Janis Umblijs

About

Janis Umblijs is a labour economist with research interests in housing economics, migration, and technological change. He holds a PhD from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and has worked on projects investigating the impact of housing conditions on school results, the integration of refugees in the labour market, discrimination of Norwegian immigrants, and the effects of robotization on wage inequality.

Umblijs has been working as a researcher since 2015, initially as a senior researcher at the Institute for Social Research. He is currently the research director for the Department for Ageing Research and Housing Studies.

Fields of study

Academic disciplines

Economics

Research groups

Ageing Research and Housing Studies

Research projects

Ongoing research projects

HOUSINGWEL – Centre for Housing and Welfare Research
HOUSINGWEL aims to be a hub for research on housing and welfare in Norway.

Scientific publications

Umblijs, Janis ; Schøne, Pål; Finseraas, Henning (2024). Automation and worker organisation. Applied Economics Letters.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2024.2363272

Umblijs, Janis ; Drange, Ida ; Orupabo, Julia (2023). Ethnic Diversity and Firm Performance in Norway. 27 p. Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies. Vol. 13.
https://doi.org/10.18291/njwls.137274

von Simson, Kristine ; Umblijs, Janis (2020). Housing conditions and children's school results: evidence from Norwegian register data. 26 p. International journal of housing policy.
https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2020.1814190

von Simson, Kristine ; Umblijs, Janis (2019). Vanskeligstilte på boligmarkedet – dynamikk og tilstandsavhengighet. Tidsskrift for boligforskning. Vol. 2.
https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2535-5988-2019-02-05

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis (2016). Do migrants send remittances as a way of self-insurance?. Oxford Economic Papers. Vol. 68.
https://doi.org/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. Vol. 3.
https://doi.org/10.1186/s40176-014-0017-4

These publications are obtained from Cristin. The list may be incomplete

Research reports

Umblijs, Janis ; Orupabo, Julia; Drange, Ida (2022). Sammenhenger mellom etnisk mangfold og lønnsomhet i norske virksomheter. ISBN: 978-82-7763-724-2. 190 p. Institutt for samfunnsforskning.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2988146

Umblijs, Janis ; Østbakken, Kjersti Misje; Røed, Marianne (2021). Lønns- og karriereutvikling blant høyt utdannede i Norge, 2004–2019. ISBN: 978-82-7763-705-1. 81 p. Institutt for samfunnsforskning.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2771058

Barth, Erling; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål; Umblijs, Janis (2020). How Robots Change Within-Firm Wage Inequality. 25 p. IZA Institute of Labor Economics.

Umblijs, Janis (2020). Kunnskapsoppsummering om deltakelse i arbeidslivet for kvinner med innvandrerbakgrunn. ISBN: 978-82-7763-662-7. 75 p. Institutt for samfunnsforskning.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2641207

Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål; Umblijs, Janis (2019). Flyktningers deltagelse i arbeid og utdanning, før og etter introduksjonsordningen. ISBN: 978-82-7763-630-6. 147 p. Institutt for samfunnsforskning.
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2597916

von Simson, Kristine ; Umblijs, Janis (2019). Boforhold og velferd. ISBN: 978-82-7763-619-1. 91 p. Institutt for samfunnsforskning.
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2579826

Umblijs, Janis ; von Simson, Kristine ; Mohn, Ferdinand A (2019). Boligens betydning for annen velferd : en gjennomgang av nasjonal og internasjonal forskning. ISBN: 978-82-7763-617-7. 85 p. Institutt for samfunnsforskning.
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2579810

Skorge, Øyvind Søraas ; Umblijs, Janis (2017). Lønns- og karriereutvikling blant høyt utdannede i Norge, 2004–2014. 57 p. Institutt for samfunnsforskning.
http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2445674

These publications are obtained from Cristin. The list may be incomplete

Dissemination

Drange, Ida ; Umblijs, Janis (2025). Through tick and thin? Labour market responses to spouse’s severe payment problems. Sosiologforeningens vinterseminar. Norsk sosiologforening.

Schøne, Pål; Cools, Sara; Umblijs, Janis (2024). Segregation and Neighborhood Concentration of Economic Deprivation. BOVEL -konferansen. OsloMet.

Umblijs, Janis ; Østbakken, Kjersti Misje (2024). Sick of Robots - Heterogeneous effects of industrial robots on sickness absence. 36th EALE Conference. European Association of Labour Economists .

Umblijs, Janis ; Østbakken, Kjersti Misje (2024). Sick of Robots - Heterogeneous effects of industrial robots on sickness absence. 37th annual conference of the European Society for Population Economics . European Society for Population Economics .

Umblijs, Janis ; Hermansen, Are Skeie (2024). Can A New Name Open Closed Doors? Foreign-Sounding Names and Immigrant Earnings. European Association of Labour Economists Conference. European Association of Labour Economists .

Umblijs, Janis ; Hermansen, Are Skeie (2023). Can A New Name Open Closed Doors? Foreign-Sounding Names and Immigrant Earnings. ECSR Annual Conference 2023 in Prague. European Consortium for Sociological Research (ECSR).

Hermansen, Are Skeie; Umblijs, Janis (2023). Can A New Name Open Closed Doors? Foreign-Sounding Names and Immigrants’ Labor Market Careers. NIFU quantitative research group seminar. NIFU .

Østbakken, Kjersti Misje; Umblijs, Janis (2023). Sick of Robots – Heterogeneous Effects of Industrial Robots on Sickness Absence. CORA 2023 - Conference on Robots and Automation. Goethe University.

Schøne, Pål; Røed, Marianne; Barth, Erling; Umblijs, Janis (2023). Does Firm-Automation Reduce Offshoring?. Annual Conference of the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE) . European Society for Population Economics (ESPE).

Barth, Erling; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål; Umblijs, Janis (2023). Does Firm-Automation Reduce Offshoring?. The European association of Labour Economists (EALE). EALE.

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These publications are obtained from Cristin. The list may be incomplete