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The dynamics of gender earnings differentials: Evidence from establishment data
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Despite dramatic workforce gains by women in recent decades, a substantial gender earnings gap persists and widens over the course of men’s and women’s careers. Since there are earnings differences across establishments, ... -
The Effect of Childhood Family Size on Fertility in Adulthood: New Evidence From IV Estimation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Although fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children’s experience with larger sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. With the sex composition of the two ... -
The Effects of Organizational Change on Worker Well-being and the Moderating Role of Trade Unions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2013) -
The electoral supporter base of the Alternative for Germany
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018) -
The Equality Hurdle: Resolving the Welfare State Paradox
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This article revisits a central tenet of the welfare state paradox, also known as the inclusion-equality trade-off. Using large-scale survey data for 31 European countries and the United States collected over a recent ... -
The Expanding Gender Earnings Gap: Evidence from the LEHD-2000 Census
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The expertise of politicians and their role in epistemic communities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019) -
The gap between legal protection, good intentions and political restrictions. Unaccompanied minors in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017) -
The gender difference in sickness absence: Do managers evaluate men and women differently with regard to the appropriateness of sickness absence?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Aims: Women have much higher rates of sickness absence than men, but the causes of the difference are not well understood. This study examines whether managers have more lenient attitudes toward women’s than toward men’s ... -
The Hierarchy of Care Work: How Immigrants Influence the Gender-Segregated Labor Market
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The devaluation of care work is regarded as a main explanation for the dominance of women in care work. However, less attention has been paid to how such devaluation affects not only the gender balance of jobs but also ... -
The Immigrant-Native Gap in Union Membership: A Question of Time, Sorting, or Culture?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Trade union membership is an indicator of social integration. In this paper, we study the gap in unionization rates between immigrants and natives using high‐quality population‐wide administrative data from Norway. We ... -
The impact of having a child with special needs: Labour market adaptations of immigrant and majority mothers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article compares how having a child with special needs shapes the labour market adaptations of immigrant and majority mothers. We use longitudinal data from Norwegian public registers including all women who gave birth ... -
The Impact of Mental Health Problems in Adolescence on Educational Attainment
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)The aim of the study has been to examine the impact of diagnosed internalising and externalising behavioural problems on educational attainment. We used a fixed-effect model on rich individual longitudinal register data. ... -
The Impact of Relative Poverty on Norwegian Adolescents' Subjective Health: A Causal Analysis with Propensity Score Matching
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2012) -
The influence of expert groups: a citation analysis
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023) -
The Institutional Anchoring of Social Media Venues as Arenas for Local Political Communication. Perceptions by Voters and Politicians
(Chapter, 2017)The article explores social media as institutions for political communication between voters and politicians. While observers have focused on the political use of social media when exploring their democratic potential, ... -
The Making and Circulation of Corporate Quotas
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter examines the making and circulation of gender quotas for corporate boards, a gender-equality policy innovation adopted by Norway’s parliament in 2003. Corporate quotas quickly attracted considerable international ... -
The making and unmaking of ethnic boundaries in the public sphere: The case of Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)This article employs theories of ethnic boundary-making to explore when and under what conditions ethnicity and religious background shape minorities’ experiences when participating in the public sphere in Norway. Drawing ... -
The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2018)This article explores how immigrant niches have emerged within two traditional working-class industries in Norway. Drawing on extensive case studies in urban and coastal areas, we analyze how employers perceive the ...