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Jan Helmdag is an Assistant Professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) and Managing Director of the Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database. His work focuses on taxation, social policy design, and political economy, with particular emphasis on income inequality mitigation through institutional data analysis. SPIN's collaboration with the Democracy, Environment, Migration, Social Policy, Conflict, and Representation (DEMSCORE) infrastructure highlights his cross-domain engagement.
Research Interests: Helmdag investigates how social policy architecture affects income inequality, notably through his Benefit Dualization Index (BDI) which quantifies welfare state disparities between labor market insiders and outsiders. His EU pension reform analysis reveals systemic prioritization of financial sustainability over benefit adequacy and gender modernization in socio-economic governance.
Helmdag has conducted comparative studies across OECD countries on unemployment benefit dynamics and active labor market policies, demonstrating conditioned policy learning among welfare regimes. His 2024-26 FORTE-funded project on Swedish social rights dualization builds upon his extensive work in benefit replacement rate analysis and policy indicator development.
