Peter Skogman Thorsie takes part in a study published in the Journal of Labor Economics, about how gender norms influence the allocation of home production when changes occur in the relative wages of the parents.
In a report for SNS, David Seim examines the student finance for transition and retraining, introduced two years ago in Sweden. Now, he and co-author Peter Fredriksson write in DN Debatt about their results.
Peter Skogman Thoursie has been part of a research group that has evaluated whether labour market interventions can help people on sick leave due to mental health issues return to work.
In this episode of the podcast VoxTalks Economics, Jósef Sigurdsson and Arash Nekoei discuss the economic implications of work-related stress and burnout.
A comprehensive study conducted by researchers at Stockholm University and the Stockholm School of Economics sheds light on the profound economic implications of stress-induced occupational illnesses, particularly burnout.
In a recently published research paper, Sonia Bastigkeit Ericstam, PhD student in civil law, examines the legal framework regulating algorithmic managementin the workplace - in particular regarding employee consent to the use of algorithms.
Meet the organising team of the 9 th Stockholm International Conference of Research on Vocational Education and Training. The conference has grown to become one of the three main international conferences held in cooperation with the European Network for Research in Vocational Education and Training.
Peter Skogman Thoursie has participated in a government report on the Swedish sickness insurance. Now the authors respond to questions about the report in a debate article in the newspaper Svenska Dagbladet.
Extended sick leaves and decreased return to work. Additionally, expenses have increased by nearly 2 billion per year. This shows an investigation with Peter Skogman Thoursie, submitted to the Swedish government on 2 April.
Daniella Dráb completed the Master’s programme in Economics at Stockholm University and currently works with pensions at PwC Sweden. Here she talks about her studies and the transition to working life.
Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism
Communication professionals have a paramount role in global crisis. What did they learn during the covid pandemic that could be used in future global crisis? In an article, Mats Landqvist and Mona Blåsjö identifies and analyzes strategy changes among communicators in municipalities and how their conceptions of communicated knowledge transformed during the pandemic.
In an era of rapid change and increasing societal demands, the role of universities as knowledge producers and catalysts for change has come under scrutiny. This open access book offers a fresh perspective on the significance of universities in society, shedding light on how their knowledge can truly matter beyond academia.
It is often claimed that using the snooze button can have negative effects on sleep and cognitive processes, but there has been no direct evidence to this effect. New research from the Department of Psychology at Stockholm University shows that snoozing may actually support the waking process for regular snoozers.
This year’s winner of the Nobel economics prize, Claudia Goldin, shows in her research how women’s participation in the labour market has historically fluctuated, and why gender differences persist to this day. ”She contributes to the understanding of women’s working life,” Peter Skogman Thoursie says.
Anna Linderoth has written a thesis about gender inequality in the labour market, in which she reports on working conditions, parental leave-taking, and preferences in workplaces dominated by men.
Work related stress can have a negative impact on our wellbeing. Could an ICT-based tool help us cope with stressful workdays? Manoja Weerasekara has explored the topic in her PhD thesis.
Modern, knowledge-intensive organisations are entangled in sophisticated networks of suppliers, competitors, customers and other actors. These ecosystems are the focus of Daniel Chen Hsi Tsai’s research interest.
A study on the psychosocial work environment and associations with health-related outcomes in Swedish academia has just been published in Annals of Work Exposures and Health.
Single-parent incomes are less likely to reach above the poverty thresholds in societies with a large share of dual-earner households. But this pattern only appears in countries with low public expenditures on childcare and income-transfer policies. These are the findings of a new study from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), recently published in a special issue of the scientific journal ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Singelförälders inkomster ligger oftare under gränsen för relativ fattigdom i länder där en stor del av hushållen försörjs av två inkomster. Men detta mönster syns bara i länder med låga offentliga utgifter för barnomsorg och socialförsäkringar. Det visar resultaten i en ny studie från Institutet för social forskning (SOFI), nyligen publicerad i ett specialnummer av den vetenskapliga tidskriften ANNALS från American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Will a better understanding of families lead to improved welfare states? That’s the hope of a big new research project in six European countries, coordinated by sociologist Rense Nieuwenhuis at Stockholm University.
Being young and exposed to violent crime can increase the risk of labour market exclusion later in life, at least if you are a woman. For young men, there is not the same risk – unless they themselves have also committed a violent crime, then the risk of exclusion from the labour market increases for them as well. This is shown in a new dissertation in sociology from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.
What you earn in a given year says more about how your lifetime income will develop than your social class does. This is the finding of a new study from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University published in the journal European Sociological Review.
Anna Kahlmeter defends her thesis in sociology "Stressful life events and risks for social exclusion in the youth-to-adulthood transition – Findings from Swedish longitudinal data".
In a new article in The Conversation, SOFI-researcher José Montalbán Castilla discusses effects of having free school lunch for children. How does the students’ academic career, health and work life benefit from having free school lunches early in life? José Montalbán Castilla summarizes the different school lunch systems across the world, and highlights evidence from Sweden.
Stockholm University ranks first in the Nordic region and third in Europe in terms of the number of start-up companies in the tech industry – so-called “unicorns” – that were started by former students.
In addition to the positive effects of having high grades in itself, being top of the class increases the probability that a student finishes a longer education or gets a higher income later in life. For students at the lower end of the grade distribution, being a bit more highly ranked compared to other students in the school increases the probability of finishing upper secondary school. These are the results of a new dissertation in economics from the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University.
Men with foreign-sounding names applying for a job receive significantly fewer responses to their applications than female applicants with a foreign-sounding name. Both male and female recruiters appear to discriminate against them, although in different occupational groups.
Oksana Domina, fil. dr., University of Luxembourg was visiting doctoral researcher at the Department of Education, Stockholm University, during Autumn 2021. Read about her dissertation. She defended her doctoral thesis in December 2021.
This research project aims to examine how Vocational and Educational Training responded to the structural changes in the labour market and the role it played in the inclusion of immigrants in Sweden from the 1950:s to 2020.
An important finding in the thesis “The meaning of gender and skin color in the everyday life of nursing homes under different organizational conditions (Storm 2018), was that it was a tension between the residents’ right to self-determination and influence over their care, and the staff’s right to an anti-discriminatory working life.
Can AI help us come to terms with fraud? In this project, we use machine learning models to identify indicators for unclear insurance claims in order to deter suspicious damage payments and insurance fraud.
This research program examines cohesion and exclusion in working life in the wake of long-term structural change. As labor markets are transformed by rising skill requirements and service sector expansion, the conditions and opportunities of both traditionally marginal groups and formerly established worker categories may change considerably.
Alcohol consumption is a leading risk factor for injury, disease and premature death in Europe. Hence, there is increasing interest in effective universal interventions to reduce alcohol consumption and related harm, and the workplace is a favorable arena.
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.
Gender gaps in negotiation behaviour and shying away from exposure to social ranking. This project aims to provide new knowledge on why we see persistent gender gaps despite the convergence by gender in many factors.
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.
The me-too petition #TystnadTagning received media- and political attention in Sweden and the performing arts became a case illustrating a larger problem on the Swedish labor market: health effects of sexual harassment and sexual violence and the culture of silence that surrounds them.
The way that technology is designed affects both people and the planet. Therefore, we need to prioritize the ethical dimensions of technology and develop practices for ethical design. This project explores ethical design practices together with design practitioners.
Smartwatches, fitness trackers and other wearables follow every step we take, and every move we make. We even take them to bed and let them track our sleep. This project explores how people interact with technology and hack traditional sleep schedules in order to make their lives work.
That excessive gambling for money can have serious consequences for the player is well-known, but what we know too little about is how workplaces can influence gambling habits.
Diversity is seen by Volvo as a tool for recruiting sought-after staff that can contribute to strengthened innovation capacity. For this to become a reality, research shows that diversity needs to be paired with active work for inclusion.
This research project builds on a new data set on hiring in academia – a sector known for its dearth of women at top positions. The data set is unique in its scope and detail, covering all recruitment and promotion processes at the level of assistant, associate, and full professor at Sweden’s 10 largest universities from 2018 to 2020.
This project will explore new aspects about gender equality in the labor market, with a focus on differences in career achievements between men and women. The objective is to investigate the roots of gender inequality and potential reforms that can help increase equality.
This project endeavors to map landscapes of humanities research in Sweden. It sets out to explore, on the one hand, trends and patterns of publishing and, on the other, ways on which research policy impacts on the humanities in Sweden as compared to the situation in other countries.
This PhD thesis project studies how formal and informal structures influence IT alignment in public organisations. The project also explores how IT alignment improves organisational agility – one of the determinants of a successful digital transformation.
In March 2020, everyday life changed dramatically for many Swedish workers as a result of the Public Health Agency’s recommendations on telework (work from home using ICT) to reduce the spread of COVID-19; within some weeks telework increased by 400%. Many of those who began teleworking did so without or with only limited experience of telework.
This project examines how the rise of women´s employment and earnings affected trends in economic inequality among all households, across OECD and European countries since the 1980s.
The present research project aims to study career guidance and counseling for newly arrived youth and young adults in upper secondary education and adult education, with specialattention to the conditons for social inclusion and recogntion.
Can self-employment increase upward mobility? The main objective of this project is to study income mobility among natives and immigrants and we ask specifically if self-employment can increase upward mobility.
Strong motivation, agency, language skills and supporting social networks, these are key factors for successful integration and migrants' access to their previous vocation in Sweden. In the study 20 skilled migrants and five employers’ representatives were interviewed.
A large proportion of immigrants in Sweden face difficulties in getting employed, and the situation is especially problematic for some country of origin groups. Two explanations that have been found to be important by previous research are education and discrimination.
In a globalized and rapidly changing world of increasing complexity and uncertainty, organizations need to attract, develop and retain competent leaders, which makes competence and leadership development a priority. The program addresses the challenge of how to recoup investments in leadership.
This project explores linguistic and institutional dynamics in multilingual workplaces, examining interactional practices and identity construction. Using audio/video data, it focuses on backstage talk, leadership, and socio-technical practices in manager-employee meetings, employing EMCA, MCA, and socio-technical methods.
A new manager enters the workplace with no previous knowledge of employees, organizational culture, or history and is supposed to lead a development project for six months with no future in the business. This scenario is increasingly common in contemporary working life. But what happens when even the manager is there temporarily?
In this PhD thesis project, the KYKLOS method is developed. Its purpose is to provide methodological and tool support for changing organizations using enterprise modeling and a capability-oriented approach.
This project examines the importance of individual work motivation for the structure of labor market inequality. We examine the importance of learning and effort motivation for three central labor market outcomes: employment, occupational attainment and wages.
This project concerns the opportunities to strengthen educational and professional chances for students without complete compulsory education, a group running increased risks of future social exclusion. These young people are normally channeled into one of five introductory programs (IP), preparing for studies and/or work.
A study of measures in the establishment mission and how these affect employers’ recruitment decisions. The integration of refugees into the regular labor market takes a very long time. After eight years in Sweden, only about half are employed. The objective of the project is to study refugees' path towards employment the first years after arrival.
The aim of this PhD thesis project is to study digital transformation in public organizations. We focus on how organizational culture in public organizations is influencing digital transformation.
In this 3-year project, we advance research by focusing heterogeneity in career effects of parenthood, as we believe it can give us valuable clues to unveiling the underlying mechanisms of gender inequality.
The project focuses on internationally trained teachers and pre-school teachers and their experience and view of communication and language use in their work in Sweden. Their experience derives from their supplementary education (ULV) at universities in Sweden, and from their work as teachers in different parts of the Swedish school system.
In Nicoline Annetorp Roth’s dissertation, patient participation and care coordination for older adults transitioning from hospital to home care are explored in relation to socio-political trends in the old-age care field.
The aim of this project is to provide evidence on the outcomes of individuals who choose their high school program gender-atypically and start a program where they belong to the minority gender.
PrecaNord breaks new ground by offering a multi-level analysis of the prevalence, trends and institutional contexts of precarious and informal work in Finland, Norway and Sweden.
Falls among older people are a serious problem that causes both human suffering and high social costs. There is extensive knowledge about how falls can be prevented, but there is often a lack of knowledge about the conditions required for this to be put into practice, by older people themselves, by staff in social services, home care and healthcare.
How did communication specialists in Swedish municipalities work during the covid-19-pandemic? What did they learn that could be of use in future crisis?
Experimental studies in partnership with firms and organizations.
This project applys innovative field experimental methods in partnership with firms and organizations. It will focus on two outcomes: recruitment and promotions.
This project aims to identify causal mechanisms to a gender gap in negotiation behavior by employing three unique and overlapping methods: experiments, survey data and interventions.
A legal study of responsibility for and control of how we divide our time between work and leisure. This project aims to provide a coherent picture of working time regulation and identify any gaps or contradictions within it.
This research project documents results, main challenges and successes of an international training programme on ICT regulation and formulates suggestions for improvement. Analyses of documentation and reports from programme participants are complemented by an OECD/DAC framework evaluation.
With this project we aim to examine the nature and financial impacts of participation in the labour market after pensionable age in two contrasting societies: Sweden and the United States.
Robotic Process Automation adoption is increasing in the public sector. The aim is to improve the quality and efficiency of public services. This PhD thesis project studies the adoption process from the perspective of technology as routine capability.
The Samsyn project is based on close cooperation between the research group Intensivsvenska and the Swedish National Agency for Education (Developing the introductory programs at upper secondary school).
The project investigates how mentors, during workplace learning, better can contribute to students’ learning processes and their transition into work life.
Mental health disorders affect more than one billion individuals worldwide and represent one of the largest global health problems. The aim of this project is to provide clear and actionable information about which work related and organizational factors positively or negatively impact employees’ mental health.
The project's primary purpose is to increase the understanding of labor market and educational effects of gender transitioning on Swedish adults and youth whilst considering two theoretically specified contexts giving rise to oppression: one focused on gender and the other on being transgender.
In this project, we investigate how the flexibilization of working life shapes the maneuvering space of women (and men) in work and family and how this, in turn, contributes to gender and class inequality in wages and (un)health
Pathways into and out of leadership positions in a gender and life-course perspective. This project fills some gaps within the research field by studying both those who do and do not become leaders, and movements into and out of management positions.
Social actions such as advice and feedback are sensitive actions, often triggering emotional and defensive reactions. Moreover, just how to understand and describe such actions – for instance, as “constructive advice”, “complaints”, or even “insults” – is a potential point of contention and dispute for participants in interaction.
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”?
Despite a strong emphasis on person-centered care in social service provision, scientific knowledge is limited regarding the actual impact and how these goals can be realized.
Video Remote Interpreting (VRI): A study on Cognitive Load in Simultaneous and Dialogue Interpreting via video and interpreters' attitudes towards VRI in Sweden
This program analyses individual life courses in Europe and the importance of socioeconomic position and gender for working conditions, exit routes and post-retirement health.
YOUNGWORK engages a highly qualified team of researchers to study how labour market trajectories unfold during early adulthood, and how labour market outcomes relate to factors on the personal, family, or school level.
Career Development and Guidance is an international research area which focuses on youth and adult learning in relation to educational and vocational choices and their career development and mobility.
The ongoing digital transformation affects us all. For organizations, investing in digital technologies opens up new opportunities for value creation. We are interested in how their performance and culture change because of digital transformation.
The research area focuses on improved understanding of how stress-related illnesses and health problems arise and can be prevented in and outside of the workplace.
All over the world, organizations are looking to perform better and gain competitive advantage by using IT and digital technologies. The IT Management and Governance group studies how to manage and govern IT and digital investments to support digital transformation.
Interfler is one of the regular research groups in the section Swedish and Scandinavian Languages in the Department of Swedish and Multilingualism. The group consists of researchers with interests in interaction and multilingualism, both in everyday life and different public domains such as education and working life.
Labour economics is a very broad research field. In addition to research on labour market outcomes, such as wages and employment, the AME unit studies both elementary and higher education, health, taxes and income transfers, politics, crime and punishment, and gender equality.
At AMR (Labour market regulation), forensic research is conducted on the regulation that governs the labour market. It includes labour law, the rules that give substance to the relationship between employers and employees, as individuals and as a collective.
This research group is one of the leading groups in Swedish research in Education related to organizations and working life. Internationally the group contributes to research within workplace learning, organizational learning and learning organization.
We investigate cognition and processes in interpreting, subtitling and translation. This involves studying advanced language use, the brain, executive functions, and cognitive and social processes in interpreting and translation.
The STIR group brings together a mix of technologists and social scientists. Together, we research and build new digital technologies. Our work is situated within the Human–Computer Interaction field.
The research group VET/YL focuses on issues within Vocational Education and Training (VET), a well-established international field of research that studies questions of skills, qualifications, competences and professional knowledge in relation to early VET, upper secondary as well as adult VET, and advanced VET.