Kenneth Tommy NelsonProfessor
About me
I am professor of sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), Stockholm University. My area of expertise is in social policy, well-being, and comparative analysis. I am heading the Social Policy Unit at SOFI, and I am the principal director of the SPIN-database (www.sofi.su.se/spin), and various other projects (see below).
I am one of the co-chairs of the European Social Policy Analysis Network (ESPAnet), and board member of the Foundation for International Studies of Social Security (FISS). I chair the Nordic Sociological Association.
Below, you can download my CV.
CURRENT PROJECTS PI
The SPIN Database: An Update and Expansion
Financing: 9 000 000 SEK, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Period: 2019-2021
The purpose of this project is to maintain, update and substantially expand the internationally renowned Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) Database (www.sofi.su.se/spin). The new improved SPIN database will continue to offer unique possibilities for state-of-the-art analyses on the causes and consequences of welfare states and social policy that are difficult to obtain elsewhere. The SPIN database includes a wide range of institutional indicators on the financing, eligibility criteria and quality of various types of social policy programs. The SPIN database has now reached the stage of development where new resources are required to continue pioneer welfare state analyses, improve dissemination of data and contribute to new breakthroughs in research. We have successfully finished a number of pilot projects on the conceptualization and measurement of social policy in areas where new data are urgently needed. In the continued development of the SPIN database, we will not only update existing data. Based on our pilot projects, we will construct new SPIN data models. We will also initiate new pilot projects to continue push further the frontiers of welfare state research, as well as improve the web interface and dissemination of SPIN. No Swedish government agency are responsible for collecting similar comparative data as in SPIN. SPIN does not include any ethically sensitive individual level data.
Adequate housing conditions: the role of housing benefits in Sweden and abroad
Financing: 4 630 000 SEK, the Swedish Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE)
Period: 2019-2021
Housing benefits exist in nearly all European countries. They are usually put in place to reduce housing costs and improve housing conditions of low-income households. Despite the prominence of housing benefits in governments’ anti-poverty policies, inadequate housing conditions, such as overcrowding and insufficiencies in basic facilities, continue to be a widespread problem also in Sweden. Are housing benefits simply too low to effectively combat inadequate forms of housing, or are the processes leading to poor housing conditions more complex? The purpose of this project is to assess the role of housing benefits for inadequate housing conditions. We assume that the role and functioning of housing benefits cannot be understood in isolation, but needs to be analyzed in conjunction with rental market regulations and more general social policy structures. The working hypothesis is that integrated rental systems and comprehensive forms of income protection in periods of work incapacity, improve the possibilities of housing benefits to combat poor housing conditions. Recent developments in Sweden illustrate the need to analyze such interplays in policy. Although Sweden has one of the most generous housing benefits in Europe, the share of households reporting problems with their housing conditions has increased. Using comparative micro-level survey data for a large number of European countries together with new macrolevel data on housing benefits, while integrating quantitative and qualitative analyses, the proposed project will make an important contribution to existing knowledge.
Political and distributive consequences of the de-carbonized welfare state
Financing: 5 992 000 SEK, the Swedish Research Council (VR)
Period: 2021-2024
Many environmental policies currently being enacted to slow climate change have distributive - and thereby political implications. Policy instruments such as carbon taxes and fees tend to be regressive, as they weigh more heavily on the poor who spend a larger share of their budgets on energy. Without a redistributive social agenda, countries may be caught in a vicious cycle of green policy adjustments, increased inequalities, and an erosion of political support. This project analyzes how distributional effects of de-carbonizing policies are moderated by redistributive social policies, and how this in turn affects the support of incumbent governments. We develop a new methodology forestimating individual-level distributional effects of environmental policies in countries with different social policy systems, and a novel analytical approach for estimating the effects on political support using a combination of policy and poll-of-polls data. The project generates new knowledge on how countries can develop socially sustainable de-carbonizing policies.
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
Nelson, K., Nieuwenhuis, R., Yerkes, M.A. (eds.). 2022. Social Policy in Changing European Societies: Research Agendas for the 21st Century. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
2017. The Generational Welfare Contract: Justice, Institutions and Outcomes. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. (With Simon Birnbaum, Tommy Ferrarini, and Joakim Palme)
Nelson, K. 2012. Minimum Income Protection in Flux. HoundMills: Palgrave MacMillan. (With Ive Marx)
2012. Sveriges socialförsäkringar i jämförande perspektiv. En institutionell analys av sjuk-, arbetsskade- och arbetslöshetsförsäkringarna i 18 OECD länder 1930 till 2010 (Swedish Social Insurance in Comparative Perspective. An Institutional Analysis of Sickness, Work Accident and Unemployment Insurance in 18 OECD countries 1930-2010). Underlagsrapport nr. 10 till den parlamentariska socialförsäkringsutredningen (S 2010:04). Stockholm: Social Ministry. (With Tommy Ferrarini, Joakim Palme, and Ola Sjöberg.
2009. European Social Models, Protection and Inclusion. Research Report 2009/1. Stockholm: Institute for Future Studies. (With Joakim Palme, Ola Sjöberg, and Renate Minas)
2003. Fighting Poverty: Comparative Studies on Social Insurance, Means-tested Benefits and Income Redistribution. Dissertation Series No. 60. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research.
Journal Articles
2022. The political determinants of housing benefits. European Sociological Review (in press).
2021. Towards a new consolidated framework for analysing benefit coverage. Journal of European Social Policy 31(3): 352-362.
2020. The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database. International Journal of Social Welfare 29(3): 285–289.
2020. Student support and tuition fee systems in comparative perspective. Studies in Higher Education. In Press.
2020. The Social Policy Indicators (SPIN) database. International Journal of Social Welfare 29(3): 285–289.
2019. The Diminishing Power of One? Welfare State Retrenchment and Rising Poverty of Single Adult Households in Sweden 1988-2011. European Sociological Review 36(2): 198–217.
2017. Lower unemployment benefits and old-age pensions is a major setback in social policy. Sociologisk forskning 54(4): 287-292.
2017. Health trends in the wake of the financial crisis—increasing inequalities? Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 45(18): 22–29.
2016. Social transfers and poverty in middle- and high-income countries – A global perspective. Global Social Policy 16(1): 22-46.
2014. ’Decomposing the effect of social policies on population health and inequalities: An empirical example of unemployment benefits’, Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 42(7): 635-642.
2014. Welfare states and population health: The role of minimum income benefits for mortality, Social Science & Medicine 112: 63-71.
2014. Unemployment insurance and deteriorating self-rated health in 23 European countries, Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health 68: 657-662.
2014. Health Care Determinants in Comparative Perspective: The Role of Partisan Politics for Health Care Provision, International Journal of Comparative Sociology 54(5-6): 444-465.
2013. Levels and targeting of social transfers: counteracting poverty in a global perspective, Journal of Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences 9(7): 17-27.
2013. Social citizenship rights and social insurance replacement rate validity: pitfalls and possibilities, Journal of European Public Policy 20(9): 1251-1266.
2013. Social Assistance and EU Poverty Thresholds 1990–2008. Are European Welfare Systems Providing Just and Fair Protection Against Low Income?, European Sociological Review 29(2): 386-401.
2013. Social service decline and convergence: How does health care fare?, Journal of European Social Policy 23(1): 102-116.
2013. ‘The effect of social protection and income maintenance policies on health and health inequalities’, European Journal of Public Health 23(1). (With Olle Lundberg, Monika Åberg Yngwe, Johan Fritzell, Jenny Bacchus Hertzman, Karolina Bergqvist, Tommy Ferranini, Johan Rehnberg, and Ola Sjöberg)
2012. ‘Counteracting material deprivation: the role of social assistance in Europe’, Journal of European Social Policy 22(2): 148-163.
2010. ‘Social assistance and minimum income benefits in old and new EU democracies’, International Journal of Social Welfare, 19(4): 367–378.
2009. ‘A Framework for Comparing Social Protection in Developing and Developed Countries: The Example of Child Benefits’, International Social Security Review 62(1): 91-115. (With Ingrid Esser, Tommy Ferrarini, and Ola Sjöberg)
2008. ‘Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective 1990-2005’, International Journal of Health Services 38(1): 103-124.
2008. ‘Towards a European Social Model? Trends in Social Insurance among EU countries 1980-2000’, European Societies 10(5): 787-810. (With Ingalill Montanari and Joakim Palme)
2007. ‘Universalism versus Targeting: The Vulnerability of Social Insurance and Means-Tested Minimum Income Protection in 18 countries 1990-2002’, International Social Security Review 60(1): 33-58.
2007. ‘Convergence Pressures and Responses: Recent Social Insurance Developments in Modern Welfare States’, Comparative Sociology 6(3): 295-323. (With Ingalill Montanari and Joakim Palme)
2007. ‘The Accumulation of Social Problems: Multiple Deprivation in Sweden 1974-2000’, International Journal of Social Welfare 16(1): S91–S104. (With Tomas Korpi and Sten-Åke Stenberg)
2004. ‘Mechanisms of Poverty Alleviation in the Welfare State. A Comparative Study of Anti-poverty Effects of Non Means-tested and Means-tested Benefits in Five Countries in the 1990s’, Journal of European Social Policy 14(4): 371-390.
2003. ‘Taxation of Social Insurance and Redistribution: A Comparative Analysis of Ten Welfare States’, Journal of European Social Policy 13(1): 21-33.
2002. ‘Attivazione e coordinamento. Il caso svedese (Activation and Coordination: The Swedish Case)’, Assistenza Sociale, n. 2 aprile-giugno: 37-60.
Book Chapters
2022. Age Universalism will Benefit All (Ages), in G. Bognar and A. Gosseries (eds.) Aging without Agism? Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals. Oxford: Oxford University Press (in press).
2022. Social policy research in changing European societies, in Nelson, K., Nieuwenhuis, R., Yerkes, M.A. (eds.) Social Policy in Changing European Societies: Research Agendas for the 21st Century. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (in press).
2022. Where to from here? Social policy research in future European societies, in Nelson, K., Nieuwenhuis, R., Yerkes, M.A. (eds.) Social Policy in Changing European Societies: Research Agendas for the 21st Century. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (in press).
2020. Revisiting the ‘Dependent Variable Problem’: Wim’s Contribution to a Long-Lasting Debate. In Laenen, T., Meuleman, B., Otto, A., Roosma, F., Van Lancker, W. (eds.) Leading Social Policy Analysis from the Front: Essays in Honour of Wim van Oorschot. Leuven: KU Leuven.
2019. Sweden: Adjoining the Guarantee Pension with NDC. In Holzmann, R. and E. Palmer Progress and Challenges of Nonfinancial Defined Contribution Pension Schemes: Addressing Gender, Administration, and Communication. Washington: World Bank Publications.
2019. ‘Poverty in Old Age’. In B. Greve (ed.) Routledge International Handbook of Poverty. London and New York: Routledge.
2017. ‘The Egalitarian Paradise?’, in P. Nedergaard and A. Wivel Handbook on Scandinavian Politics. London: Routledge.
2014. ‘Minimum Income Protection and European Integration: Trends and Levels of Minimum Benefits in Comparative Perspective’, in Navarro, V. and Muntaner, C (eds.) The Financial and Economic Crises and their Impact on Health and Social Well-Being. New York: Baywood.
2013. ‘Sweden: Increasing income inequalities and changing social relations’, in Brian Nolan, Wiemer Salverda, Daniele Checchi, Ive Marx, Abigail McKnight, István György Tóth and Herman van de Werfhorst (eds.) Inequalities and Societal Impacts in Rich Countries: Thirty Countries’ Experiences. Oxford: Oxford University Press.***
2013. ‘Health care provision: An exploratory analysis of increase, decline, converging trends and driving forces in comparative perspective’, in E. Pavolini and A.M. Guillén Public Health Care Systems between Restructuring and Retrenchment. Institutional reforms and performance in EU countries. HoundMills: Palgrave MacMillan.
2012. ’Individuell ofärd, ojämlikhet och socialpolitik. Sverige i ett bredare europeiskt perspektiv’ (Individual well-being, equality and social policy. Sweden in European perspective), in Kön, klass och etnicitet. Jämlikhetsfrågor i socialförsäkringen (Sex, class and ethnicity: Questions of equality in social insurance), Socialförsäkringsrapport 2012:4. Stockholm: Social Insurance Office.
2012. ‘A New Dawn for Minimum Income Protection?’, in Marx, I and Nelson, K. (eds.) Minimum Income Protection in Flux. HoundMills: Palgrave MacMillan.
2012. ‘From Universalism to Selectivity. Old wine in New Bottles for Child Benefits’, in Marx, I and Nelson, K. (eds.) Minimum Income Protection in Flux. HoundMills: Palgrave MacMillan.
2011. ‘Eroding Minimum Income in the Nordic Countries and Abroad? Reassessing the Typical Character of Nordic Social Assistance’, in Kvist, J., Fritzell, J., Hvinden, B., Kangas, O. Changing Social Equality - The Nordic Welfare Model in the 21st Century. Bristol: Policy Press.
2010. ’Multipla välfärdsproblem: Sverige i ett jämförande perspektiv’, in SoS Social Rapport 2010. Stockholm: The National Board of Health and Welfare.
2009. ’Comparative Indicators on Job Quality and Social Protection’, in Guillén A.M. and S-Å. Dahl Quality of Work in the European Union. Concept, Data and Debates from a Transnational Perspective. Bruxelles: P.I.E. Peter Lang.
2006. ‘The Last Resort: Determinants of the Generosity of Means-Tested Minimum Income Protection Policies in Welfare Democracies’, in Carroll E. and L. Ericsson Welfare Politics Cross-Examined: Eclecticist Analytical Perspectives on Sweden and on the Developed World: Amsterdam: Aksel Atland Printers.
2006. ’Välfärdsproblem i Befolkningen’, in SoS Social Rapport 2006. Stockholm: The National Board of Health and Welfare.
Other Publications
2022. Fyra generaliserade steg i lärandeprocessen: En vardagssociologisk betraktelse över gitarrspelande och sociologi, Anförande vid Sociologidagarna, Uppsala 16–18 mars 2022. Sociologisk forskning 59(1-2): 233-243.
2022. ESPN Thematic Report on National monitoring frameworks for public social spending – Sweden, European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission
2022. Sweden seeks to improve the effectiveness of housing benefits and maintenance support, ESPN Flash Report 2022/27, European Commission: Brussels.
2021. Country chapter: Sweden. In Spasova, S., Ghailani, D., Sabato, S., Vanhercke, B (eds.) Social protection of non-standard workers and the self-employed during the pandemic. Report 2021.05. Brussels: ETUI.
2021. Sweden: A joint IT administrative system to improve the availability and quality of municipal welfare services, ESPN Flash Report 2021/22, Brussels: European Commission.
2021. Sociologförbundet har ordet – Konferenser och prisutdelning. Sociologisk forskning, 58(3): 355.
2021. ESPN Thematic Report on Access to social protection for young people – Sweden, European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission.
2021. Sociologförbundet har ordet – Våren är här. Sociologisk forskning, 58(1-2): 193.
2021. ESPN Thematic Report: COVID-19 impact on social protection and social inclusion policies: Sweden. European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission.
2020. The privatisation of active labour market policy in Sweden, ESPN Flash Report 2020/13, Brussels: European Commission.
2020. Sociologförbundet har ordet – Sociologförbundet i sociala medier. Sociologisk forskning 57(3-4): 435.
2020. Introducing the SPIN visualization tool, Deliverable 1.6, Leuven, InGRID-2 project 730998 – H2020.
2020. Book Review: Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality. Acta Sociologica 64(1): 118-119.
2020. Sociologförbundet har ordet – Den nya styrelsens arbete. Sociologisk forskning 57(2): 221.
2019. Migrants’ Social Rights: Evaluating a new approach to collect institutional data for comparative research, Leuven, H2020 InGRID-2 project.
2019. ESPN Thematic Report on National strategies to fight homelessness and housing exclusion – Sweden. European Social Policy Network (ESPN), Brussels: European Commission.
2019. Analysing benefit coverage: A new analytical framework. Leuven, InGRID-2 project 730998 – H2020.
2019. Sweden: Adjoining the Guarantee Pension with NDC. No 136557, Social Protection and Labor Policy and Technical Notes. Washington: The World Bank.
2019. Poverty in Old Age. LIS working papers series - No. 777. Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Study.
2019. Från Sociologförbundet. Sociologisk Forskning 56(1): 79-80.
2018. ESPN Thematic Report on In-work poverty in Europe, Sweden 2018-2019. Brussels. European Commission.
2018. Review: Carly Elizabeth Schall, The Rise and Fall of the Miraculous Welfare Machine: Immigration and Social Democracy in the Twentieth-Century Sweden. New York: Cornell University Press, 2016’. Sociologisk forskning 55(1): 111-113.
2018. Towards a more modern Swedish parental leave benefit, ESPN Flash Report 2018/40: Brussels: European Commission.
2017. ESPN Thematic Report on Progress in the implementation of the 2013 EU Recommendation on “Investing in children: Breaking the cycle of disadvantage”, Sweden 2017. Brussels: European Commission.
2017. Deliverable 22.1: Inventory on core social policy databases and indicators for comparative research. Leuven, FP7 InGRID project.
2017. Deliverable 2.4: Short-term future agenda of the InGRID research infrastructure: servicing European research from data to policy on Inclusive Growth. Leuven, FP7 InGRID project.
2015. Comprehensive Indicators for the Analysis of Out-of-Work Benefits: Introducing the Out-of-Work Benefits Dataset. InGRID Deliverable 22.3. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research.
2015. Levels and targeting of social benefits in global perspective: Combatting poverty through social policy. LIS working papers series - No. 647. Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Study.
2015. ESPN Thematic Report on minimum income schemes: Sweden 2015. Brussels: European Commission.
2013. Unemployment Benefits in EU Member States. Brussels: Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, European Commission.
2013. Review Article: Fighting Working Poverty in Post-industrial Economies: Causes, Trade-offs and Policy Solutions, International Journal of Social Welfare 22(4): 440-441.
2012. The Fiscalization of Child Benefits in OECD Countries. GINI Discussion Paper No. 49: Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam.
2012. Country Report on Growing Inequality and its Impacts in Sweden. Country report of the Growing Inequalities’ Impacts (GINI) Project. Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS), University of Amsterdam.
2012. Rehabiliteringen måste utvecklas. Debattartikel i Göteborgsposten (GP), 31 Juli.
2012. Social Rights and Self-Related Health in Europe. Commissioned paper for Task Group 4 on GDP, Taxes, Income and Welfare within the Review of Social Determinants and the Health Divide in the WHO Euro Region. World Health Organization.
2011. Discussion Paper on Improving the efficiency of social protection. The Peer Review in Social Protection and Social Inclusion and Assessment in Social Inclusion. Brussels: European Commission.
2011. Synthesis Report on Improving the efficiency of social protection. The Peer Review in Social Protection and Social Inclusion and Assessment in Social Inclusion. Brussels: European Commission.
2010. The Nordic welfare model in a European perspective. Working Paper 2010: 11. Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies.
2010. Health Care Developments in EU Member States: Regressing Trends and Institutional Similarity? Working Paper 2010:7. Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies.
2009. ’EU behöver en mer ambitiös socialpolitik (EU needs more ambitous social policies)’, Framtider 1/2009.
2009. Minimum Income Protection and Low-Income Standards: Is Social Assistance Enough for Poverty Alleviation? Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics 9/2009. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research.
2009. Social Assistance and Minimum Income Protection in the EU: Vulnerability, Adequacy, and Convergence. LIS Working Paper No. 511. Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Study.
2008. Adequacy of Social Minimums: Workfare, Gender and Poverty Alleviation in Welfare Democracies. LIS Working Paper 474. Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Study.
2007. Introducing SaMip: The Social Assistance and Minimum Income Protection Interim Dataset. Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics 11/2007. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research.
2007. Terms of Reference for the Study of Social Protection in Developing Countries. Stockholm: The Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
2007. Documentation of Data for the Analysis of Job Quality. RECWOWE Working Paper: Task 03.01. Stockholm: Institute for Futures Studies.
2006. The Social Assistance and Minimum Income Protection Interim Data-Set: Variables and Codes. Mimeo Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research.
2006. Social Insurance Developments in the European Union 1980-2000: Un-Intended Convergence, Replacement Rates, and Welfare State Models. Published speech at the Joint Workshop Notre Europe &Eur-IFRI, The European Social Model(s): Which directions and responsibilities for the EU? Paris: Institut Français des Relations Internationales (Ifri).
2006. The Social Assistance and Minimum Income Protection Interim Data-Set: Documentation. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research
2004. The Formation of Minimum Income Protection: The Institutional Development of Means-tested Benefits in Different Types of Welfare States, 1960-2000. LIS Working Paper No. 373. Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Studies.
2004. The Last Resort: Determinants of Generosity of Means-tested Minimum Income Protection in Welfare Democracies. Compass Working Paper 2004-21.
2002. The Impact of Taxation on the Equalizing Effect of Social Insurance to Income Inequality: A Comparative Analysis of ten welfare states. LIS Working Paper Series No. 327. Luxembourg: Luxembourg Income Studies.
2002. Estimating Post-tax Social Insurance Benefits: Validity Problems in Comparative Analyses of Net Income Components form Household Income Data. Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics 6/2002. Stockholm: Swedish Institute for Social Research.
Research Grants
Principal investigator
Political and distributive consequences of the de-carbonized welfare state, SEK 5,992,000, Swedish Research Council, 2021-2024.
Conference: ESPAnet 2019 annual conference: Social Citizenship, Migration and Conflict - Equality and opportunity in European welfare states, Stockholm 5-7 September 2019, SEK 300,000, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 2019.
The SPIN Database: An Update and expansion, SEK 9,000,000, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2019-2022.
Adequate housing conditions: the role of housing benefits in Sweden and abroad, SEK 4,630,000, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 2019-2022.
Changing social policy and income inequality: Sweden in comparative perspective, SEK 4,050,000, Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), 2013-2015.
European Integration and the social Model. Social policy organization and change in the European Union, SEK 1,950,000, Riksbankens jubileumsfond (RJ), 2008-2010.
Poverty dynamics and redistribution in the welfare state, SEK 1,680,000, Swedish Research Council (VR), 2005-2007.
Conference: Challenges for social protection, SEK 80,000, Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), 2012.
Conference: 25 year anniversary FISS conference on social security, SEK 50,000, Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS), 2013.
Conference: 21st international research seminar on studies in social security, SEK 50,000, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 2014.
Conference: The people pension 100 years – Global poverty challenges and Swedish experiences in social security, SEK 90,000, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 2015.
Conference: FISS konferens: Social policy and poverty in the aftermath of a global financial crisis, SEK 60,000, Swedish Research Council (VR), 2015.
Conference: The future of social policy, SEK 100,000, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2019.
Conference: Development and dissemination of social policy data and indicators, SEK 125,000, Riksbankens jubileumsfond (RJ), 2014.
Swedish ESPAnet, SEK 100,000, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 2014.
Swedish ESPAnet, SEK 600,000, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 2015.
Swedish ESPAnet, SEK 345,000, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE), 2019.
Co-applicant
Towards a sustainable wellbeing economy: integrated policies and transformative indicators (ToBE), €3,000,000, 2023 – 2025, Horizon Europe. Principal investigator: Liisa Häikiö.
Research Infrastructure for democracy, environment, migration, social policy, conflict, and representation (DEMSCORE), SEK 51,195,000, 2022-2024, Swedish Research Council. Principal investigator: Staffan Lindberg.
Reducing poverty and increasing employment through the tax system – a comparative perspective on earned income tax credits, SEK 4,930,000, 2022-2024. Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE). Principal investigator: Daniel Fredriksson.
Encouraging Fathers’ Care: Causes and Consequences of Fathers’ Parental Leave Provisions in Cross-National Comparative Perspective, SEK 4,100,000, 2020-2023, Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and Welfare (FORTE). Principal investigator: Cassandra Engeman.
InGRID-2, European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 730998, EUR 9,345,420 EUR, 2017-2020. Principal investigator: Guy Van Gyes.
Health and mortality in older Europeans- a matter of cash and care? SEK 3,800,000, Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, 2018-2020. Principal investigator: Johan Fritzell.
Towards Resilient Societies? Welfare State Institutions and Individual Capabilities in a Changing Europe, SEK 12,000,000 SEK, 2013-2018, Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS). Principal investigator: Tomas Korpi.
Global economic crisis, institutional change, and inequality in comparative perspective, SEK 11,550,000 SEK, 2013-2017, Swedish Research Council. Principal investigator: Joakim Palme.
Inclusive Growth Research Infrastructure Diffusion (InGRID), EUR 5,000,000, 2013-2016, EU FP7 Research Infrastructures Integrating Activities. Principal Coordinator: Catholic University Leuven.
Generational welfare contracts in transition: Just institutions and outcomes in Sweden and other countries, SEK 3,900,000, 2011-2013, Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS),. Principal investigator: Tommy Ferrarini.
The Social Policy Indicator Database (SPIN), SEK 5,000,000, 2011-2013, Riksbankens jubileumsfond. Principal Investigator: Tommy Ferrarini.
Vietnamese social policy in comparative perspective: towards social policy reform, SEK 1,500,000, 2011-2012, Swedish Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA)/Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries (SAREC). Principal Investigator: Joakim Palme.
Changing institutions and outcomes: Welfare states in a comparative perspective, SEK 4,050,000, 2006-2008, Swedish Research Council for Working Life and Social Research (FAS). Principal Investigator: Joakim Palme (Prof.).
Sustainable taxes in a global context: The political economy of risk-insurance and intergenerational redistribution, SEK 9,000,000 SEK, 2008-2010, Riksbankens jubileumsfond (RJ). Principal Investigator: Joakim Palme.
Redistributive mechanisms in the welfare state, SEK 1,075,000 SEK, 2000-2001, Riksförsäkringsverket. Principal Investigator: Joakim Palme.
