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18 July, 2024

Michael Grätz: Measuring Equality of Opportunity

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Michael Grätz, associate professor at the Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University. He is al

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22 October, 2013

Measuring Cumulative Advantage and the Matthew Effect

Mikael Bask, Department of Economics Uppsala University Abstract To foster a deeper understanding of the mechanisms behind inequality in society, it is crucial to work with well-defined concepts associa

Mikael Bask, Department of Economics Uppsala University
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17 August, 2002

The Timing of Retirement and Social Security Reforms: Measuring Individual Welfare Changes

The paper argues that it is not sufficient to restrict calculations of effects of social reforms on individual welfare to income streams, but necessary to model individual behavior and thereafter calc

Type of publication: Working papers | Anders Karlström, Mårten Palme and Ingemar Svensson
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30 October, 2017

Avital Livny: A New Method for Measuring Diversity Using Sampled Survey Data

Avital Livny, Assistant Professor, Political Science, University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign.ABSTRACTThe negative associations between diversity and economic growth, public goods provision, and in

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05 May, 2021

Measuring Cultural Dimensions: External Validity and Internal Consistency of Hofstede's VSM 2013 Scales

in: Frontiers in Psychology AbstractCross-cultural comparisons often investigate values that are assumed to have long-lasting influence on human conduct and thought. To capture and compare cultural val

Type of publication: Journal articles | Eriksson, Kimmo , & Philipp Gerlach
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15 January, 2025

Vito Peragine: Measuring inequality and welfare when some inequalities matter more than others

Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online. Research seminar with Vito Peragine, Professor of Economics at the University of Bari. His work spans the area of public

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05 May, 2021

New study deconstructs Dunbar’s number – yes, you can have more than 150 friends

An individual human can maintain stable social relationships with about 150 people. This is the proposition known as ‘Dunbar’s number’ – that the architecture of the human brain sets an upper limit on

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04 September, 2020

Recent Debates on Victims' Duties to Resist Their Oppression

Philosophy Compass Abstract This article reviews recent arguments in contemporary political philosophy on victims' duties to resist their oppression. It begins by presenting two approaches to these duti

Type of publication: Journal articles |
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22 October, 2013

Bi Puranen moderates debate at UNESCO

On the 25–26th of March, UNESCO organizes a big international workshop titled "Measuring Social Public Policies: Inclusiveness and Impact" in Paris. The workshop is organized within UNESO's Management

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10 June, 2004

The Impact of Ageing on Innovation and Productivity Growth in Europe

Vienna Institute of Demography and Institute for Futures Studies, Research Report No. 28 Various studies on policy implications of demographic changes in national and community policies: Lot6: Impact o

Type of publication: IFFS reports | Alexia Prskawetz and Thomas Lindh (Eds.)
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