Johan Vikström

Johan Vikström

Research Fellow

Joined RFBerlin as a Research Fellow in November 2025

Research area
Labor Economics Health Economics Econometrics

About Johan Vikström

Johan Vikström is researcher at IFAU and professor in economics at Uppsala University. His research interests include active labor market policies, econometric methods and health economics. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Econometrics, Economic Journal and Journal of Public Economics. Read more on his personal webbpage

Discussion papers

April 2026

Motivating Job Seekers. A Field Experiment

Bart Cockx, Johan Egebark, Greet van Hoye, Emilie Videnord, Johan Vikström

March 2026

The Heterogeneous Earnings Impact of Job Loss Across Workers, Establishments, and Markets

Susan Athey, Lisa K. Simon, Oskar Nordström Skans, Johan Vikström, Yaroslav Yakymovych