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03 September, 2024

Declining birth rates - should we worry?

Are declining birth rates one of the biggest threats to humanity? Among others, Elon Musk and Donald Trump's vice-presidential candidate JD Vance seem to think so. But Karim Jebari disagrees. In the p, he explains why we don't need to worry so much.

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10 January, 2025

Changes in Immigrant Population Prevalence and High Violent Crime Rates in Swedish Municipalities

Journal of International Migration and Integration Abstract Global evidence indicates minimal connection between immigration and crime. Nordic research, however, has  been generally carried out on indiv

Type of publication: Journal articles | Sarnecki, Jerzy , Sofia Wikman, Lars Westfelt, My Lilja, Emy Bäcklin Beckley, Amber , Sofia Wikman, Lars Westfelt, My Lilja, Emy Bäcklin Mondani, Hernan , Sofia Wikman, Lars Westfelt, My Lilja, Emy Bäcklin Rostami, Amir , Sofia Wikman, Lars Westfelt, My Lilja, Emy Bäcklin
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10 May, 2004

Welfare Enhancing Marginal Tax Rates: The Case of Publicly Provided Day Care

This paper highlights the role of tax funding of day care for children and demonstrates that the optimal income tax should face all agents with the cost of the needed day care in order to earn further

Type of publication: Working papers | Sören Blomquist and Vidar Christiansen
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08 August, 2005

Welfare States, Social Structure and the Dynamics of Poverty Rates. A comparative study of 16 countries, 1980-2000

This paper attempts to explain temporal and spatial variation of poverty rates in terms of unemployment insurance and socio-demographic factors, and test the ‘convergence hypothesis’ of the poverty ra

Type of publication: Working papers | Olof Bäckman
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01 September, 2015

Tobias Hübinette: The modern history of Swedish whiteness and Swedish race thinking

Tobias Hübinette is Associate Professor in Intercultural Education and a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Karlstad University. ABSTRACTThis presentation aims at understanding today's situati

Tobias Hübinette is Associate Professor in Intercultural Education and a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Studies at Karlstad University.
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07 July, 2025
Serious recreational sports as health and wellness promotion activities at work

Serious recreational sports as health and wellness promotion activities at work

The overall purpose of our project is to investigate the consequences of demanding forms of sports and recreational races as health and wellness promotion activities at work. What norms, conditions and prerequisites surround them? 

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17 September, 2024

Pitcovski’s explanation-based account of harm

Philosophical Studies Abstract In a recent article in this journal, Eli Pitcovski puts forward a novel, explanation-based account of harm. We seek to show that Pitcovski’s account, and his arguments in

Type of publication: Journal articles | Risberg, Olle , Carlson, E. & J. Johansson
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01 January, 2011

Understanding and exploiting information spreading and integrating information technologies

2011. Journal of Computer Science and Technology 26: 829-836. AbstractOur daily life leaves an increasing amount of digital traces, footprints that are improving our lives. Data-mining tools, like recomm

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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09 August, 2008

Technology, National Identity and the State: Rise and Decline of a Small State’s Military-Industrial Complex

The following paper traces the emergence of a Swedish military-industrial complex through its heydays to its eventual decline,  to identify factors which distinguish the Swedish case. The paper argues

Type of publication: Working papers | Niklas Stenlås
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05 March, 2024
Salad Hilowle

Salad Hilowle

Salad Hilowle (born in 1986, Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Stockholm-based artist who traces historical narratives, excavates and ponders the impact of the African diaspora on history and how it permeates

Artistic researcher
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