Karoline Kolstad
@karolinekolstad.bsky.social
Assitant professor in Political Science at Aarhus University. Doing research on citizen-state interactions.
I use micro-level register data on bureaucrat-client interactions on the full population of unemployed people.
Surprisingly, immigrants of non-Western descent receive the same amount of meetings as the Danish ethnic majority throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, just as they had before.
Surprisingly, immigrants of non-Western descent receive the same amount of meetings as the Danish ethnic majority throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, just as they had before.
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I use micro-level register data on bureaucrat-client interactions on the full population of unemployed people.
Surprisingly, immigrants of non-Western descent receive the same amount of meetings as the Danish ethnic majority throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, just as they had before.
Surprisingly, immigrants of non-Western descent receive the same amount of meetings as the Danish ethnic majority throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, just as they had before.
I also exploit that the lockdown caused an asymmetrical development in unemployment across municipalities due to differences in industry composition.
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I also exploit that the lockdown caused an asymmetrical development in unemployment across municipalities due to differences in industry composition.
Empirically, I investigate how bureaucrats at Danish unemployment agencies reacted to a 20% workload increase associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark in 2020. I exploit that the lockdown was unexpected and triggered a steep and sudden increase in unemployment from one day to the next.
September 16, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Empirically, I investigate how bureaucrats at Danish unemployment agencies reacted to a 20% workload increase associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in Denmark in 2020. I exploit that the lockdown was unexpected and triggered a steep and sudden increase in unemployment from one day to the next.