This project has two overarching aims: (1) to analyse the importance of organizational factors and conditions for employees’ work environment and health; and (2) to analyse the importance of differences between countries in labour market relations and employees’ possibilities to influence and participate in decision-making for such organizational conditions.

Careers in the Swedish labor market from the 1960's and onward: From stability to instability? A common picture of today's labor market is that careers have become more complex in contrast to the labor market of the past characterized by permanent jobs. The pace of change is often assumed to be rapid. But is this correct?

By doing analyzes focusing on time from education to job, length of employment spells, and career patterns, we shed light on changes for birth cohorts born from the 1940s and onwards. Our analyses are based on register data and the occupational biographies in the Level of Living Surveys.

How do leave to care for sick children and its wage effect vary with socioeconomic position and family status?

How can strong emotions be part of everyday work practices? The project studies the challenges faced by priests, deacons, veterinarians, veterinary assistants, obstetricians, midwives, directors and actors in an increasingly heterogeneous and divided society.

Encouraging Fathers’ Care: Causes and Consequences of Fathers’ Parental Leave Provisions in Cross-National Comparative Perspective

How have policies influenced changes in everyday life one year after the coronavirus outbreak? Cross-national analysis of parents’ experiences with employment, work and care

The project’s aim is to use an intersectional approach to investigate the role of employer hiring discrimination in the reproduction of ethnic by gender segregation and inequality in the labor market.

Care leave – the right to take time-off from work to provide care – is a key ingredient for sustainable work and a rare area of welfare state expansion. As women now make-up a majority or near majority of union members in many countries, this project examines when and how trade unions mobilize for care leave policies and to what effect.

The problem that rEUsilience tackles is of lack of adaptive capacities or resilience (understood from a familial rather than individual perspective) and resulting dilemmas and inequalities.

How does workplace and neighbourhood segregation shape the employment trajectories of refugees and their children?

During three years, the researchers in this project will examine how cause of death data is achieved, partly to generate new understanding about public health, but also to provide a better understanding of how physicians examine causes of death in Sweden and how they relate to and apply standards and guidelines.

Challenges and opportunities in female-dominated occupations. This program aims to enhance our understanding of why women still fall behind men in terms of wages, careers, health and social recognition. What extent inequalities can be attributed to the fact that women tend to work in female dominated occupations and in “people-oriented jobs”?

This project explores precarious work in Sweden from the 1960s to the early 2020s, focusing on atypical contracts, job instability, and unemployment. It examines long-term trends vs. short-term fluctuations, and how they affect income, health, and differ by education, gender, immigrant status, and urbanity.