This article addresses the matter of “urban spillover” in rural population development, i.e. how urban localities tend to push a ring of diffuse urban growth outwards as they expand in area. The data

This paper analyzes the time it takes for Swedish college graduates to start a full-time job that lasts for six month or more, the study period being 1991–1999. The results show that the risk of unemp

This literature review describes the demographic development in France, Italy, Spain and Portugal from the 1960s. The general pattern is delayed transition to adulthood and first birth, decline of fer

Modern Vikings in the East. Sweden’s Role in 1990’s Russian Economic Reforms: Institutions, Elite Networks, and Informal Practices

What role did Swedish institutions, experts, and elites play in the economic and political development in post-Soviet Russia, with corruption, tax evasion and the emergence of the oligarchy as a result?

The Swedish pension reform of the 1990s is here studied from a power-political perspective focusing on the Social Democratic Party. Despite a strong heritage in the “income security principle”, guidel

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Marte Mangset,Director at Centre universitaire de Norvège à Paris andAssociate professor, Department

Marte Mangset: Shifts in sectorial power and party affinities: Post-ministerial careers in Norway

Research seminar with Marte Mangset, Director at Centre universitaire de Norvège à Paris and Associate professor, Department of sociology and human geography, University of Oslo. Abstract The paper ex

Plats: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4 trappor i Stockholm Register here Research seminar with Janine R. Wedel, University Professor, Schar School of Policy and Government,George Mas

Janine Wedel: Can civil society counter oligarchic capitalism?

Full title: Russia, Ukraine, and our world of competing visions. Can civil society counter oligarchic capitalism? Research seminar with Janine R. Wedel, University Professor, Schar School of Policy an

European Journal of Population Abstract This study examines how the sibling constellation in childhood is associated with later fertility behaviour of men and women in Sweden. Administrative register da