Olle Hammar
Visiting researcher at Department of Economics; Affiliated researchers and teachers
- E-mail:
- olle.hammar@nek.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Ekonomikum
Kyrkogårdsgatan 10 - Postal address:
- Box 513
751 20 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-2341-3751
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Short presentation
Olle Hammar is an assistant professor in economics at Linnaeus University and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. He is affiliated with Uppsala Immigration Lab, UCLS, UCFS, IZA and IFN. Olle has a PhD in economics from Uppsala University since 2021. His main research interests are inequality, culture and migration.
Keywords
- development economics
- labor economics
- political economics
- public economics
Biography
Current Positions
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics and Statistics, Linnaeus University, 2023-
Researcher, Institute for Futures Studies, 2021-
Previous Positions
Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), 2021-2023
Visiting Ph.D. Student, University of California, Berkeley, January-February 2020
Visiting Ph.D. Scholar, Columbia University, September-December 2017
Affiliations
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Migrant World Values Survey (MWVS)
Institute for Futures Studies (IFFS)
Uppsala Immigration Lab (UIL)
Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN)
Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies (UCFS)
Uppsala Center for Labor Studies (UCLS)
Association of Swedish Development Economists (ASWEDE)
Education
Ph.D. Economics, Uppsala University
Ph.Lic. Economics, Uppsala University
M.Sc. Business and Economics, Lund University
B.Sc. Development Studies, Lund University
B.Sc. Politics and Economics, Lund University
Research
Current Research Projects
"Social Networks and Immigrant Integration: Experimental Evidence from Sweden" (with Mounir Karadja and Akib Khan)
"The Cultural Assimilation of Individualism and Preferences for Redistribution", Job Market Paper
"The Swedish Income Distribution, 1968-2016" (with Paula Roth and Daniel Waldenström)
"Rethinking Global Wealth Inequality: The Role of Human Capital" (with Daniel Waldenström)
"Wealth Inequality in Sweden, 1968-2016" (with Paula Roth, Felicia Stokke and Daniel Waldenström)
"Longitudinal Changes in Non-European Migrant Values and Social Norms in Sweden" (with Bi Puranen and Christian Welzel)
"Distributional National Accounts in the Welfare State: Sweden, 1930-2020" (with Paula Roth, Daniel Waldenström and Gabriel Zucman)
Publications
Selection of publications
- Where Would Ukrainian Refugees Go if They Could Go Anywhere? (2023)
- Social Networks and Immigrant Integration (2022)
- The Mystery of Inequality (2021)
- Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2018 (2020)
- The Impact of Social Beliefs on Microfinance Performance (2015)
Recent publications
- Vart vill ukrainarna ta vägen? Migrationspreferenser i Ukraina (2023)
- Where Would Ukrainian Refugees Go if They Could Go Anywhere? (2023)
- Under ytan (2023)
- Hur många kommer fly från Ukraina och vilka EU-länder kommer de söka sig till? (2022)
- How large will the Ukrainian refugee flow be, and which EU countries will they seek refuge in? (2022)
All publications
Articles
- Vart vill ukrainarna ta vägen? Migrationspreferenser i Ukraina (2023)
- Where Would Ukrainian Refugees Go if They Could Go Anywhere? (2023)
- Social Networks and Immigrant Integration (2022)
- Femtio år av global ojämlikhet (2020)
- Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2018 (2020)
- The Impact of Social Beliefs on Microfinance Performance (2015)