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Labour market policies against the odds? Job finding among participants in ESF projects in comparison with the Public Employment Service

Research report 2014/1, 115 p. The European Social Fund (ESF) has complemented the Swedish Employment Service’s work assisting job seekers in finding new jobs, by financing projects specifically design

Venue: Uppsala Konsert & Kongress The internationally recognized philosopher Timothy Morton and innovation expert Michela Magas meet game designer Doris Rusch and futurist Karim Jebari in a captivat

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online Society’s everyday norms specify which behaviors are socially acceptable in which situations. How similar or different are

Kimmo Eriksson: The global study of everyday norms

Society’s everyday norms specify which behaviors are socially acceptable in which situations. How similar or different are everyday norms in societies around the world—and why? To answer these questio

The more things change, the more they stay the same. A follow up of participants in Social Fund financed projects

Research report 2014/5, 77 p. Every year in Sweden, over one hundred thousand job-seekers are assigned to local labour market policy measures, of which a large proportion are financed with money from t

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Completed: Can the implementation of artificial intelligence in the recruitment process enhance the inclusion of disadvantaged groups? A study of Swedish companies

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