Dan-Olof Rooth Professor Department of Economics Kalmar University 391 82 Kalmar, Sweden Phone: +46 480497134 Fax: +46 480497110 E-mail: dan-olof.rooth@hik.se Homepage: http://www.bbs.hik.se Curriculum Vitae Education: Highschool Diploma, JFK Highschool, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1986. Bachelor of Social Sciences, Department of Economics, Lund University, 1993. Ph.D. Department of Economics, Lund University, 1999. Associate professor, Department of Economics, Lund University, 2004. Employment: Assistant professor, Kalmar University, 2000. Associate professor, Kalmar University, 2004. Research director, SNS, 2006-2007. Professor, Kalmar University, 2009. Teaching Experience: Economics, Basic courses, Östersund university college, spring 1994. Economics, Basic courses, Kalmar university college, 1994-. Economics, PhD course, Lund university, 2001- Research fellow: Center for Comparative Immigration Studies (CCIS) at University of California, San Diego. Centre for research and analysis of migration (CReAM) at University College London. IZA, Bonn Research grants: What happened then? Studies on long-run integration of refugee immigrants (1987-1991) on the Swedish labour market during the 1990s. Financed by a grant from Socialvetenskapliga forskningsrådet (SFR) 2000-2002. Refugee immigrants on the Swedish labour market year 2000: the importance of language skills and informal networks for labour market positions. Financed by a grant from Rådet för arbetslivsforskning (RALF) 2000-2002.
Immigrants and the 21 st century labour market: Financed by a grant from FAS- Forskningsrådet arbetsliv och socialvetenskap 2004-2006. Föredras Lasse och Anna framför Mohammed och Fatima? En experimentell studie av etnisk diskriminering på den svenska arbetsmarknaden. Financed by a grant from FAS - Forskningsrådet arbetsliv och socialvetenskap 2006-2007. Scientific and Published Works: In Swedish: 1. _, 1995, Arbetslöshetsersättningens påverkan på arbetslösheten - en svensk studie Ekonomisk Debatt, 1:1995, s. 59-65. 2. _, 2000, Flyktingar på arbetsmarknaden: är utbildning eller arbetserfarenhet det bästa valet Ekonomisk Debatt, 5:2000, s. 441-449. 3. _, 2000, Arbetsmarknadspolitik för invandrare, report to Riksdagens revisorer. 4. _, 2001, Är invandrare oprioriterade inom arbetsmarknadspolitiken? Ekonomisk Debatt, 4:2001, s. 285-291. (co-author: Jan Ekberg, Växjö university) 5. _,2001, Etnisk diskriminering och Sverige-specifik kunskap vad kan vi lära från studier av adopterade och andra generationens invandrare?, Ekonomisk Debatt, 8:2001, s. 535-546. 6. _,2004, Yrke och utbildning på 2000-talets arbetsmarknad - skillnader mellan inrikes och utrikes födda personer, Integrationsverkets Rapportserie. (co-author: Jan Ekberg, Växjö university). 7. _,2005, Orsakar främlingsfientlighet diskriminering på arbetsmarknaden? Erfarenheter efter 11 september, Ekonomisk Debatt, 1:2005, s. 5-15, (co-author: Olof Åslund, Uppsala university). 8. _,2005, Invandring till Sverige ger lägre yrkesstatus, Ekonomisk Debatt, 3:2005, s. 18-23, (co-author: Jan Ekberg, Växjö university). 9. _,2005, Slöseri med kunskaper, Invandrare och Minoriteter, 5-6:2005, s. 13-15, (co-author: Jan Ekberg, Växjö university). 10. _,2006, Modersmål och arbetsmarknadsutfall: finsk- och svenskspråkiga finländare i Sverige, Ekonomisk Debatt, 2006, (coauthor: Jan Saarela, Åbo university). 11. _,2006, Yrkesrörlighet för utrikes födda akademiker 1990-2001, Integrationsverkets Rapportserie.
12. _2007, Får utlandsfödda betalt för sin utbildning och sina kunskaper i svenska?, Ekonomisk Debatt, 2007, (co-author: Olof Åslund, IFAU). 13. _2007 Etnisk diskriminering på svensk arbetsmarknad resultat från ett fältexperiment, Ekonomisk Debatt, 2007 (co-author: Magnus Carlsson, Kalmar University). In English: 1. _, 1999, Refugee Immigrants in Sweden: Educational Investments and Labour Market Integration, Lund Economic Studies no. 84, PhD-thesis. Department of economics, Lund university. 2. _, 2000, Modeling Female Fertility Using Inflated Count Data Models, Journal of Population Economics, 13:189-203. (co-author: Maria Melkersson) 3. _, 2001, Labour market integration of immigrants - refugee immigrants in Sweden during the 1990 s, in Andreas Jonssons (Lund university) Licentiate thesis: Studies in the Dynamics of Immigrant Unemployment. 4. _, 2002, Adopted Children in the Labour Market -Discrimination or Unobserved Characteristics?, International Migration, 40 (1):71-98. 5. _, 2003, Unemployment and Earnings for Second Generation Immigrants in Sweden Ethnic Background and Parent Composition, Journal of Population Economics 16 (4):787-814. (co-author: Jan Ekberg, Växjö university). 6. _, 2003, Do When and Where Matter? Initial Labor Market Conditions and Immigrant Earnings, IFAU working papers 2003:7, (co-author: Olof Åslund, Uppsala university). 7. _, 2004, The Effect of Language Proficiency on Employment for Immigrants - the Case of Sweden, Acta Wexioensia, 55: 81-96. 8. _, 2004, Shifting attitudes and the labor market of minorities: Swedish experiences after 9-11, IFAU working papers 2004:16, (co-author: Olof Åslund, Uppsala university). 9. _, 2005, Shifts in attitudes and labor market discrimination: Swedish experiences after 9-11, Journal of Population Economics 18 (4): 602-629. (coauthor: Olof Åslund, Uppsala university). 10. _, 2006, How integrated are Finns on the Swedish labour market? Outcomes of free labour mobility, International Migration, 44 (2):119-152., (co-author: Jan Saarela, Åbo university). 11. _, 2006, Occupational mobility for immigrants in Sweden?, International Migration, 44 (2):57-77., (co-author: Jan Ekberg, Växjö university).
12. _, 2006, Selection in migration and return-migration: evidence from micro data, Economic Letters. 94(1): 90-95. (co-author: Jan Saarela, Åbo university). 13. _, 2007, Do When and Where Matter? Initial Labor Market Conditions and Immigrant Earnings, Economic Journal, 117(3):422-448 (co-author: Olof Åslund, Uppsala universitet). 14. _, 2007, Evidence of Ethnic Discrimination in the Swedish Labor Market Using Experimental Data, Labour Economics 14:716-729.. (co-author: Magnus Carlsson, Kalmar University). 15. _, 2007, Native language and immigrant labour market outcomes: an alternative approach to measuring the returns to language skills, Journal of International Migration and Integration 8(2):207-221. (co-author: Jan Saarela, Åbo University). 16. _, 2009, Implicit Prejudice and Ethnic Minorities: Arab-Muslims in Sweden, International Journal of Manpower 30(1/2):43-55 (co-author: Jens Agerström, Lund University). 17. _, 2009, Obesity, attractiveness and differential treatment in hiring - a field experiment, forthcoming in Journal of Human Resources. 18. _, 2009, The Ethnic Employment and Income Gap in Sweden: Is Skill or Labor Market Discrimination the Explanation? forthcoming in Scandinavian Journal of Economics. (co-author: Martin Nordin, Lund University). 19. _, 2009, Automatic associations and discrimination in hiring: Real world evidence, forthcoming in Labour Economics. Work in progress and submitted work: 1. Wage Effects of Search Methods for Immigrants and Natives: the case of Sweden (co-author: Åsa Olli Segendorf, Stockholms university). 2. Does Immigration Affect the Labor Market Outcomes of Natives? The Area Approach for Sweden (co-author: Inga Persson, Lund university). 3. The Determinants of Language Proficiency for Immigrants in Sweden. 4. Automatically Activated Stereotypes and Differential Treatment Against the Obese in Hiring, IZA-DP #3799 5. Education-Occupation Mismatch: Is There an Income Penalty?, IZA-DP #3806
6. Is It Your Foreign Name or Foreign Qualifications? An Experimental Study of Ethnic Discrimination in Hiring, IZA-DP #3810 7. An Experimental Study of Sex Segregation in the Swedish Labour Market: Is Discrimination the Explanation?, IZA-DP #3811 8. Implicit Prejudice and Ethnic Minorities: Arab-Muslims in Sweden, IZA-DP #3873 9. Scientific (Wo)manpower? Gender and the Composition and Earnings of PhDs in Sweden, IZA-DP #3878 10. The Impact of Being Monitored on Discriminatory Behavior among Employers: Evidence from a Natural Experiment, IZA-DP #3972 11. Critical Periods During Childhood and Adolescence: A Study of Adult Height Among Immigrant Siblings, IZA-DP #4140