swedish Kronor)
In 2008, I was awarded a scholarship from the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research for my six month stay at University College London, UK. (145 000 Swedish Kronor)
Reviewer for scientific journals:
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Population Space and Place, Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Labour Economics, Journal of Population Economics, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, International Journal of Manpower, Land Economics, Economic Enquiry, the Manchester School, Journal for Labor Market Research, Journal of Housing Economics, Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Urban Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Journal of International Migration and Integration.
Reviewer for governmental bodies:
The Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy The Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth
Invited talks at scientific conferences:
Social Impacts of Economic Policies and Change, Heidelberg, Germany, 2015. Presented:
“Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes?”
Conference on Labour Market Policies hosted by the Swedish Public Employment Service, 2017. Presented:”The Effect of Age and Gender on Labor Demand – Evidence from a Field Experiment”
Other presentations at scientific conferences 2007-2017:
2015, Conference on Discrimination and Labour Market Research, Kalmar.
2014, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Conference, Ljubljana.
2013, Conference on Discrimination and Labour Market Research, Växjö.
2013, Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers, London.
2013, European Economic Association & Econometric Society, Gothenburg.
2011, European Society of Population Economics (ESPE), Hangzhou.
2010, The Institute for Labour Market Policy Evaluation (IFAU) Conference on immigration and labor market integration, Uppsala.
2009, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Conference, Tallin.
2008, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Conference, Amsterdam.
2008, European Society of Population Economics (ESPE), London.
2007, European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Conference, Oslo.
2007, European Society of Population Economics (ESPE), Chicago.
2005, FINish Association of EXperimental Economics (FINEXE) workshop on applied microeconomics, Joensuu.
Presentations at economic departments:
The Institute for Social Research (Norway), University College London (UK), Stockholm University (Sweden), Swedish Institute for Social Research (Sweden), Lund University (Sweden), Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy (IFAU, Sweden), Linnaeus University (Sweden).
Member of:
European Society of Population Economics (ESPE) The European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Royal Economic Society (RES)
The American Economic Association (AEA)
