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Time for the sixth round of SWEOLD

The SWEOLD survey has been running since 1992 and aims to investigate changes in the living conditions of the population over 75. The researchers behind the study can now describe developments over the past 30 years, a period during which there have been clear changes in welfare.

Read about the SWEOLD survey

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How racial wage discrimination of football players ended in England

A new study in economics used data from the English Premier League to investigate the impact of the so-called “Bosman ruling”, and found that racial discrimination disappeared – but not for non-EU players.

New study from Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)

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"It is important that people's own voices are heard"

The seventh round of the Living Standards Survey (LNU) at SOFI is currently contucted. Carina Mood, Professor of Sociology, talks about the work of collecting people's own voices about their living conditions.

Watch the video

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Friendships across class boundaries can influence political views - regardless of your own class

The class background of people in your social circles seems to have an effect on your political attitudes – regardless of which social class you belong to yourself.

New study from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI)

More news from SOFI

New research funding for SOFI 2021-10-20
We welcome five new employees at SOFI 2021-10-01
Sten-Åke Stenberg has been re-employed as professor emeritus 2021-09-07
SWS seminar schedule for the fall of 2021 2021-08-31
Charlotta Magnusson appointed Deputy Director of SOFI 2021-08-27

SOFI researchers in the media

PODCAST: Matthew Lindquist, professor of economics at SOFI, discusses his new research on the health effects of prison, in the latest episode of the Probable Causation podcast.
"Economists: We need to track the virus". Erik Lindqvist, professor of economics at SOFI, has together with five other economists published a debate article at SvD Debatt (in Swedish).
Johannna Rickne and Olle Folke at SOFI have together with American and Japanese researchers published a study showing that women are exposed to sexual harassment at work even when they are in leadership positions, which got attention in both Swedish media such as SvD, DN and Aftonbladet, as well as international media like CBS News and The Independent.
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.