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09 September, 2008

Interpreting Europe and US Labor Market Differences: the Specificity of Human Capital Investments

This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model favors

Type of publication: Working papers | Etienne Wasmer
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30 January, 2014
Labour market policies against the odds? Job finding among participants in ESF projects in comparison with the Public Employment Service

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

Type of publication: IFFS reports | Ryszard Szulkin, Lena Nekby, Magnus Bygren, Clara Lindblom, Kenisha Russell-Jonsson, Ragnar Bengtsson, Erik Normark
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04 July, 2023
Completed: Preferences for coordination - their function and evolutionary foundation

Completed: Preferences for coordination - their function and evolutionary foundation

Using behavioral game theory, this project aims to provide a deeper understanding of how collective action decisions are made and why people make the choices they do.

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24 January, 2025
David Lindqvist

David Lindqvist

I am a PhD student in Practical Philosophy at Linköping University and am affiliated with the project Ethics of Coordination at the institute. My research is mainly in Normative Ethics, specifically in P

Master's degree in Practical Philosophy
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26 November, 2018
Johan E. Gustafsson

Johan E. Gustafsson

I am a Senior Lecturer at the University of Gothenburg and a Lecturer at the University of York. My research focuses on theoretical problems in ethics, value theory, and political philosophy. I also w

Associate Professor, Philosophy
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25 September, 2019
Joe Roussos

Joe Roussos

I am a researcher in philosophy at the Institute for Futures Studies. I did my PhD at the London School of Economics, with a thesis entitled Policymaking under scientific uncertainty. My research concer

PhD, Philosophy
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30 September, 2014

Climate change: Life and death

John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy The international community has agreed on the aim of avoiding dangerous interference with the climate system. Determining what level of interference i

John Broome, White's Professor of Moral Philosophy
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25 April, 2023
Lambros Roumbanis

Lambros Roumbanis

My research focuses on the organization of expert judgments, evaluation technologies, selection mechanisms, and complex decision-making processes. More specifically, I study how organizations deal wit

Associate Professor in Sociology
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08 July, 2021
Isabela Hazin

Isabela Hazin

I have a bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, and a master’s degree in Human Evolution and Biology from the University of Coimbra, Portugal. At the Institute , led by and . This project is concerned with the question of how people's opinions on moral issues change over time. More specifically, if this change is mediated by arguments based on Moral Foundations – in a nutshell, whether moral positions (e.g., "against the death penalty") that are more strongly linked to harm and fairness arguments (e.g., "otherwise someone is hurt") spread more easily than those less strongly linked to such arguments. My main job is to help collect, clean, and analyze moral opinion data.

Master's degree in Human Evolution and Biology
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13 November, 2018

Social consensus influences ethnic diversity preferences

Forthcoming in Social Influence. Published online: DOI: 10.1080/15534510.2018.1540358. Abstract There is widespread segregation between workplaces along ethnic lines. We expand upon previous research on

Type of publication: Journal articles | Bursell, Moa , , Fredrik Jansson
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