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"Unique values among workers in tech"
In a new study of political values among workers in the American tech industry researchers found a ”unique” dominance of left-liberal values and anti-establishement thinking. We asked Niels Selling, p
The scope and limits of implicit bias training: An experimental study with Swedish social workers
Social Science Information Abstract Implicit bias reduction has become an increasingly popular feature of so-called ‘diversity training’ in both public and private organizations. It remains popular, des
Research seminar with Oskar Nordström Skans: The Heterogeneous Earnings Impact of Job Loss Across Workers, Establishments, and Markets
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, and online Research seminar with Oskar Nordström Skans, Professor of Economics, Uppsala University. REGISTERAbstractUsing g
Does Immigration Hurt Low Income Workers? Immigration and Real Wage Income below the 50th Percentile, Sweden 1993-2003
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
The Importance of Education for the Reallocation of Labor. Evidence from Swedish Linked Employer-Employee data 1986-2002
The paper examines how job- and worker flows have been distributed both on an aggregate level and across educational levels using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy from 1986 to
Virginie Pérotin: Are more democratic firms more productive?
Virginie Pérotin, Professor of Economics at Leeds University Business School ABSTRACTFirms run by their employees are often thought to be more productive than other firms because of the effects of work
From Transfers to Individual Responsibility: Implications for Savings and Capital Accumulation in Taiwan and the United States
A demographically realistic model incorporating life cycle saving motives is used to simulate effects of changing a transfer-based old-age support to a funded system, applied to the cases of Taiwan an
The Importance of Age for the Reallocation of Labor: Evidence from Swedish Linked Employer-Employee Data 1986-2002
Using employer-employee data covering the whole Swedish economy from 1986 to 2002, this paper examines how job- and worker flows have been distributed across age groups. It finds that the flows vary b
Johan Westerman
Johan Westerman is a researcher who obtained his PhD in sociology from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) in 2020. His dissertation, entitled Motives Matter, investigated the intrinsic mo
Information dynamics shape the sexual networks of Internet-mediated prostitution
2010. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:5706-5711. Abstract Like many other social phenomena, prostitution is increasingly coordinated over the Internet. The online behavior affects the offline activity; the r
