Associate Professor
Main Research and Teaching Areas
- Political Economy
- International Migration
- Welfare & Social Policy Transformations
- Economic Sociology
- Socioeconomic Development
- Public Policy and Institutions
- Quantitative Research Methods
- Mixed-Methods Research
Current Research
Current research entails two specific projects. The first project focuses on conditionality, social policy transformations and social investments by analyzing effects of retractions of study allowances in Swedish high schools, using register data from Swedish Board of Student Finance (CSN). Planned output includes comparative analyses with other cash transfer programs in Europe, the U.S. and Latin America.
The second project pertains to the global quest for talent, particularly STEM (i.e. science, technology, engineering, and math) migration and high-skilled competency in the Swedish Labor Market.
Selected Publications
Author
2023
2022
- Immigrant Organizations and Labor market Integration: The Case of Sweden.
- The Migration-Development Nexus Revisited: Immigrant Organizations and the Swedish Policy Framework for Development and Humanitarian Assistance.
2021
2018
- Spain: extreme case of successful integration of second-generation immigrants with transfers of best practices applicable to other European countries?
- Beyond Granted Asylum - Labor Market Integration Challenges in Sweden
2017
- Social Investment in Latin America in A. Hemerijck (ed.) The Uses of Social Investment. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- From Perspectives to Policy Contingencies: Conditional cash transfers as social investments
2016
2015
- Evidence-based Policymaking? Revisiting the "Known", the Assumed and the Promoted in New Social Development Policy
- Politicisation of Conditional Cash Transfers: The Case of Guatemala
Background
PhD in Sociology in 2014 after several years of professional work and consultancy within development finance and structured trade finance. Between January 2015-December 2018, Director of Studies, Lund University Masters of Science Programme in International Development and Management (LUMID). Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Migration and Development (CMD), Princeton University between August 2015 and July 2016. Research Fellow at the Office of Population Research, CMD, Princeton University (awarded on May 16, 2016). Affiliated with the Center for Economic Demography, Lund University since November 5, 2018. Associate professor (Docent) since July-2021.
Research Projects
- The Role of International Migrant Organizations in Labour Market Integration in Sweden. Funded by a Project Grant from Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation. Collaboration with OPR, Princeton University. Contact: johans [at] princeton [dot] edu.
- Conditionality and Behavioural Change in New Social Policy: Effects of Retracted Study Allowances in Sweden. Contact: johan [dot] sandberg [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se.
- Support for Immigration in Post-2015 Refugee Crisis in Sweden. Contact: johan [dot] sandberg [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se.
- Global Quest for Talent: STEM-migration in the Swedish Labour Market. Collaboration with the Center for Economic Demography (CED), Lund University. Contact: johan [dot] sandberg [at] soc [dot] lu [dot] se.
- Global Dynamics of Social Policy Collaborative Research Centre, University of Bremen. Funded by the German Research Foundation.