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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)The author analyzes the relationship between unionization and absences due to sickness in Norway using register data covering the entire population employed in the private sector during 2003 to 2007. A few previous studies ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The European Union (EU) is considered to be a unique economic and political union that integrates most European countries. This article focuses on the cultural aspect of European integration, which has been increasingly ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)In the immediate aftermath of terrorism, references to ‘our values’ as a source of unity become a substantial part of public discourse. Leaders, the media, and the public emphasize ‘values’ to express that ‘we’ are united ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1999)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Nigerians once trusted power cables to be safe and compliant with international standards. Today, however, the Nigerian market is rife with substandard cables, which may overheat, shoot out sparks, and cause fires. Power ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)This article focuses on social closure by way of marital homogamy within the upper class. It offers new insights into the social structuring of romantic partnerships, while drawing on research on assortative mating and ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract The upswing in finance in recent decades has led to rising inequality, but do downswings in finance lead to a symmetric decline in inequality? We analyze the asymmetry of the effect of ups and downs in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)The upswing in finance in recent decades has led to rising inequality, but do downswings in finance lead to a symmetric decline in inequality? We analyze the asymmetry of the effect of ups and downs in finance, and the ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2011)South African cities regularly experience service delivery protests, which often target local governments who are blamed for non-delivery and non-participation. The legitimacy crisis of local democracy can be understood ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2016)Cities are increasingly organised according to socio-spatial divisions in which groups with similar characteristics live in the same areas. This social polarisation is associated with differences in living conditions, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Through a Rancièrian reading of the political as a performative staging of egalitarian dissent, this article conducts an event analysis of the 2013 Brazilian “June Days” uprisings. It identifies and challenges two broad ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)Selv om klassebegrepet står sentralt i sosiologien, er det også omdiskutert. En rekke sosiologer har betvilt at klasse er av betydning i «senmoderne samfunn». I 1987 kom debatten til Norge, i form av boka med den megetsigende ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Since 2011, we have witnessed both the worst terror attack ever on Norwegian soil as well as an attempted act of terror. Both actions were conducted by right-wing extremists, who were radicalized by inspiration from, but ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion, 2004)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract With over one million people arriving in Europe as refugees, the UN Refugee Agency declared 2015 “the year of Europe’s refugee crisis.” This article explores the meaning-making process surrounding the “refugee ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2001)In a normal population sample of Norwegian adolescents, six per cent reported to have been victims of violent victimisation during the last year. The sample consisted of three cohorts of adolescents from Oslo (10812 persons) ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)English Summary This dissertation monograph investigates village-level solar power supply, which is one of the potential solutions for providing access to basic electricity services for people who are not served by ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)The extent to which successive immigrant generations experience economic progress is a fundamental yardstick of assimilation and future ethnic stratification in the increasingly diverse societies of the rich West. In this ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)For en politiker hjelper det lite å ha en indre overbevisning dersom den ikke kan formidles til andre, eksempelvis i språk, tekst eller bilder. I dette kapitlet drøftes sistnevnte formidlingsform, nærmere bestemt visuell ...