Mette Foged

Mette Foged

Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics

University of Copenhagen

About Me

I am an applied labor economist working on topics related to refugee integration, determinants and consequences of immigration and household decision making. I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Copenhagen and a Research Fellow at IZA and CReAM and I have been awarded the Labour Economics Prize for the best article in Labour Economics in 2016.

I lead the Economic Assimilation Research Network, which was awarded the Innovation Fund Denmark’s Grand Solutions research grant in 2017.

Positions and Affiliations

Economic Assimilation Research Network

I lead the Economic Assimilation Research Network, which aims to improve our knowledge on how public policy can foster the integration of refugees.

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News

Linea Hasager joins CReAM at University College London as a Postdoc

Linea Hasager, former PhD student at the EARN grant, joins CReAM at University College London as a Postdoc from December 2021

EARN working paper "The Role of Institutions in the Labor Market Impact of Immigration" accepted at Scandinavian Journal of Economics

The EARN working paper “The Role of Institutions in the Labor Market Impact of Immigration”, by Mette Foged, Linea Hasager and Vasco Yasenov has been accepted at Scandinavian Journal of Economics. Find more on the paper here.

EARN Working Paper “Language Training and Refugees’ Integration” presented at the European Commission.

Giovanni Peri presented the EARN Working Paper “Language Training and Refugees’ Integration” at the European Commission.

EARN working papers on language training covered in the media

The EARN working papers “Early labour market entry, language acquisition and labour market success of refugees”, by Jacob Nielsen Arendt and Iben Bolvig and “Language training and refugees’ integration” by Mette Foged, Jacob Nielsen Arendt, Iben Bolvig, Linea Hasager and Giovanni Peri have recently been covered in the Danish newspaper Altinget.

New EARN Working Paper available

The EARN Working Paper “Sick of your poor neighborhood? Quasi-Experimental evidence on neighborhood effects on health” by Linea Hasager and Mia Jørgensen is now available as a CEBI WP.

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