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10 January, 2014

Family dynamics of immigrants in Sweden

Kirk Scott, the Institute for Futures Studies and Lund University Union formation and entry into parenthood are perhaps the most important transitions to adulthood. While much is known about the family

Kirk Scott, the Institute for Futures Studies and Lund University
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15 November, 2013

Agent-Based Modeling and Techno-Social Systems

Advances in Complex Systems, Vol. 16, Nos. 4 & 5, World Scientific Publishing Company. DOI: 10.1142/S0219525913030021

Type of publication: Books | Dirk Helbing, Thomas Grund (Eds.)
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24 March, 2014

Unemployment more important than immigration status for risk of divorce

The elevated risk of divorce among certain immigrant groups can be explained by socioeconomic factors. Stress due to immigration status does not seem to elevate the risk for divorce. These are some of

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15 February, 2016

Completed: Agenta

Ageing Europe: An application of National Transfer Accounts (NTA) for explaining and projecting trends in public finances (AGENTA). The AGENTA project aims at explaining the past and forecasting the fu

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11 January, 2016
Anders Ekholm

Anders Ekholm

I have had the position as vice president and advisor at the Institute for Futures Studies and before that I worked as head of analysis at the Ministry of Social Affairs, with research concerning our

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23 March, 2015

Law or fist? An interview on the Social Democrats and political resistance

How do you organize political resistance? Is it reasonable to use non-democratic methods to protect a democratic society? And how do you get everyone in a large organization to agree on a common strat

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04 July, 2016

How religiosity is transmitted to new generations and what inequality has to do with it

Many things that we deeply care about are related to the topic of religion: gender norms, sexual morals, work ethics but also altruism, charity and community. It is therefore an important question to Contrary to what you might expect, religion continues to play an important role in countries all over the world, as the figure shows.

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