Curriculum Vitae Nov 2017 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, political economics. 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 Computer programmer, Cloop Systems AB, Uppsala, Sweden, 2000-2001
Complete list of publications: Peer reviewed articles 1. Carlsson, M., Reshid, A., and Rooth, D. O. (2017). Neighborhood signaling effects, commuting time, and employment Evidence from a field experiment. International Journal of Manpower. Accepted 2. Carlsson, M. Fumarco, L., and Rooth D-O. (2017). Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring, Labor Market Tightness and the Business Cycle - Evidence from Field Experiments. Applied Economics. Accepted 3. Carlsson, M., Eriksson, S. and Rooth, D.-O. (2017). Job Search Methods and Wages: Are Natives and Immigrants Different? The Manchester School. doi:10.1111/manc.12202 4. Carlsson, M. and Eriksson, S. (2017). Do attitudes expressed in surveys predict ethnic discrimination? Ethnic and Racial Studies, 40(10): 1739-1757. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. 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. 8. Carlsson, M. and Eriksson, S. (2014). Discrimination in the Rental Market for Apartments. Journal of Housing Economics. 23: 41-54. 9. 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. 10. 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 11. 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. 12. 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. 13. Carlsson, M. (2011). Does Hiring Discrimination Cause Gender Segregation in the Swedish Labor Market? Feminist Economics. 17(3): 71-102. 14. Carlsson, M. (2010). Experimental Evidence of Discrimination in the Hiring of 1st and 2nd Generation Immigrants. Labour. 24(3): 263-278.
15. Carlsson, M. and Rooth, D. (2007). Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market using Experimental Data. Labour Economics. 14(4): 716-729. Working papers 16. Carlsson, M and Eriksson, S. (2017). The Effect of Age and Gender on Labor Demand - Evidence from a Field Experiment. Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies Working Paper 2017:4. Submitted to journal. 17. Carlsson, M., Dahl, G. B., and Rooth, D. O. (2015). Do Politicians Change Public Attitudes? National Bureau of Economic Research. Working Paper No. 21062. Submitted to journal. 18. Carlsson, M., Reshid, A., and Rooth, D. O. (2015). Explaining the Gender Wage Gap Among Recent College Graduates Pre-Labor Market Factors or Employer Discrimination? Linnaeus University Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies Working Paper 2015:7. Linnaeus University. Submitted to journal. 19. Carlsson, M., and Rooth, D. O. (2015). What can we Learn from Correspondence Testing Studies? Centre for Discrimination and Integration Studies Working Paper Working Paper 2015:8. Linnaeus University. Not submitted. Articles published in Swedish 20. Carlsson och Eriksson (2017). Påverkar arbetssökandes ålder och kön chansen att få svar på jobbansökan? Resultat från ett fältexperiment. IFAU-rapport 2017:8 21. 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. 22. Carlsson, M. och Skedinger, P. (2011). Reglering eller diskriminering. Vad hindrar etablering?, FORES Studie 2011:4, Stockholm. 23. Carlsson, M. (2009), Kan könsdiskriminering förklara yrkessegregeringen på den svenska arbetsmarknaden?, Ekonomisk Debatt. 37(8), 38-48. 24. Carlsson, M., Rooth D-O (2007), Etnisk diskriminering på svensk arbetsmarknad resultat från ett fältexperiment, Ekonomisk Debatt, 35(3), 55-68 25. Carlsson, M. och Rooth, D. (2007), Correspondence testing och etnisk diskriminering på svensk arbetsmarknad, Sökelys på arbeidslivet, 3. 375-382. PhD thesis 26. Carlsson, M. (2009) Essays on Discrimination in Hiring, PhD Thesis, Växjö University Press, Växjö.
Administration and leadership experience Elected Member of the Faculty Board of the School of Business and Economics, Linnaeus University, Sweden, 2016- 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 Externally funded research projects: PII: Populism, Inequality and Institutions 2017. Financed by a grant from NORFACE. 470,000 Euro. Main applicant: David Soskice 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) Supervision and teaching: Assistant supervisor for doctoral student Andrea Strinic, Department of phycology, Linnaeus University, expected to graduate 2022. 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. 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 Member of grading committees for doctoral students: 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: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 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 of Housing Economics, Applied Economics, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Urban Studies, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 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). 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: European Society of Population Economics (ESPE) The European Association of Labour Economists (EALE) Royal Economic Society (RES) The American Economic Association (AEA)