S´ebastien Willis
sebastien-willis.github.io · Research interests: labour economics, applied econometrics ·
Citizenship: French, Australian · Updated June 2024
Employment and Affiliations
Researcher 2024–present
Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University
Research Coordinator 2022–present
Uppsala Immigration Lab, Uppsala University
Research Affiliations
Uppsala Center for Labor Studies 2022–present
Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, ANU 2024–present
Past employment
Postdoctoral Researcher 2021–2024
Department of Economics, Uppsala University
Education
PhD in Economics, Cum Laude 2021
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
MRes in Economics 2015
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
MSc in Economics 2014
Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Bachelor of Arts (German, Philosophy) 2012
Australian National University, Australia
Bachelor of Economics, First Class Honours 2011
Australian National University, Australia
Research Papers
Working papers:
“Workplace segregation and the labour market performance of immigrants,” CESifo
Working Paper No. 9895 (R&R, Labour Economics)
“Professional networks and the labour market assimilation of immigrants” (with Olof
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Aslund and Mattias Engdahl) IFAU Working Paper 2024:9
“The dynamics of ethnic segregation in the German labour market,” available at SSRN:
https://ssrn.com/abstract=4223158
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Teaching
Econometrics I, Uppsala University 2023, 2024
PhD in Economics, with Johan Vikstr¨om
Labour Economics, Australian National University 2023
Undergraduate, guest lecturer
Stata Boot Camp, Barcelona School of Economics 2017–2020
Masters in Economics, main instructor
Foundations of Probability, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2016–2018
Undergraduate (in Catalan), TA to Mireia Besal´u and Elisa Al`os
Topics in Microeconometrics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2017
Advanced undergraduate (in Catalan), TA to Jaume Garc´ıa
Long-term Persistence in Development, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2017
PhD in Economics, TA to Luigi Pascali
Survey Methods, Barcelona School of Economics 2016, 2017
Masters in Public Policy, TA to Laura Crespo and Laura Hospido
Foundations of Statistics, Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2014
Undergraduate (in Catalan), TA to Eulalia Nualart
Grants and awards
Handelsbankens forskningsstiftelser 2023
Travel grant; 30,000 SEK
Stiftelse Siamon 2023
Travel grant; 12,000 SEK
Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2015–2019
Teaching assistant scholarship
Australian Treasury 2011
Honours year scholarship, 5000 AUD
Conference and seminar presentations
2024 (4 talks + 2 conferences)
Research School of Economics, Australian National University; Crawford School of Public Policy, Aus-
tralian National University; 8th Linked Employer-Employee Data Workshop (scheduled); European
Association of Labour Economists (scheduled); IFAU (scheduled); University of Copenhagen (sched-
uled)
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2023 (3 talks + 4 conferences)
Research School of Economics, Australian National University; 12th ifo Dresden Workshop on Labor
Economics and Social Policy; J¨onk¨oping International Business School; III Catalan Economic Society
Conference; UCLS annual conference; European Association of Labour Economists; Stockholm School
of Economics
2022 (1 talk + 4 conferences)
Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University; Spring Meeting of Young Economists,
Universit´e d’Orl´eans; CEMIR Junior Economist Workshop on Migration Research, ifo Institute; UCLS
annual conference; 12th annual conference on Immigration in OECD countries, CEPI-OECD
2021 (1 talk + 4 conferences)
Department of Economics, Uppsala University; Symposium of the Spanish Economic Association; Eu-
ropean Association of Labour Economists (online); Asian & Australasian Society of Labour Economics
(online); Association of Swedish Development Economists
Research visists
Research School of Economics, ANU April 2023
Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU February 2024
Deparment of Economics, Monash University March 2024
Professional activities
Referee service:
Labour Economics, Journal of Comparative Economics, Scandinavian Journal of Eco-
nomics
Conference reviewer:
Spring Meeting of Young Economists (2023, 2024).
Languages
Natural: English (native), French (native), German, Catalan, Spanish, Swedish, Italian
Artificial: R, Stata/Mata, Python, Matlab, Bash, L
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