Arbeidsbetingede stønader eller “in-work benefits” er kontantytelser eller skattelettelser som gis bare til lønnstakere og som dermed gjør det mer økonomisk lønnsomt å velge arbeid fremfor passivt trygdemottak. Ordninger ...

Most countries struggle to implement CO2 reducing policies. Implementation is politically difficult since it typically forces politicians to trade‐off different concerns. The literature on how parties and members of ...

Flere OECD-land har i løpet av de siste tiårene innført stønadsordninger hvor et sentralt kriterium for mottak av stønaden er at mottakeren er i inntektsgivende arbeid, såkalte arbeidsbetingede stønader. Det gjøres først ...

Gender disparities in top-level academic positions are persistent. However, whether bias in recruitment plays a role in producing these disparities remains unclear. This study examines the role of bias in academic recruitment ...

To what extent do early experiences in the host country shape the political integration of immigrants? We argue that the initial neighborhoods immigrants settle in establish patterns of behavior that influence subsequent ...

Does the share of immigrants in a community influence whether people vote for anti-immigration parties? We conduct a systematic review of the causal inference literature studying this question. We collect estimates from ...

We propose a political reinforcement hypothesis, suggesting that rising inequality moves party politics on welfare state issues to the right, strengthening rather than modifying the impact of inequality. We model policy ...