Tapio Salonen, Professor in Social Work, Malmö University A dramatic shift has characterized the Swedish housing policy in later years; from strictly state regulated to one of the most market driven in

Working paper 2017 nr 1. In this paper, we analyse the recent history and current resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been seen as the archetypical social democratic w

Completed: Can the implementation of artificial intelligence in the recruitment process enhance the inclusion of disadvantaged groups? A study of Swedish companies

The use of AI in job recruitment is said to make the process both more efficient and less discriminatory. But is this really true? This project will study the effects of using this new tool.

Bo Rothstein: Why No Economic Democracy in Sweden: A Counterfactual Approach

Companies, that are owned and/or governed by their employees are on average performing better and have higher productivity than firms that are governed by outside capitalists/owners/investors and they

Bo Rothsteinhold the August Röhss Chair in Political Science at University of Gothenburg, a position established by a donation to the university in 1901. He has also held positions at Oxford Universit

Democracy was once defined so that neither women nor poor could vote. Nowadays this sounds absurd and it’s obvious that both women and poor constitute as important parts of society as rich men, and sh

Johan Mellberg

I am Adjunct Associate Professor in Finance at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen (NHH) and researcher at the Institute for Futures Studies. I received my PhD in 2020.  My research is focused o

If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which  of these countrie

More and more businesses use AI – artificial intelligence – in recruitment. But what happens when they do so? The research project Can the implementation of artificial intelligence in the recruitment p, led by sociologist Moa Bursell, can give us some answers.

The (New) Case for Wage-Earner Funds

Research seminar with Markus Furendal, Post-Doc in Political Science, Stockholm University, and Martin O'Neill, Professor of Philosophy at University of York. Abstract In our presentation we make the