American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 89(1), 40-51. DOI: 10.1037/ort0000369  Abstract Bisexual individuals experience poorer mental health than other sexual minority individuals. One explanation for this

The ongoing refugee crisis in Europe, along with calls for intervention in conflicts in Syria and elsewhere, has pushed discussion of duties to rescue into the political spotlight. At the same time, t

Social Science Research, vol. 98 Abstract Advanced labor markets are typically stratified by origin with a majority ethnic group occupying more desirable (high-skilled) positions and subordinated ethnic choices reinforce these patterns. This would be the case if employers were more reluctant to hire subordinate minority job applicants for high-skilled positions than for low-skilled occupations. We use experimental correspondence audit data derived from 6407 job applications sent to job openings in the Swedish labor market, where the ‘foreignness’ of the job applicants has been randomly assigned to otherwise equally merited job applications. We find that negative discrimination of job applicants with ‘foreign’ names is very similar in the high-skilled and low-skilled segments of the labor market. There is no significant relative ethnic difference in chances of callbacks by skill level. Because baseline callback rates are higher in high-skilled occupations, discrimination however translates into a significantly larger percentage unit callback difference between ‘natives’ and ‘foreigners’ in these occupations, in particular between male job applicants. That is, the 

Ernst Fehr On the 7th of December 2012 the tipped Nobel Prize-candidate and Professor of Economics Ernst Fehr came to visit the Institute for Futures Studies in order to hold the seminar "The Weave of

Seminar with Säde Hormio, researcher in Practical Philosophy and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Helsinki. REGISTER Abstract The amount of greenhouse gases that can still be emitted to

Is it possible to reduce individual implicit bias in organizational settings?

A study of social assistance officers Implicit bias reduction is a popular form of antibias training when organizations engage their employees in diversity training. It remains popular, despite limite

Säde Hormio: Individual emissions, equality and the state

Seminar with Säde Hormio, researcher in Practical Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. ABSTRACT The amount of greenhouse gases that can still be emitted to the atmosphere is very limited if global

The paper argues that it is not sufficient to restrict calculations of effects of social reforms on individual welfare to income streams, but necessary to model individual behavior and thereafter calc

Scientific Reports 14 Abstract Trust encourages members of communities to cooperate and provide public goods. However, the literature has yet to fully investigate how high and low trusting communities de

The project aims to evaluate the ethical consequences, on an individual and collective level, of implicit bias that causes ethnic discrimination.