Martin Kolk

I am a demographer with an interest in all major demographic processes (fertility, mortality, union formation, and migration), often with an intergenerational component. I am also interested in if the

The New World - Martin Hägglund

The Institute for Futures Studies together with Aftonbladet Kultur present The New World - a podcast series where great thinkers think (and talk) about the most pressing issues concerning our future.

Population and Development Review,  Vol. 43, Issue 3, pp. 491-512, https://doi.org/10.1111/padr.12091 REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS AND socioeconomic status are inherited across generations, both in contemporar

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies,Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Martin Van Hees, professor of Moral and Political Philosophy at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Register

Place: At the Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13, Stockholm, or online. REGISTER HEREResearch seminar with Markus Furendal, Post-Doc in Political Science, Stockholm University, and Martin

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm or online  Research seminar with Marte Mangset,Director at Centre universitaire de Norvège à Paris andAssociate professor, Department

This paper outlines recent developments in private provision of elder care services and examines arguments and actors for increasing private financing, both supportive and dissenting. The purpose is t

Martin Kolk: Low-fertility countries are responsible for almost all of the CO2 emissions

Do we need to reduce population growth to address the climate challenge? From the perspective that each person contributes to green house gas emissions and resource consumption, it is a logical though

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, or online.Research seminar with Martin O'Neill, Professor of Political Philosophy, University of York.Register here AbstraMy talk addresses the questions of the size of the public sector in a just society, and the range of goods and services which should be decommodified, and provided to citizens outside of market relationships, in such a society. I examine some of the different answers given to these questions by (a) liberal egalitarians (particularly Rawls) and (b) social democrats and democratic socialists (particularly Esping-Andersen). Then, making use of the work of theorists including Waheed Hussain and Ralph Miliband, I examine the plausibility of a 'left Rawlsian' position, which would marry socialist insights about the functions of public provision with a liberal egalitarian account of the principles of justice, in order to defend an institutional model of a just society which would embody a form of liberal democratic socialism."

Social Science Research, Volume 61, pp. 234-250. doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2016.06.017 Abstract Youth unemployment is a contemporary social problem in many societies. Youths often have limited access