Janis Umblijs

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Position Senior Research Fellow
Degree PhD
Contact +47 925 27 810 janis.umblijs@samfunnsforskning.no

Janis Umblijs is a labour economist whose research interests include the integration of migrants, the effect of technological change on the labour market and the role of housing on individual welfare. Janis has a PhD from Trinity College Dublin. He has worked on projects that look at topics such as, labour market outcomes of refugees, discrimination against the children of migrants, and how housing affects education outcomes. Before Janis started at ISF, he was a Senior Economist at the consultancy Oslo Economics where he worked on labour market evaluation projects for the Norwegian labour ministry, Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation and the Norwegian Labour and Welfare administration.

Tags: Working Life, Migration and integration

Publications

  • Umblijs, Janis; Drange, Ida & Orupabo, Julia (2023). Ethnic Diversity and Firm Performance in Norway. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. 13(4), p. 39–66. doi: 10.18291/njwls.137274. Full text in Research Archive
  • von Simson, Kristine & Umblijs, Janis (2020). Housing conditions and children's school results: evidence from Norwegian register data. International journal of housing policy. doi: 10.1080/19491247.2020.1814190. Full text in Research Archive
  • von Simson, Kristine & Umblijs, Janis (2019). Vanskeligstilte på boligmarkedet – dynamikk og tilstandsavhengighet. Tidsskrift for boligforskning. 2(2), p. 84–111. doi: 10.18261/issn.2535-5988-2019-02-05. Full text in Research Archive
  • Batista, Catia & Umblijs, Janis (2016). Do migrants send remittances as a way of self-insurance? Oxford Economic Papers. 68(1), p. 108–130. doi: 10.1093/oep/gpv049.
  • Umblijs, Janis & Batista, Catia (2014). Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship: evidence from a representative immigrant survey. IZA Journal of Development and Migration. 3(17). doi: 10.1186/s40176-014-0017-4.

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  • Umblijs, Janis; Orupabo, Julia & Drange, Ida (2022). The relationships between ethnic diversity and profitability in Norwegian organisations. Institutt for samfunnsforskning. Full text in Research Archive
  • Umblijs, Janis; Østbakken, Kjersti Misje & Røed, Marianne (2021). Lønns- og karriereutvikling blant høyt utdannede i Norge, 2004–2019. Institutt for samfunnsforskning. Full text in Research Archive
  • Barth, Erling; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål & Umblijs, Janis (2020). How Robots Change Within-Firm Wage Inequality. IZA Institute of Labor Economics.
  • Umblijs, Janis (2020). Kunnskapsoppsummering om deltakelse i arbeidslivet for kvinner med innvandrerbakgrunn. Institutt for samfunnsforskning. Full text in Research Archive
  • Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål & Umblijs, Janis (2019). Flyktningers deltagelse i arbeid og utdanning, før og etter introduksjonsordningen. Institutt for samfunnsforskning. Full text in Research Archive
  • von Simson, Kristine & Umblijs, Janis (2019). Boforhold og velferd. Institutt for samfunnsforskning. Full text in Research Archive
  • Umblijs, Janis; von Simson, Kristine & Mohn, Ferdinand A (2019). Boligens betydning for annen velferd : en gjennomgang av nasjonal og internasjonal forskning. Institutt for samfunnsforskning. Full text in Research Archive
  • Skorge, Øyvind Søraas & Umblijs, Janis (2017). Lønns- og karriereutvikling blant høyt utdannede i Norge, 2004–2014. Institutt for samfunnsforskning. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Umblijs, Janis & Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Can A New Name Open Closed Doors? Foreign-Sounding Names and Immigrant Earnings.
  • Hermansen, Are Skeie & Umblijs, Janis (2023). Can A New Name Open Closed Doors? Foreign-Sounding Names and Immigrants’ Labor Market Careers.
  • Østbakken, Kjersti Misje & Umblijs, Janis (2023). Sick of Robots – Heterogeneous Effects of Industrial Robots on Sickness Absence.
  • Schøne, Pål; Røed, Marianne; Barth, Erling & Umblijs, Janis (2023). Does Firm-Automation Reduce Offshoring?
  • Barth, Erling; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål & Umblijs, Janis (2023). Does Firm-Automation Reduce Offshoring?
  • Barth, Erling; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål & Umblijs, Janis (2023). Robots and employment.
  • Umblijs, Janis; Barth, Erling; Schøne, Pål & Røed, Marianne (2022). Robots and Employment a Firm Level Approach.
  • Umblijs, Janis; Barth, Erling; Røed, Marianne & Schøne, Pål (2022). How Robots Change Within-Firm Wage Inequality .
  • Sørvoll, Jardar; Astrup, Kim Christian; Bliksvær, Trond; Brattbakk, Ingar; Hansen, Inger Lise Skog & Markussen, Simen [Show all 13 contributors for this article] (2022). Forskningssenteret BOVEL, det nye knutepunktet for bolig- og velferdsforskere i Norge. En presentasjon av arbeidsprogrammet for 2021–2024. Tidsskrift for boligforskning. 5(1). doi: 10.18261/tfb.5.1.4.
  • Barth, Erling; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål & Umblijs, Janis (2020). Robots and employment.
  • von Simson, Kristine & Umblijs, Janis (2019). Housing conditions and school attainment: evidence from Norwegian register data.
  • von Simson, Kristine & Umblijs, Janis (2019). Housing conditions and school attainment: evidence from Norwegian register data.

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