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1. Migration Trajectories and Education : Measurement, Spatial Patterns and Integration Pathways of Adult Migrants
Sammanfattning : Following the substantial influx of migrants to Sweden in recent decades, the socioeconomic integration processes of migrants have become a key focus for scholars and policymakers. In this thesis, I acknowledge the multifaceted role of education for both individuals and society, and aim to describe, explain, and examine the determinants and geographical manifestation of educational attainment and educational enrollment trajectories of adult migrants in Sweden, employing quantitative analyses and longitudinal register data. LÄS MER
2. Returning to Work : geographies of Employment in Turbulent Times
Sammanfattning : This thesis adds to theorizations of resilience, by placing workers and employment on the center stage. This has been addressed by contextualizing gross employment changes and workers’ way back to employment after redundancy. Swedish longitudinal microdata from 1990-2010 were used. LÄS MER
3. Pathways and destinations : Spatial mobility and socioeconomic integration of international migrants in Sweden
Sammanfattning : Over the last three decades, Sweden has received large inflows of international migrants and particularly refugees. The issues of migrants’ residential patterns and socioeconomic integration are therefore of great interest. A long-lasting concern is that residential segregation hampers migrants’ social and economic outcomes. LÄS MER
4. Modeling Organizational Dynamics : Distributions, Networks, Sequences and Mechanisms
Sammanfattning : The study of how social organizations work, change and develop is central to sociology and to our understanding of the social world and its transformations. At the same time, the underlying principles of organizational dynamics are extremely difficult to investigate. LÄS MER
5. Precarious employment in Sweden : methodological development and health associations
Sammanfattning : Precarious employment (PE), representing a multidimensional construct of (poor) employment conditions, has been found associated with several health outcomes. However, there is a lack of a recognized definition of PE and studies have varied greatly in their assessment of PE. LÄS MER