Working Paper 2010 no.6 This paper addresses potential effects of immigration on wage income of predominantly low income Swedish born workers, for which the estimates show mainly a positive relationshi

Sociologisk Forskning, vol 54, no 4, pp 377–381. Abstract Motivated by a recent controversy over handshaking, a survey of the personal networks of young Swedes (n=2244) is used to describe greeting prac

Panel discussion - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

The greatest problems of the 21st century - climate change, terrorism, poverty and global inequality, among others – are not the result of external threat, but predominantly the result of human cho

Q&A - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

The greatest problems of the 21st century - climate change, terrorism, poverty and global inequality, among others – are not the result of external threat, but predominantly the result of human cho

Åsa Wikforss - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

www.iffs.se Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at Stockholm University. She is currently working with the research project Knowing One’s Own Thoughts. The greatest problems of the 21st centur

Completed: Social networks and immigrant integration

Is it possible to improve immigrants' social and economic situation by matching them with native Swedes? This projects seeks the answer to that question.

Julian Savulescu - The Future of Humans. Moral Bioenhancement

www.iffs.se Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford. His areas of research include the ethics of genetics, research ethics, medical ethics, sports ethics and the analy

If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which of these countriesextent come from for-profit providers.

Senior lecturer Göran Duus-Otterström at the University of Gothenburg. ABSTRACT A common view in the discussion of climate change is that the polluter should pay. The costs associated with combatting cl

Main speaker: Julian Savulescu, Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics A seminar on the use of medicine to improve moral behaviour and solve the greatest problems of the 21st century. The greatest problem