Sep. 2017 - Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark
Sep. 2015 - IZA Research Fellow, Institute for the Study of Labor, Bonn, Germany
Sep. 2019 - CReAM Fellow, University College London, United Kingdom
On maternity leave: May 2016 - Feb. 2017, Mar. - Dec. 2018
Apr. 2017 - Jan. 2018 Harvard Business School Executive Education, Pasteur Program
Mar. 2011 - Jun. 2014 Ph.D. in Economics, UCPH
Jan. 2007 - Feb. 2010 M.Sc. in Economics, UCPH
Mar. 2017 - Apr. 2017 Frisch Centre, Oslo (hosts: Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum
Apr. 2015 - May 2015 Dartmouth College (host: Ethan Lewis)
Sep. 2012 - Jan. 2013 University of California, Davis (host: Giovanni Peri)
Jan. 2012 - May 2012 University College London (host: Christian Dustmann)
Fall 2020 Econometrics A (lecturer, BA)
Spring 2018,2019,2020 Labour Economics (lecturer, MA elective course)
Spring 2016 Globalization and Labor Markets (lecturer, MA seminar)
Fall 2014,2015 Advanced International Trade, UCPH (lecturer, MA elective course)
Jun. 2014 - Aug. 2017 Postdoc, University of Copenhagen
Jan. 2010 - Feb. 2011 Research Assistant, Aalborg University
Apr. 2007 - Dec. 2009 Research Assistant, Copenhagen Business School
Oct. 2005 - May 2007 Student at the Danish Labor Market Authority
2017, Labour Economics Prize for the best article in Labour Economics in 2016
2010, Zeuthen Prize for Wage Effects of International Return Migration (prize to best Master’s Thesis at Department of Economics, UCPH)
Arendt, Bolvig, Foged, Hasager and Peri. 2020. Integrating Refugees: Language Training or Work-First Incentives? NBER Working Paper No. 26834
Foged and van der Werf. 2020. The Formation of Language Skills and the Economic Success of Refugees. PhD dissertation UC Davis
Foged, Hasager and Yasenov. 2019. The Role of Institutions in the Labor Market Impact of Immigration. Stanford IPL Working Paper (R&R Scandinavian Journal of Economics)
Foged, Mette. 2016. Family Migration and Relative Earnings Potentials. Labour Economics 42(C), pp 87-100. Won Labour Economics Prize for best paper in 2016
Foged, Mette and Giovanni Peri. 2016. Immigrants’ Effect on Native Workers: New Analysis on Longitudinal Data. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8(2), pp.1-34.
IN DANISH:
Foged, Mette. 2014. Positive effekter af diversitet på arbejdsmarkedet, Samfundsøkonomen (The Social Scientist), No. 4, pp. 14-18
Martin D. Munk, Mette Foged and Andreas M. Mulvad. 2011. Familiers kosmopolitiske uddannelsesstrategier – et spørgsmål om migration og investering i distinktiv kapital, Dansk Sociologi (Danish Sociology), vol. 22, No. 3
Jun. 11, 2020 Norwegian School of Economics, FAIR
Apr. 23, 2020 Bristol
Apr. 21, 2020 UCL, Center for Research and Analysis of Migration
May 2, 2019 Uppsala
Mar. 14, 2017 ASD
Mar. 2, 2017 The Danish Economic Society
Jan. 31, 2017 SNS
Jun., 9, 2015 The Swedish Economc Association
Sep. 9-11, 2014 Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Sep. 30 - Oct. 14, 2013 UC Davis
Jun. 24-29, 2012 Ifo Center for International Institutional Comparisons and Migration Research
2015: 12th IZA Annual Migration Meeting (AM²) and 5th Migration Topic Week, Dakar
2014: NBER Summer Institute, Labor Studies, Cambridge;
3rdIZA@DC Young Scholar Program, Washington
2013: CEMIR: Junior Economist Workshop on Migration Research, CESifo;
The European Economic Association (EEA), University of Gothenburg;
Migration: Global Development, New Frontiers, University College London (UCL)
2012: 26thAnnual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE), University of Bern
2011: Migration: Economic Change, Social Challenge, University College London (UCL)
Foged, Mette, Natnael Simachew and Nana Wesley. 2019. Expats and the firms they work in. Copenhagen: FAOS, Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Report No. 167
Foged, Mette, Linea Hasager and Vasil Yasenov. 2018. Litteraturstudie om virkninger af udenlandsk arbejdskraft. Copenhagen: Ministry of Employment.