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Research seminar - Lena Halldenius Moa Petersen: The value of cash
Research seminar with Lena Halldenius, professor of human rights studies at Lund University, and Moa Petersén, associate professor at Division of ALM and Digital Cultures at Lund University. Abstract
Lena Halldenius & Moa Petersén: The value of cash. Economic injustice on an increasingly digitized payment market
Research seminar with Lena Halldenius, professor of human rights studies at Lund University, and Moa Petersén, associate professor at Division of ALM and Digital Cultures at Lund University. AbstractThe
Comment on Bratsberg, Raaum and Røed: Educating children of immigrants: Closing the gap in Norwegian schools
Nordic Economic Policy Review. Economics of Education, No. 1:253-260, 2012
Education and Research in Times of Population Ageing
The goals of growth and competitiveness as promoted by the European Union are discussed in the context of forecasts claiming the European population to be declining in size and growing increasingly ol
Health and Wealth: the Contribution of Welfare State Policies to Economic Growth
Unlike economic theories and strategies of the last twenty years, this paper claims that health helps to create wealth, i.e. not only the other way around. It is argued that a human capital approach w
Lena Wängnerud: Why Women’s Political Representation affect Levels of Corruption. Trends in Bribery and Public Service Delivery Across European Regions
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Lena Wängnerud, Professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Her work involves t
The Reverse Gender Gap in Ethnic Discrimination: Employer Stereotypes of Men and Women with Arabic Names
International Migration Review, s. 1-28. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12170 Abstract We examine differences in the intensity of employer stereotypes of men and women with Arabic names in Sweden by testing how much
Four Phases in Demographic Transition: Implications for Economic and Social Developments in Sweden 1820-2000
In contrast to earlier research, historical and contemporary comparisons to Swedish demographical changes show that the age group upon which the population growth is based—either child, adult, maturit

Labour market policies against the odds? Job finding among participants in ESF projects in comparison with the Public Employment Service
Research report 2014/1, 115 p. The European Social Fund (ESF) has complemented the Swedish Employment Service’s work assisting job seekers in finding new jobs, by financing projects specifically design

Hur vet vi om arbetsmarknadspolitiken verkligen fungerar? IF i Almedalen 2012 del 7
Paneldebatt: David Olsson, Arbetsförmedlingen, Erik Mellander, IFAU, Sven Jansson, Svenska ESF-rådet, Katharina Thorén, Lena Nekby, Joakim Tranquist.