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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Historically, the family and, more generally, gender policies have been a central issue in both nationalist and far-right rhetoric. This holds particularly for Germany, where the so-called male-breadwinner model and the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Abstract Gender discrimination is often regarded as an important driver of women’s disadvantage in the labour market, yet earlier studies show mixed results. However, because different studies employ different ...
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(Book / Bok / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)This book explores how gender equality, a central part of the Nordic imaginary, is used in the political communication of Nordic states. The analyses presented move beyond conventional images and discourses of Nordic gender- ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Previous research offers limited understanding as to why sickness absence is higher among women than among men, but attitudes and norms have been suggested as plausible explanations of this gender gap. The purpose of the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Background: Most studies show that women have considerably higher rates of sickness absence than men, but little is known on how the gender gap has developed over time. Methods: Data are taken from the EU Labour Force ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1995)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)This study analyses the association between the gender of managers and sickness absence in workplaces. It uses Norwegian administrative register data which are broadly representative of the private workforce. Previous ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Women have much higher sickness absence rates than men. One prominent hypothesis is that this is a result of gender segregation in the labour market and the differences in employment or working conditions that follow from ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Across Europe, children of low-educated migrants are entering high-status occupations. While the research literature has accounted for the determinants of this social mobility, few studies have explored how social mobility ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Since the turn of the century, anti-Islamic sentiments have become increasingly present in public debate. Scholars conducting research on the far right have even warned that the extreme has become mainstream. A key aspect ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2006)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract There is a growing interest in how social conditions moderate genetic influences on education [gene–environment interactions (GxE)]. Previous research has focused on the family, specifically parents’ ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)Despite the recent planetary turn that has swept through gentrification research, the theoretical barycentre remains pegged to a few strongholds located in the global north-west. Against this background, this essay offers ...
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Geographies of Oil Dependency: Changing spaces of political interaction over oil in Ecuador and Peru (Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2022)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The literature on divided (or contested) cities has expanded rapidly during the past decade, with a handful of iconic sites presiding over the long list of cities wounded by conflict, violence or general unrest. In this ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Abstract Climate change, biodiversity loss, the COVID-19 pandemic, and growing inequity and poverty are some of the key global challenges facing us today. These multiple and interacting crises have elicited growing appeals ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Gig- og plattformøkonomi utgjør et relativt marginalt fenomen i Norge, og Norden for øvrig, men har likevel funnet fotfeste i deler av arbeidslivet som kan karakteriseres som den nordiske arbeidslivsmodellens «randsoner». ...
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(Research report / Forskningsrapport / PublishedVersion, 2019)The paper compares two prominent approaches to global gender justice; Alison Jaggar’s ‘distributive’ approach and Nancy Fraser’s ‘participatory’ approach. It argues that both theories have contributed valuably to develop ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The increased salience of environmental concerns, first and foremost global warming, is one of the key developments of contemporary Western European politics. Still, the effects of global warming issues on electoral outcomes, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1998)