• Generosity in Times of Crisis. Norwegian helping behaviors during the corona pandemic 

  Sivesind, Karl Henrik; Arnesen, Daniel (Research report, 2021)

  The corona pandemic has thrown the world into a health crisis that has had devastating effects on the global economy and public life in many countries. Little is known about how people have responded to two competing ...

• Rising Inequality in the Egalitarian Nordics 

  Barth, Erling; Moene, Karl Ove (Kalle); Pedersen, Axel West (Chapter, 2021)

• Beware of the “poverty migrant”: media discourses on EU labour migration and the welfare state in Germany and the UK 

  Danaj, Sonila; Wagner, Ines (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  This article examines the role of the media in the EU freedom of movement debate through the lens of high-circulation German and UK newspapers during the first half of 2014. It explores how the media problematised migration ...

• Mobilizing the Underrepresented: Electoral Systems and Gender Inequality in Political Participation 

  Skorge, Øyvind Søraas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  To study the political mobilization of underrepresented groups, this article examines the effect of electoral systems on gender equality in voting. Theoretically, I argue that replacing a plurality electoral system with ...

• Union effects on product and technological innovations 

  Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)

  We present theoretical and empirical evidence challenging early studies that found unions were detrimental to workplace innovation. Under our theoretical model, unions prefer product innovation to labor-saving technological ...

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