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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Although fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children’s experience with larger sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. With the sex composition of the two ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2017)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
Innen samfunnsforskningen er sosial bakgrunn en av hovedforklaringene på utdanning- og yrkesoppnåelse i voksen alder. Samtidig har en lang forskningstradisjon vist at det er forskjeller mellom søsken i samme familie i ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)
The study findings show not only the complexity of structural and local factors influencing farmers’ food insecurity but also their responses to these factors in two sites: the Fero-two Peasant Association (coffee-based ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Qualitative interviews with Latvian and Swedish agency nurses in Norway reveal that the two groups have quite different experiences of integration in the Norwegian labor market. Aiming to add knowledge about differentiation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The objective of this article is to explore how the mobility power of nurses (the ability to move between employers or leave the labor market) contributes to changing relations between health institutions and temporary ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
The means through which socioeconomic status is transmitted across generations has long been of central interest to scholarship on inequality. We explore multi-generational reproduction of socioeconomic status through ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
Studies typically find large variation in labor market outcomes not only between educational levels, but also among individuals with a higher education. However, the importance of different types of horizontal divisions ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
This study examines the links between parental education and students’ choice of field of study in Norwegian higher education. In our interpretation of the results, we suggest a status group perspective that integrates ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)
In light of the growing importance of finance ministries and the financial dimension in policy-making, opening up the “black box” of fiscal bureaucracies is more warranted than ever. Our paper addresses the following ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
Birth order causes social inequality between siblings. In Western countries, earlier-born perform better than later-born. In non-Western countries, however, earlier-born generally perform worse than later-born. We use ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract This paper examines the types of work that jurists have historically undertaken and maps how opportunities for legal practice have been shaped by social origins across three centuries: after constitutional ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2024)
«Jeg trodde jeg aldri ville ha noe å gjøre med UDI igjen, men plutselig er de tilbake og kaller meg utlending». Dette uttalte «Muhammed», en informant intervjuet til denne avhandlingen. Utlendingsdirektoratet (UDI) mistenkte ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The introduction present key research questions addressed by the Special Issue: What is the character of the symbolic reproduction of racial, ethnic and/ or national boundaries and how are they interwoven into international ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Hospitals had to adapt quickly when the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in January 2020. This article analyses the organisation of the crisis management efforts of Oslo University Hospital (OUH). The analysis is based on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Since 2007, Scandinavia has emerged as a new destination for Romanian Roma engaging in circular migration for begging and street work. Using policy documents from parliamentary debates in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, survey ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
I avhandlingen Nabolagseffekter og foreldres nabolagstrategier: oppvekstmulighetenes geografi i den delte byen tar byforsker Ingar Brattbakk for seg hvordan nabolaget påvirker barn og unges livssjanser og hvilken rolle ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Asia has become the world’s largest beer-consuming region, and Southeast Asia sees the strongest growth in demand. While the Asian beer industry attracts investments from global and regional capital and is undergoing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article examines the dynamics of the climate movement’s (CM) engagement within global civil society (GCS), focusing on how this relates to its evolving commitment to anti-colonial climate politics and the wider, ongoing ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Educational expansion has raised the influence of sorting across postsecondary educational fields on children's future life chances. Yet, little is known about horizontal ethnic stratification in the choice of field of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract This paper examines how science advice can provide policy recommendations in a trustworthy manner. Despite their major political importance, expert recommendations are understudied in the philosophy of science and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article examines Norwegian lower-secondary students who enrol in fast-track programs in mathematics. These fast-track programs are designed to accommodate high-performing students who want a faster learning pace than ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The thesis submitted by Marcin Sliwa is an ethnographic study of the relationship between uncertainty and informality as they are expressed in urban planning. Based on physical and digital fieldworks in informal settlements ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)
The thesis investigates risk assessment and standardization by standardsetting organizations (SSOs), key governing practices in many societies today. It does so by studying the development of a security risk assessment ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
A critical stream of scholarship from North America and Europe, on employer preferences for low-wage labour migrants, suggest that the discourse of ‘the migrant work ethic’ works as a euphemism for the exploitability of ...
(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2015)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Cities are in transition towards more sustainable mobilities, and many city cores are beyond peak car. However, the suburbs are still largely car based. Although planning principles for compact centres and transit-oriented ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Prior scholarship has documented and tried to explain growing inequalities in individual wealth holdings—especially between homeowners and renters—but has not considered the role of residential position in the rural-urban ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
In this article we interrogate how University of Sweden (UoS), the leading Work-integrated learning (WIL) university in Sweden, represents WIL publicly, discussing this in relation to higher education’s changing role within ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Educational attainment is a key indicator of status and opportunity in meritocratic societies. However, it is unclear how educational expansion has affected the link between cognitive abilities and educational ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Individuals make comparisons with their parents which determine their intergenerational mobility perceptions, yet very little is known about the areas used for intergenerational comparison and whether these matter for ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Standards developed by standard-setting organisations (SSOs) – sometimes labelled private rulemaking – are part of larger practices of governance in most societies yet are underinvestigated from a policy process ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
To what extent is the underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in politics due to ethnic bias? While this question has interested researchers for a long time, direct evidence of ethnic bias in party-controlled nomination ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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The all-out Russian invasion of Ukraine commencing in February 2022 has been characterized by systematic violence against civilians. Presumably, the commanders of Russian forces believe that, for example, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Rusreformutvalget ble nedsatt av Solberg-regjeringen i 2018 og anbefalte å avkriminalisere bruk av narkotika. Vi plasserer reformforslaget i en historisk kontekst og belyser debatten med vekt på hvordan forskning ble brukt ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract In this paper, we build on a long research effort aimed at identifying the specific conditions, functional and structural characteristics of urban areas, that produce different levels of residential segregation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract The aim of this paper is to address the dynamics of contemporary cultural capital by interrogating what counts for young people as valuable cultural resources. Considerable support is given in later scholarship ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract During the last few decades, the human rights paradigm has shifted the normative status of disabled people, providing, in principle, the right to full and equal participation. Particularly in neoliberal economies, ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This paper first investigates why the main strands in conventional subcultural and post-subcultural research have neglected the collective and material aspects of subcultural practice. It then investigates more recent ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The literature on how family status and health in later life relate is extensive. Although research has focused on the health effects of grandparenthood and grandparenting, explorations of whether ageing without children ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Stor formue kan være en betydelig kilde til makt over økonomiske investeringer, men også gjennom påvirkning i politikk og samfunnsliv. Norge og andre skandinaviske land betraktes gjerne som spesielt egalitære, men ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Large-scale epidemiological studies have documented that many children and adolescents are exposed to different forms of victimization experiences. However, such population-based studies have rarely examined how specific ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Based on a case study of taxi platforms in Oslo, Norway comprised of interviews with drivers and an ethnographic fieldwork working a driver, this article explores the platformization of the Norwegian taxi industry and the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract For decades, fraud-based denaturalization was hardly used in Norway. In the 2015–2016 “refugee crisis,” however, the right-wing government decided to reinforce efforts to expose “citizenship cheaters.” This article ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The 15-minute city theory has recently become a popular paradigm in urban development. It claims that everyone should have access to the essential services, facilities and green spaces within a 15-minute walk. This article ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Human geography has a history of engaging with place-based-quality products through a variety of concepts such as terroir, geographical indicators (GIs), and fictive places. While the efforts necessary to construct a “taste ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Science is under attack and scientists are becoming more involved in efforts to defend it. The rise in science advocacy raises important questions regarding how science mobilization can both defend science and promote its ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Rather than a surprising and illogical move to leave oil in the ground for international compensation, Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative should be understood as an outcome of ongoing struggles of interests within the state ...
(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 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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Welfare generosity is a multidimensional concept that refers to both the access to benefits and the levels of benefits (in terms of the amounts paid to recipients). However, in analyses of public support ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The contributions in this Forum analyse the Russian war against Ukraine from the micro perspective of everyday life, conveyed by scholars who have been impacted at a variety of personal levels. Framed within the existential ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Research either focused on self‐interest or left–right ideology to explain support for demanding active labour market policies (ALMPs). This article focuses instead on how attitudes towards these policies are ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Many states have recently re-discovered citizenship deprivation as a tool to exclude undesirable citizens. Scholars have primarily discussed the implications of this policy (re)turn from perspective of the state and the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Every tenth Norwegian child has been in contact with the child welfare services (CWS) before age 18. This paper describes the variation in background characteristics of CWS children with different types of services and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Objective Physical attractiveness is often studied in relation to various life outcomes, but there is a lack of research on its links to intergenerational educational, occupational, and income mobility. Individuals ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Ever since labour geography first started demonstrating workers’ ability to shape geographies, geographers have problematised the agency of labour. This article responds to a recent intervention by Strauss (2020a; ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The expectancy-disconfirmation model (EDM) explains satisfaction with public services as a combination of service expectations and perceived performance. We study how satisfaction in turn affects political trust. We mimic ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
School teachers’ sickness absence has been shown to affect student achievement in the short run. However, we know little about whether socioeconomic backgrounds may compensate for reductions in instructional quality and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This paper investigates the effect of attending immigrant-dense schools on student outcomes, which consists of the joint effect of immigrant peers and school context. The sorting of students into schools is not random, and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
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Three reforms each appealing to a different logic of (re)distribution are strongly politicized in contemporary welfare states: means-tested benefits, demanding activation policies and basic income schemes. ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article explores key determinants of the intention to work from home (WFH) among U.S. adults in the early phase of the pandemic. Leveraging nationally representative survey data collected in the initial stages of the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Family formation is fostered by circumstances of plannability and economic and social stability. Conversely, as documented in previous literature, employment instability can hamper fertility decisions. Based on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Global value chains (GVCs) hold important potential for transformations to sustainability in a context of climate change. Yet, their potential for sustainability may depend on whether, and how, promising individual innovations ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Mapping daily mobile experiences is a way to counter-map the mainstream status quo in transport planning and thus produce alternate ‘truths’ of mobility. Studies on the microgeographies of daily mobility and situational ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Blant utdanningsforskere har det oppstått bred enighet om at utdanning for bærekraftig endring krever elevsentrerte og erfaringsbaserte undervisningsformer. Heller enn å formidle kunnskap om miljø og bærekraft, argumenteres ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Resilience to climate change demands a transformation in social and political relations, but the literature has largely neglected how these are embedded within legacies of conflict. We explore the roles socioenvironmental ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article analyses the phenomenon of ‘invisible’ seasonal farm migrants, drawing on the case of labour migration to Norwegian agriculture. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews conducted between 2017 ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Human rights have become the dominant framework for understanding and resolving the marginalization of disabled people. Particularly since the 2007 introduction of the CRPD, many countries have formally adopted policies ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Individuals who have congenital conditions or become disabled early in life tend to have poorer educational and occupational outcomes than non‐disabled individuals. Disability is known to be a complex entity with ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
It is acknowledged that generous welfare states can provide better outcomes to their populations in terms of objective and subjective indicators of well-being, yet there is little comparative evidence of the role that the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
This article considers an alternative paradigm for responding to the climate emergency. Drawing on Fierke’s ideas on quantum complementarity and wuwei, or actionless action, it considers what quantum social science and ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Secularization theory allows for transitory religious revivals under certain conditions, such as extreme societal crises or state weakness. The country of Georgia has witnessed the largest religious revival of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Objectives There is only limited evidence suggesting that physical attractiveness and individuals' actual health are causally linked. Past studies demonstrate that characteristics related to physical attractiveness ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
Abstract Responses to sustainability challenges are not delivering results at the scale and speed called for by science, international agreements, and concerned citizens. Yet there is a tendency to underestimate the ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
The expansion of internet is likely to influence adolescents’ academic outcomes. Yet, how internet coverage impacts students’ educational performance remains poorly understood. To address this major knowledge gap, this ...
(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)
Norway is considered to be one of the most egalitarian countries in the world. But even though egalitarian perceptions have been dominant over the last 20 years, class inequalities have either remained stable or been on ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
In recent years, a series of global crises have triggered a heightened politicization of international policy efforts and a questioning of the role of global forums in the management of these crises. This article investigates ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
The stubborn persistence of health inequalities in the otherwise egalitarian Nordic countries is a continual source of political and scholarly befuddlement. Both when it comes to morbidity and mortality outcomes, socially ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Abstract Perceptions that others will contribute their fair share are fundamental to the legitimacy of the political system. To better understand how these perceptions take shape beyond the influence of political narratives ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This article delves into the transnational ideational influences that shape the discourse and actions of actors who mobilize against migration to Norway. While anti-immigrant sentiments often revolve around the preservation ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
We examine how trade union actors at various scales of organisation and influence have engaged in the just transition agenda in Norway. The Norwegian model of industrial relations represents a democratic and highly ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
Research has emphasised the importance of far-right trans-nationalism, in terms of both ideology and practice. Yet, theliterature lacks a comprehensive analysis of how far-rightactors themselves reflect their transnational ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)
This article examines challenges to the construction of climate solidarity between different social actors in and beyond the petroleum industry, using the vantage point of oil workers. Theoretically, we use the notion of ...