Johanna Rickne is Professor of Economics at the Swedish Institute for Social Research at Stockholm University.  She is also a Research Fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), a Wallenberg Academy Fellow, and an affiliated researcher at the Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) and an Affiliated Researcher at the Stockholm China Economic Research Center. 

Her research studies labour economics, political economics, and gender economics. in 2023, she was awarded a prestigious European Research Council (ERC) “Consolidator” grant for her project Research Program on Sexual Harassment Prevention (RE-SHAPE).

Johanna Rickne's website

She will present a paper, joint with Olle Folke, at the next PEPES Seminar on the topic:

The Seniority Ceiling: Why Some Immigrants Struggle to Rise in Political Office (read abstract, PDF 32 MB)

The next PEPES Seminar will host Sophie HATTE (ENS Lyon) on December 4th.