Magnus Gustavsson
Associate Professor

Primary fields of interest and research topics:

Labour Economics; Economics of Inequality

Articles in refereed journals:

Gustavsson, M. and P. Österholm, "The Presence of Unemployment Hysteresis in the OECD: What Can We Learn from Out-of-Sample Forecasts?", Empirical Economics, forthcoming.

Gustavsson, M., "A New Picture of Swedish Earnings Inequality: Persistent and Transitory Components, 1960–1990", Review of Income and Wealth, Vol. 54(3), pp. 324–349, 2008.

Dahlberg, M. and M. Gustavsson, "Inequality and Crime: Separating the Effects of Permanent and Transitory Income", Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 70(2), pp. 129–153, 2008.

Gustavsson, M. and H. Jordahl, "Trust and Inequality in Sweden: Some Inequalities are More Harmfull than Others", Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 92(1–2), pp. 348–365, 2008.

Edin, P.-A. and M. Gustavsson, "Time Out of Work and Skill Depreciation", Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 61(2), pp. 163–180, 2008.

Gustavsson, M. and P. Österholm, "Does Unemployment Hysteresis Equal Employment Hysteresis?", Economic Record, Vol. 83(2), pp. 159-173, 2007.

Gustavsson, M., "The 1990s Rise in Swedish Earnings Inequality - Persistent or Transitory?", Applied Economics, Vol. 39(1), 25-30, 2007.

Gustavsson, M. and P. Österholm, "The Informational Value of Unemployment Statistics: A Note on the Time Series Properties of Participation Rates", Economics Letters, Vol. 92(3), 428-433, 2006.

Gustavsson, M. and P. Österholm, "Hysteresis and Non-Linearities in Unemployment Rates", Applied Economics Letters 13(9), 545-549, 2006.

Gustavsson, M., "The Evolution of the Swedish Wage Structure: New Evidence for 1992-2001", Applied Economics Letters, 13(5), 279-286, 2006.

Other Publications:

Empirical Essays on Earnings Inequality, Economic Studies 80, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, 2004 (Ph.D. Thesis).

Current research projects:

"A Longitudinal Analysis of Within-Education-Group Earnings Inequality in Sweden".

"Is there Really a Unit-Root in Individual Earnings?", with Pär Österholm.

"Mean Reversion in the US Unemployment Rate – Evidence from Bootstrapped out-of-Sample Forecasts", with Pär Österholm.

"Labor Force Participation Rates and the Informational Value of Unemployment Rates: Evidence from Disaggregated US Data", with Pär Österholm.