Michael Osborne, Exeter College, Oxford. We examine how susceptible jobs are to computerisation. To assess this, we begin by implementing a novel methodology to estimate the probability of computerisat

Pp. 183-202 in B. Kogut (Ed.) The small world of corporate governance. MIT Press.

Register: The seminar is free of charge, but you need to register, REGISTER HERE The Inner World of Research - On Academic Labor is a book about the misery and joy of life as a researcher. It deals with ess

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(10), 2143, doi.org/10.3390/ijerph15102143  Abstract Stress, and stress-related health complaints, are common among young people, espe

Pp. 315-336 in The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science, edited by Hans Joas and Barbro Klein. Leiden: Brill.

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Volume 46, Issue 12, pp 2421–2445. Abstract Boys engage in notably higher levels of resistance to schooling than girls. While scholars argue that peer processes contrib

Frontiers in Psychology, 11:236 Abstract Gender differences in achievement exhibit variation between domains and between countries. Much prior research has examined whether this variation could be due t

Dreamers

Why are educational inequalities by gender and immigrant background not those we would expect given students’ aspirations, confidence, and stress?

A Future of Expulsions

Saskia Sassen was invited to Stockholm on the 25th of November 2014 to talk about her latest book. She looks at the world and sees expulsion. The expulsion of people from their jobs, their homes, even

Virginie Pérotin, Professor of Economics at Leeds University Business School. The effect of employee empowerment on job satisfaction: An empirical analysis of the interplay of demands, control and equa.