Webpages tagged with «sociology»

In this article, published in the acclaimed journal Nature Human Behaviour, Are Skeie Hermansen and co-authors have studied the within-job gender pay inequality. Using linked employer-employee data from 15 countries, their findings show that the process of sorting people into different jobs account for substantially less of the gender pay differences than previously believed and that the within-job pay differences remain consequential. 

If you are a male immigrant and marry a woman from a country other than your own, you increase your chances of a good job and a high income. This applies whether the woman you marry is Norwegian or not.

Coordinator Katrine Fangen presented the analytical frame of EUMARGINS at the First ISA Forum of Sociology, arranged by the International Sociological Association (ISA) in Barcelona, 5-8 September 2008. The title of her presentation was 'Social exclusion and inclusion of young adult immigrants in Europe'.

Norwegians from minority backgrounds would like to see more awareness of minorities in society according to a sociologist: “White people do not perceive the colour of their skin as meaningful”.

In this article, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad and co-authors investigate interactions between polygenic indices for educational attainment and environmental levels. Their findings can be read below.