Terrorist attacks are known to influence public opinion. But do they also change behaviour? We address this question by comparing the results of two identical randomized field experiments on ethnic discrimination in hiring ...

The continuing expansion of women's employment has increasingly focused attention on the question of how caring work traditionally carried out by unpaid women will be accomplished. In particular, how can caring responsibilities ...

This article explores the relationship between labor market discrimination, stereotypes and employers’ experiences with immigrant workers. Based on interviews with 58 employers, recruited as part of three randomized field ...

English summary Inaugural lecture The Ambiguity of Modernity - Increased Individualization or Stable Structural Inequality? Over the past quarter of a century a number of authors have argued that modern societies are ...

This paper expands the model of rational action by introducing a new concept. rational laziness, to better understand actors’ decision making. In addition to rational information processing, human beings often rely on ...

A number of previous studies have documented a fairly high level of marital homogamy in Norway. Most of these studies, however, have been local and ethnographic, or based on national data measuring homogamy within a limited ...