Women in leadership positions face more sexual harassment

Power in the workplace does not stop women’s exposure to sexual harassment. On the contrary, women with supervisory positions are harassed more than women employees.

New study from the Swedish Institue for Social Research

Singles without children new risk group for poverty in Sweden

While the risk of poverty among single parents has long been known to be a problem, a new study from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) shows that single persons without children also faced a drastic increase in poverty risk. The researchers can now link this increase in poverty to cutbacks in the unemployment insurance.

Read about the study

What happens to children with parents in prison?

Approximately one out of ten children who come from a poor background experience at least one time during childhood an arresting of their parent. There is an ongoing study at SOFI on how the life chances of these children are affected.

Watch the video about the study

In Memoriam Åsa Rosén

Professor Åsa Rosén, who worked at the Institute for Social Research (SOFI) from 1999 to 2016, has passed away at the age of 57.

In Memoriam Åsa Rosén

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Two new postdocs to SOFI September 1 2019-09-03
Two PhD Student Positions at SOFI 2019-11-26
Labor market inclusion in theory and practice 2019-11-26
ALL-INCLUSIVE? Cohesion and exclusion in work-life change 2019-11-26
SOFI-researchers participate in Pre-Pride panel at Stockholm University 2019-11-26
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SOFI reseachers in the media

The new SOFI study showing a dramatic increase of the risk of ending up in poverty for single persons without children has been noticed in several news media, among others Swedish Radio Vetenskapsradion, Göteborgs-Posten and TT Nyhetsbyrån.
"A woman who earns less than her partner or doesn’t work at all when they get married is significantly more likely to get divorced if her career suddenly takes off". The Quartz magazine writes about a study by our professor Johanna Rickne and Olle Folke at Uppsala University. Read the article here.

Latest publications

Anne Boschini, Kristin Gunnarsson, Jesper Roine, (2020), ”Women in top incomes – Evidence from Sweden 1971–2017”, Journal of Public Economics 181
Folke, Olle, and Johanna Rickne. (2020) All the Single Ladies: Job Promotions and the Durability of Marriage. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12 (1): 260-87
Böhlmark, Anders, and Alexander Willén (2020) Tipping and the Effects of Segregation. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12 (1): 318-47.
Folke, O., Rickne, J., Tanaka, S., & Tateishi, Y. (2020). Sexual Harassment of Women Leaders. Daedalus, 149(1), 180-197.
Charlotta Magnusson (2019) Flexible time – but is the time owned? Family friendly and family unfriendly work arrangements, occupational gender composition and wages: a test of the mother-friendly job hypothesis in Sweden, Community, Work & Family
Anna Sandberg, Karin Hederos et al. (2019), Exposure to half-dressed women and economic behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Volume 168, 2019.
Adam Altmejd et al. (2019) Predicting the replicability of social science lab experiments. PLoS ONE 14(12): e0225826.
Lindquist, Matthew J. and Yves Zenou (2019) “Crime and networks: ten policy lessons,” Oxford Review of Economic Policy 35(4), Winter 2019, 746-771.
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Susanne Alm, Kenneth Nelson, Rense Nieuwenhuis (2019) The Diminishing Power of One? Welfare State Retrenchment and Rising Poverty of Single-Adult Households in Sweden 1988–2011, European Sociological Review,
Nieuwenhuis, R., Van Lancker, W., Collado, D., & Cantillon, B. (n.d.). Trends in Women’s Employment and Poverty Rates in OECD Countries: A Kitagawa–Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition. Italian Economic Journal, 25
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Hellborg, Sabina, Förbudet mot bristande tillgänglighet - några frågor om ansvar för åtgärder och genomförande, i Labour Law and the Welfare State (Arbetsrätt och välfärdsstaten), 2019, Eds. Laura Carlson, Petra Herzfeld Olsson and Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni, Iustus förlag s 153-168
Hellborg, Sabina, Diskrimineringsersättning som påföljd i och utanför arbetsrätten, i Lavalgenerationen, 2010-talets doktorsavhandlingar i arbetsrätt, red. Erik Sjödin och Niklas Selberg, Iustus förlag s 269-288
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Hellborg, Sabina, Liability for Medical Injuries in Sweden, Journal de Droit de la Santé et de l’Assurance Maladie nr 23 2019 s 72-76
Hjalmarsson, R. & Lindquist, M. J. 2019. ”The Causal Effects of Military Conscription on Crime” The Economic Journal 129(622), 2522-2562.
Young-hwan Byun (2019) Government Redistribution and Public Opinion: A Matter of Contention or Consensus?, International Journal of Sociology, 49:3, 204-221
Evertsson, M. & Grunow, D. 2019. “Swimming against the tide or going with the flow? Stories on work-care practices, parenting norms and the importance of policies in a changing Europe”, in Grunow, D. and M. Evertsson (eds.), New Parents in Europe: Work-Care Practices, Gender Norms and Family Policies. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing
Çelikaksoy, A. & Wadensjö, E. 2019. “Refugee youth who arrived in Sweden as unaccompanied minors and separated children: Education and labour market well-being”, Nordic Journal of Migration Research, Vol. 9(2), pp. 179–200.
Erlandsson, A. 2019. “Do Men Favor Men in Recruitment? A Field Experiment in the Swedish Labor Market”, Work and Occupations, 46(3), 239–264.
Nelson, K., Nieuwenhuis, R., & Alm, S. (2019). Sweden: Adjoining the Guarantee Pension with NDC. In R. Holzmann, E. Palmer, R. Palacios, & S. Sacchi (Eds.), Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Vol. Volume 1. Addressing Marginalization, Polarization, and the Labor Market (pp. 215–239).