Christer Gerdes
Assistant Professor of Economics
Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)
Stockholm University
SE-10691 Stockholm
SWEDEN

Phone: +46 8 6747815
Fax: +46 8 154670
E-mail: christer.gerdes@sofi.su.se

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Publications

Dissertation
"Studying the Interplay of Immigration and Welfare States", Dissertation Series No. 73, Swedish Institute for Social Research

Book chapters
“Immigrants and the Public Sector in Denmark and Germany”, and “Some Socioeconomic Consequences of Immigration”, both coauthored with Eskil Wadensjö, chapter 10 and 11 in Torben Tranæs and Klaus Zimmerman (eds.), Migrants, Work and the Welfare State, 2004, University Press of Southern Denmark, Odense

"Post-Enlargement Migration and Labour Market Impact in Sweden", with Eskil Wadensjö, in Klaus Zimmermann and Martin Kahanec (eds.) EU Labor Markets After Post-Enlargement Migration, 2010, Springer, Heidelberg

"Immigrants from the New EU Member States and the Swedish Welfare State", Sieps Rapport 2008:9, with Eskil Wadensjö

"Determination of Net Transfers for Immigrants in Germany", Study Paper No. 16, Rockwool Foundation Research Unit, 2007

Articles in referee reviewed journals
"A comparative study of net transfers for different immigrant groups: Evidence from Germany", forthcoming in International Migration

"The impact of immigration on the size of government: Empirical evidence from Danish municipalities", in Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011, Vol. 113, pp. 74–92

"STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR ACROSS GENDER A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players", with Patrik Gränsmark, published in Labour Economics, 2010, Vol. 7, pp. 766–775

"Using 'Shares' vs. 'Log of Shares' in Fixed-Effect Estimations", in Journal of Economics and Econometrics, 2011, Vol. 54, pp. 1–7

Working papers
"The Impact of Immigration on Election Outcomes in Danish Municipalities", with Eskil Wadensjö, IZA Discussion Papers No. 3586
"The Impact of Immigration on Election Outcomes in Danish Municipalities", with Eskil Wadensjö, SULCIS Working Papers No 2010:3

"The Impact of Immigration on the Size of Government: Empirical Evidence from Danish Municipalities", APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper

"Does Immigration Induce ‘Native Flight’ from Public Schools? Evidence from a large scale voucher program", SULCIS Working Papers No 2010:1
"Does Immigration Induce ‘Native Flight’ from Public Schools? Evidence from a large scale voucher program", IZA Discussion Papers No. 4788

"STRATEGIC BEHAVIOR ACROSS GENDER A Comparison of Female and Male Expert Chess Players", with Patrik Gränsmark, IZA Discussion Papers No. 4793

"Using 'Shares' vs. 'Log of Shares' in Fixed-Effect Estimations", IZA Discussion Papers No. 5171

"Beauty Queens and Battling Knights: Risk Taking and Attractiveness in Chess", with Anna Dreber and Patrik Gränsmark, SSRN Working Paper Series

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