Arnfinn H Midtbøen
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 631371 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arnfinn H Midtbøen |
| NOMBRES | Arnfinn H |
| APELLIDO | Midtbøen |
| FIRMA | MIDTBØEN A H |
| AFILIACIONES | Institute for Social Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8465-9333 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 484 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2010 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
The racialized penalties of immigrant origin
The role of discrimination in shaping the life chances of immigrants and their descendants is central to debates in the sociology of immigration. This study synthesizes evidence from 114 field experiments on hiring conducted across twelve countries, comparing discrimination against foreign-born and native-born minoritized groups in Europe and North America. Using meta-regression, we examine how callback rates vary by applicants’ place of birth, c…
Under the Radar
In the US and the UK, rapidly growing populations of mixed origins have constituted a key research site for decades. In most European countries, by contrast, the mixed-origin group has remained largely invisible within research on immigration-related inequality and especially so in its quantitative branch. Breaking this pattern, we zoom in on Norwegian-born individuals with one parent born outside of Western Europe and North America, a group cons…
Det etniske hierarkiet
Denne artikkelen analyserer resultatene fra et omfattende felteksperiment der 2779 fiktive jobbsøknader fra likt kvalifiserte personer med bakgrunn fra i alt 37 land ble sendt ut til like mange stillingsutlysninger i det norske arbeidsmarkedet. Analysene dokumenterer eksistensen av et etnisk hierarki i en norsk kontekst. Særlig jobbsøkere med navn fra Afrika, Midtøsten og Sør-Asia diskrimineres i ansettelsesprosessen. Søkere fra europeiske land, …
Are Politicians Biased against Ethnic Minority Candidates? Experimental Evidence from Norway
To what extent is the underrepresentation of ethnic minorities in politics due to ethnic bias? While this question has interested researchers for a long time, direct evidence of ethnic bias in party-controlled nomination processes is scarce. We conducted survey experiments with politicians and voters in Norway, where parties control the nomination process, to examine bias against ethnic minority candidates. The politicians evaluated candidate pro…
Downplaying difference
This article explores the type of destigmatisation strategies minorities use to access employment in Norway, a country characterised by ambiguous egalitarianism, a rapidly changing demographic, and a public "silence about race". Analysing 52 interviews with minority Norwegians about their job search behaviour, we found that they hide or downplay minority-specific cues in their resumes to avoid immigrant stereotypes and to signal Norwegianness. No…
‘Birthplace unknown’
When naturalised citizens receive their passport, it is material and symbolic proof of membership in the nation-state, tying the individual to the nation and providing mobility resources. For naturalised Norwegian citizens, their birthplace appears in the passport. What might be the implications of removing this information? In 2016, the Norwegian government replaced birthplace details with ‘birthplace unknown’ in the passports of naturalised cit…
Gendered Consequences of Social Mobility
Across Europe, children of low-educated migrants are entering high-status occupations. While the research literature has accounted for the determinants of this social mobility, few studies have explored how social mobility affects the lives of second-generation immigrant men and women in different ways. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 62 descendants of migrants in high-status occupations in Norway, this article asks how second-generation wome…
Elites on Equality
Access to resources, wealth, and power positions varies systematically with membership in social categories. This article asks what role the elites themselves - as holders of power and regulators of access to influential positions - can play in maintaining, but also changing, the demographic composition of elites. Drawing on a unique survey among the entire Norwegian elite, we investigate what holders of elite positions believe are the main cause…
Navigating to the Top in an Egalitarian Welfare State
A large body of work has demonstrated the substantial intergenerational mobility experienced by children of immigrants, yet the institutional determinants of incorporation are poorly understood. Building on insights from neo-classical assimilation theory, this article analyzes in-depth interviews with 62 high-achieving children of labor immigrants from Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Morocco and investigates how they maneuvered through Norway’s educ…
Ideological biases in research evaluations? The case of research on majority–minority relations
Social science researchers tend to express left‐liberal political attitudes. The ideological skew might influence research evaluations, but empirical evidence is limited. We conducted a survey experiment where Norwegian researchers evaluated fictitious research on majority–minority relations. Within this field, social contact and conflict theories emphasize different aspects of majority–minority relations, where the former has a left‐liberal lean…
Strukturell rasisme i en strukturelt inkluderendevelferdsstat
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Philosophies of integration? Elite views on citizenship policies in Scandinavia
Research on the ‘civic turn’ in European citizenship policies suggests that concerns over immigrant integration have fueled the restrictive development of citizenship policies in recent decades. However, few efforts have been made to explore the normative ideas underlying this development. Departing from Favell’s (1998) influential concept of ‘philosophies of integration’, this article draws on elite-interviews with top-level bureaucrats, politic…
Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring
This article reviews studies of hiring discrimination against racial and ethnic minority groups in cross-national perspective. We focus on field experimental studies of hiring discrimination: studies that use fictitious applications from members of different racial and ethnic groups to apply for actual jobs. There are more than 140 field experimental studies of hiring discrimination against ethno-racial minority groups in 30 countries. We outline…
Gender Bias in Academic Recruitment? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the Nordic Region
Gender disparities in top-level academic positions are persistent. However, whether bias in recruitment plays a role in producing these disparities remains unclear. This study examines the role of bias in academic recruitment by conducting a large-scale survey experiment among faculty in Economics, Law, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology from universities in Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The faculty respondents rated CVs of hypo…
Ulikhet og ideologi
Med utgivelsen av Capital in the Twenty-First Century i 2013, satte Thomas Piketty ulikhet på dagsordenen med en kraft som er få akademiske utgivelser forunt. Forskere, allment samfunnsinteresserte så vel som politikere, lærte om hvordan den økonomiske ulikheten i mange land har skutt i været de siste 30–40 årene til fordel for en svært liten minoritet av superrike. I sin siste bokutgivelse – Capital and Ideology fra 2019 – tar Piketty opp igjen …
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning
Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning vil prøve å gi et norsk publikum vitenskapelig orientering om samfunnsforhold og mellommenneskelige spørsmål. [...] Vår oppgave er å legge fram resultater av forskning, ikke å fremme sosiale «saker» eller å være forum for ideologisk og politisk samfunnsdebatt. [...] Vi håper å kunne bidra til å utvikle et nytt «språk» – i vid forstand – et språk som kan gjøre det mulig å fremstille generelle, ofte fjerne eller uti…
Kontinuitet og kontrovers i norsk samfunnsforskning
I år er det 60 år siden Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS) ble etablert. Jubileet ble feiret med et spesialnummer (TfS nr. 1/2020), der vitenskapshistorikeren Fredrik Thue ga sin versjon av TfS’ opprinnelse og utvikling (Thue, 2020). 2020 er imidlertid også året for et annet viktig jubileum i norsk samfunnsvitenskap: Institutt for samfunnsforskning (ISF) fyller 70 år. ISF har siden etableringen av TfS i 1960 vært tidsskriftets eier og vertsin…
Assessments of citizenship criteria
The literature on citizenship policies is flourishing, yet we know little of which naturalisation requirements majorities and minorities find reasonable, and how they view existing citizenship regimes. Drawing on original survey data with young adults in Norway (N = 3535), comprising immigrants and descendants with origins from Iraq, Pakistan, Poland, Somalia and Turkey, as well as a non-immigrant majority group, this article examines whether per…
Do Some Countries Discriminate More than Others? Evidence from 97 Field Experiments of Racial Discrimination in Hiring
Comparing levels of discrimination across countries can provide a window into large-scale social and political factors often described as the root of discrimination. Because of difficulties in measurement, however, little is established about variation in hiring discrimination across countries. We address this gap through a formal meta-analysis of 97 field experiments of discrimination incorporating more than 200,000 job applications in nine coun…
The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State
This article explores how immigrant niches have emerged within two traditional working-class industries in Norway. Drawing on extensive case studies in urban and coastal areas, we analyze how employers perceive the availability and desirability of native-born and immigrant workers and discuss how these perceptions are related to underlying changes in the structure of employment. The article contributes to the literature by developing a general mo…
Innvandring og sosial mobilitet – forskere møterfagfeller
Ubehaget i migrasjonsforskningen
Norsk migrasjonsforskning kan se tilbake på en snart 50 år lang historie. Mens det hele startet med sosiologen Aud Korbøls banebrytende studie av de første pakistanske arbeidsinnvandrerne som hadde kommet til Oslo i 1970, er feltet i dag preget av et mangfold av fagdisipliner, teoretiske perspektiver og empiriske innfallsvinkler. Historien om norsk migrasjonsforskning er imidlertid også en historie om faglig konflikt, steile fronter og kamper om …
Do terrorist attacks affect ethnic discrimination in the labour market? Evidence from two randomized field experiments
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 that we conducted in Oslo. The first experiment was conducted before the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway; the second experiment was conducted after the attacks. In both experiments, applicants with a typical Pakistani name wer…
Dual Citizenship in an Era of Securitisation
This article uses the case of Denmark to critically discuss key assumptions in the theoretical literature on dual citizenship. When Denmark surprisingly accepted dual citizenship in 2015, the decision reflected two distinct lines of argument: first, accepting dual citizenship would allow Danes living abroad to keep their Danish citizenship; second, because it is considered illegitimate to make people stateless, allowing dual citizenship would sim…
Ethnic niche formation at the top? Second-generation immigrants in Norwegian high-status occupations
As an increasing number of highly educated second-generation immigrants are entering the labour market, their occupational trajectories are of growing interest. This article examines processes of mainstream inclusion and ethnic niche formation among second-generation individuals in three high-status professions in Norway: medicine, law and business and finance. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 62 descendants of labour migrants from Pakistan, T…
Do Some Countries Discriminate More than Others? Evidence from 97 Field Experiments of Racial Discrimination in Hiring
Comparing levels of discrimination across countries can provide a window into large-scale social and political factors often described as the root of discrimination. Because of difficulties in measurement, however, little is established about variation in hiring discrimination across countries. We address this gap through a formal meta-analysis of 97 field experiments of discrimination incorporating more than 200,000 job applications in nine coun…
Ethnicity as skill
Immigrants are often concentrated in particular, often low-waged, segments of the labour market and employers tend to assume that immigrants posit (soft) skills which make them particularly suited for specific tasks. Less scholarly attention has been given to the real and perceived content of these skills and how employers may shift their view over time. We contribute to the literature by examining changing ethnic employment hierarchies in two im…
Comparative Perspectives on Racial Discrimination in Hiring
This article reviews studies of hiring discrimination against racial and ethnic minority groups in cross-national perspective. We focus on field experimental studies of hiring discrimination: studies that use fictitious applications from members of different racial and ethnic groups to apply for actual jobs. There are more than 140 field experimental studies of hiring discrimination against ethno-racial minority groups in 30 countries. We outline…
Discrimination of the Second Generation
The context of employment discrimination
Although field experiments have documented the contemporary relevance of discrimination in employment, theories developed to explain the dynamics of differential treatment cannot account for differences across organizational and institutional contexts. In this article, I address this shortcoming by presenting the main empirical findings from a multi-method research project, in which a field experiment of ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian lab…
The Invisible Second Generation? Statistical Discrimination and Immigrant Stereotypes in Employment Processes in Norway
Although children of immigrants usually have acquired fluency in the majority language as well as domestic educational qualifications and work experience, recent quantitative and experimental studies indicate that the ‘second generation’ experiences discrimination in accessing entry-level jobs in Europe. In this article, I take as my point of departure a field experiment documenting that descendants of Pakistani immigrants indeed face discriminat…
The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State
This article explores how immigrant niches have emerged within two traditional working-class industries in Norway. Drawing on extensive case studies in urban and coastal areas, we analyze how employers perceive the availability and desirability of native-born and immigrant workers and discuss how these perceptions are related to underlying changes in the structure of employment. The article contributes to the literature by developing a general mo…
The making and unmaking of ethnic boundaries in the public sphere
This article employs theories of ethnic boundary-making to explore when and under what conditions ethnicity and religious background shape minorities' experiences when participating in the public sphere in Norway. Drawing on in-depth interviews with elite individuals with various ethnic and religious minority backgrounds, the analysis calls into question interpretations made in other studies, which tend to imply an all-encompassing significance o…
Navigating to the Top in an Egalitarian Welfare State
A large body of work has demonstrated the substantial intergenerational mobility experienced by children of immigrants, yet the institutional determinants of incorporation are poorly understood. Building on insights from neo-classical assimilation theory, this article analyzes in-depth interviews with 62 high-achieving children of labor immigrants from Pakistan, Turkey, India, and Morocco and investigates how they maneuvered through Norway’s educ…
Discrimination
Field experiments have proved productive in documenting the continuing relevance of race and ethnicity in the shaping of opportunities in modern societies. However, methodological questions have been raised concerning the existence of unobservable variables and the subsequent danger of drawing inferences on a wrong basis. In this article, we address these debates and discuss a research strategy which to a large degree exceeds the challenges posed…
Do terrorist attacks affect ethnic discrimination in the labour market? Evidence from two randomized field experiments
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 that we conducted in Oslo. The first experiment was conducted before the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway; the second experiment was conducted after the attacks. In both experiments, applicants with a typical Pakistani name wer…
Gender Bias in Academic Recruitment? Evidence from a Survey Experiment in the Nordic Region
Gender disparities in top-level academic positions are persistent. However, whether bias in recruitment plays a role in producing these disparities remains unclear. This study examines the role of bias in academic recruitment by conducting a large-scale survey experiment among faculty in Economics, Law, Physics, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology from universities in Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. The faculty respondents rated CVs of hypo…
Etnisk diskriminering i arbeidsmarkedet
At diskriminering er notorisk vanskelig å måle vitenskapelig, har preget både politikk og forskning på innvandringsfeltet i Norge i en årrekke. Samtidig er omfanget av kunnskap om dette fenomenet etter hvert blitt så stort at det er på tide å bevege seg fra spørsmålet om diskriminering forekommer til hvordan det kan forklares og hva som kan gjøres med det. I denne artikkelen presenterer jeg state of the art for forskningen på etnisk diskriminerin…
Citizenship, integration and the quest for social cohesion
After having coordinated their nationality laws since the late 19th century, the Scandinavian countries have moved in distinctly different directions in this field since the turn of the millennium. Today Sweden has one of the most liberal citizenship policies in Europe, while Denmark has one of the most restrictive. Norway occupies an intermediate position between its Scandinavian neighbours. In this article, I compare the differences in Scandina…
Philosophies of integration? Elite views on citizenship policies in Scandinavia
Research on the ‘civic turn’ in European citizenship policies suggests that concerns over immigrant integration have fueled the restrictive development of citizenship policies in recent decades. However, few efforts have been made to explore the normative ideas underlying this development. Departing from Favell’s (1998) influential concept of ‘philosophies of integration’, this article draws on elite-interviews with top-level bureaucrats, politic…
Assessments of citizenship criteria
The literature on citizenship policies is flourishing, yet we know little of which naturalisation requirements majorities and minorities find reasonable, and how they view existing citizenship regimes. Drawing on original survey data with young adults in Norway (N = 3535), comprising immigrants and descendants with origins from Iraq, Pakistan, Poland, Somalia and Turkey, as well as a non-immigrant majority group, this article examines whether per…
Ethnic niche formation at the top? Second-generation immigrants in Norwegian high-status occupations
As an increasing number of highly educated second-generation immigrants are entering the labour market, their occupational trajectories are of growing interest. This article examines processes of mainstream inclusion and ethnic niche formation among second-generation individuals in three high-status professions in Norway: medicine, law and business and finance. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 62 descendants of labour migrants from Pakistan, T…
Ethnic Penalties in Western Labour Markets
This article reviews the comparative literature on ethnic penalties in Western labour markets. Although there is considerable variation between ethnic groups, immigrants and descendants, and across national contexts in terms of the magnitude of ethnic penalties, ethnic minorities of non-European origin experience disadvantages in all contexts. Discussing the striking cross-national variation, I highlight the impact of the economy, legacies of imm…
Social Investment in Gender Equality? Changing Perspectives on Work and Welfare in Norway
In many EU countries, the so-called social investment perspective has provided new arguments for active welfare state policies. The social investment perspective is characterized by emphasizing the role of the state to increase participation in employment by investing in the working capacity of the population—particularly women—through activation programmes and social policies. In this article we depart from recent debates surrounding this perspe…
Downplaying difference
This article explores the type of destigmatisation strategies minorities use to access employment in Norway, a country characterised by ambiguous egalitarianism, a rapidly changing demographic, and a public "silence about race". Analysing 52 interviews with minority Norwegians about their job search behaviour, we found that they hide or downplay minority-specific cues in their resumes to avoid immigrant stereotypes and to signal Norwegianness. No…
Strukturell rasisme i en strukturelt inkluderendevelferdsstat
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Dual Citizenship in an Era of Securitisation
This article uses the case of Denmark to critically discuss key assumptions in the theoretical literature on dual citizenship. When Denmark surprisingly accepted dual citizenship in 2015, the decision reflected two distinct lines of argument: first, accepting dual citizenship would allow Danes living abroad to keep their Danish citizenship; second, because it is considered illegitimate to make people stateless, allowing dual citizenship would sim…
Kumulativ diskriminering
Artikkel basert på en metastudie av forskning om diskriminering av samer, nasjonale minoriteter og nyere innvandrergrupper i Norge
Det etniske hierarkiet
Denne artikkelen analyserer resultatene fra et omfattende felteksperiment der 2779 fiktive jobbsøknader fra likt kvalifiserte personer med bakgrunn fra i alt 37 land ble sendt ut til like mange stillingsutlysninger i det norske arbeidsmarkedet. Analysene dokumenterer eksistensen av et etnisk hierarki i en norsk kontekst. Særlig jobbsøkere med navn fra Afrika, Midtøsten og Sør-Asia diskrimineres i ansettelsesprosessen. Søkere fra europeiske land, …
Elites on Equality
Access to resources, wealth, and power positions varies systematically with membership in social categories. This article asks what role the elites themselves - as holders of power and regulators of access to influential positions - can play in maintaining, but also changing, the demographic composition of elites. Drawing on a unique survey among the entire Norwegian elite, we investigate what holders of elite positions believe are the main cause…
Den utdannede, den etterlatte og den drepte
Statsborgerrettslig revisjon og integrasjonspolitisk variasjon i de skandinaviske landene
STATSBORGERRETTSLIG REVISJON OG INTEGRASJONSPOLITISK VARIASJON I DE SKANDINAVISKE LANDENE Arnfinn Haagensen Midtbøen De skandinaviske landene har en lang tradisjon for statsborgerrettslig samarbeid. I de siste årene har de imidlertid beveget seg i ulik retning på dette området. I dag har Sverige en av de mest liberale statsborgerskapslovgivningene i Europa, mens Danmark har en av de mest restriktive Med den nye loven av 2005, befinner Norge seg m…
Anne-Jorunn Berg, Anne Britt Flemmen og Berit Gullikstad (red.)
Discrimination
Field experiments have proved productive in documenting the continuing relevance of race and ethnicity in the shaping of opportunities in modern societies. However, methodological questions have been raised concerning the existence of unobservable variables and the subsequent danger of drawing inferences on a wrong basis. In this article, we address these debates and discuss a research strategy which to a large degree exceeds the challenges posed…
Social Investment in Gender Equality? Changing Perspectives on Work and Welfare in Norway
In many EU countries, the so-called social investment perspective has provided new arguments for active welfare state policies. The social investment perspective is characterized by emphasizing the role of the state to increase participation in employment by investing in the working capacity of the population—particularly women—through activation programmes and social policies. In this article we depart from recent debates surrounding this perspe…
The Invisible Second Generation? Statistical Discrimination and Immigrant Stereotypes in Employment Processes in Norway
Although children of immigrants usually have acquired fluency in the majority language as well as domestic educational qualifications and work experience, recent quantitative and experimental studies indicate that the ‘second generation’ experiences discrimination in accessing entry-level jobs in Europe. In this article, I take as my point of departure a field experiment documenting that descendants of Pakistani immigrants indeed face discriminat…
Citizenship, integration and the quest for social cohesion
After having coordinated their nationality laws since the late 19th century, the Scandinavian countries have moved in distinctly different directions in this field since the turn of the millennium. Today Sweden has one of the most liberal citizenship policies in Europe, while Denmark has one of the most restrictive. Norway occupies an intermediate position between its Scandinavian neighbours. In this article, I compare the differences in Scandina…
Hans Erik Næss
Etnisk diskriminering i arbeidsmarkedet
At diskriminering er notorisk vanskelig å måle vitenskapelig, har preget både politikk og forskning på innvandringsfeltet i Norge i en årrekke. Samtidig er omfanget av kunnskap om dette fenomenet etter hvert blitt så stort at det er på tide å bevege seg fra spørsmålet om diskriminering forekommer til hvordan det kan forklares og hva som kan gjøres med det. I denne artikkelen presenterer jeg state of the art for forskningen på etnisk diskriminerin…
The context of employment discrimination
Although field experiments have documented the contemporary relevance of discrimination in employment, theories developed to explain the dynamics of differential treatment cannot account for differences across organizational and institutional contexts. In this article, I address this shortcoming by presenting the main empirical findings from a multi-method research project, in which a field experiment of ethnic discrimination in the Norwegian lab…
Ethnic Penalties in Western Labour Markets
This article reviews the comparative literature on ethnic penalties in Western labour markets. Although there is considerable variation between ethnic groups, immigrants and descendants, and across national contexts in terms of the magnitude of ethnic penalties, ethnic minorities of non-European origin experience disadvantages in all contexts. Discussing the striking cross-national variation, I highlight the impact of the economy, legacies of imm…
Et tidsskrift for bredden i norsk samfunnsforskning - A journal covering all Norwegian social research
Kumulativ diskriminering
Artikkel basert på en metastudie av forskning om diskriminering av samer, nasjonale minoriteter og nyere innvandrergrupper i Norge
Discrimination of the Second Generation
Meta-analysis of field experiments shows no change in racial discrimination in hiring over time
Significance Many scholars have argued that discrimination in American society has decreased over time, while others point to persisting race and ethnic gaps and subtle forms of prejudice. The question has remained unsettled due to the indirect methods often used to assess levels of discrimination. We assess trends in hiring discrimination against African Americans and Latinos over time by analyzing callback rates from all available field experim…
En bauta i norsk samfunnsforskning – fremdeles
Citizenship in the Nordic Countries
The Nordic countries have a century-long tradition for cooperation within the area of citizenship law. Since the mid-1970s, however, the Nordic countries have moved in different directions. Today, the Nordic countries represent the entire continuum in European citizenship policies – from liberal Sweden to restrictive Denmark, with the other Nordic neighbors in between. This report reviews the historical development and the current citizenship reg…
Symposium
The making and unmaking of ethnic boundaries in the public sphere
This article employs theories of ethnic boundary-making to explore when and under what conditions ethnicity and religious background shape minorities' experiences when participating in the public sphere in Norway. Drawing on in-depth interviews with elite individuals with various ethnic and religious minority backgrounds, the analysis calls into question interpretations made in other studies, which tend to imply an all-encompassing significance o…
Ethnicity as skill
Immigrants are often concentrated in particular, often low-waged, segments of the labour market and employers tend to assume that immigrants posit (soft) skills which make them particularly suited for specific tasks. Less scholarly attention has been given to the real and perceived content of these skills and how employers may shift their view over time. We contribute to the literature by examining changing ethnic employment hierarchies in two im…
Do Some Countries Discriminate More than Others? Evidence from 97 Field Experiments of Racial Discrimination in Hiring
Comparing levels of discrimination across countries can provide a window into large-scale social and political factors often described as the root of discrimination. Because of difficulties in measurement, however, little is established about variation in hiring discrimination across countries. We address this gap through a formal meta-analysis of 97 field experiments of discrimination incorporating more than 200,000 job applications in nine coun…
The Making of Immigrant Niches in an Affluent Welfare State
This article explores how immigrant niches have emerged within two traditional working-class industries in Norway. Drawing on extensive case studies in urban and coastal areas, we analyze how employers perceive the availability and desirability of native-born and immigrant workers and discuss how these perceptions are related to underlying changes in the structure of employment. The article contributes to the literature by developing a general mo…
Innvandring og sosial mobilitet – forskere møterfagfeller
Ubehaget i migrasjonsforskningen
Norsk migrasjonsforskning kan se tilbake på en snart 50 år lang historie. Mens det hele startet med sosiologen Aud Korbøls banebrytende studie av de første pakistanske arbeidsinnvandrerne som hadde kommet til Oslo i 1970, er feltet i dag preget av et mangfold av fagdisipliner, teoretiske perspektiver og empiriske innfallsvinkler. Historien om norsk migrasjonsforskning er imidlertid også en historie om faglig konflikt, steile fronter og kamper om …
Do terrorist attacks affect ethnic discrimination in the labour market? Evidence from two randomized field experiments
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 that we conducted in Oslo. The first experiment was conducted before the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway; the second experiment was conducted after the attacks. In both experiments, applicants with a typical Pakistani name wer…
Political science (37 obras) · Sociology (33 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Migration and Labor Dynamics (18 obras) · Economics (17 obras) · Ethnic group (16 obras) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (16 obras) · Immigration (15 obras) · Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research (15 obras) · Politics (15 obras)