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12 September, 2011

Dropping out in Scandinavia. Social Exclusion and Labour Market Attachment among Upper Secondary School Dropouts in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden

Most researchers in the field are in agreement that a diploma from apprenticeship-based vocational training gives a smoother school-to-work transition than a diploma from school-based vocational train

Type of publication: Working papers | Olof Bäckman, Vibeke Jakobsen, Thomas Lorentzen, Eva Österbacka & Espen Dahl
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11 October, 2005

Stability or Change in the Swedish Labour Market Regime

This paper will relate the worsened situation for low educated in general, and youth in particular, to two institutional factors: a changed organisation of vocational education in upper secondary scho

Type of publication: Working papers | Jonas Olofsson
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15 April, 2019

The making of an egalitarian elite: school ethos and the production of privilege

The British Journal of Sociology 2019, Volume 70, Issue 2 Abstract Research on privilege and education often focuses on institutions that are elite in a rather traditional way, for example schools that i

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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11 September, 2020

National Culture Diversity in New Venture Boards: The Role of Founders' Relational Demography

Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 13(3), 410-434. Abstract This study explains the conditions under which new venture boards are less or more culturally diverse in terms of their directors' country of b

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26 August, 2021

Internalising and externalising problems during adolescence and the subsequent likelihood of being Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) among males and females: The mediating role of school performance

SSM - Population Health, Volume 15, 2021 AbstractMental health problems are associated with a greater risk of being Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) during young adulthood. Yet evidence

Type of publication: Journal articles | Plenty, Stephanie , ; Charlotta Magnusson; Sara Brolin Låftman
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03 November, 2021

Internalising and externalising problems during adolescence and the subsequent likelihood of being Not in Employment, Education or Training: The mediating role of school performance

Social Science & Medicine – Population Health, 15, 100873 Abstract Mental health problems are associated with a greater risk of being Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) during young adu

Type of publication: Journal articles | Plenty, Stephanie , , Magnusson, C. & S. Brolin Låftman
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14 December, 2023

Peer acceptance and rejection during secondary school: Do associations with subsequent educational outcomes vary by socioeconomic background?

Child Development Abstract Research shows that peer relationships are associated with students' school adjustment. However, the importance of advantageous and disadvantageous factors for students' educa

Type of publication: Journal articles | Plenty, Stephanie ,
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15 May, 2013

Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010).  This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,

Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland
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11 January, 2016
Frida Rudolphi

Frida Rudolphi

I am a researcher in sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University and affiliated to the Institute for Futures Studies. My research primarily concerns inequality i

PhD, Sociology
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12 May, 2022
Dreamers

Dreamers

Why are educational inequalities by gender and immigrant background not those we would expect given students’ aspirations, confidence, and stress?

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