Einar Overbye
Biographic Data
| ID | 4174320 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Einar Overbye |
| GIVEN NAMES | Einar |
| FAMILY NAME | Overbye |
| SIGNATURE | ØVERBYE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for Social Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3957-4821 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats
To study discrimination in labour/housing markets, and among street-level bureaucrats in the welfare state, present both theoretical and methodological challenges. In the sociological study of discrimination, experiments have seldom been used to study how street-level bureaucrats make their decisions. The context of decision-making is different in the state and in markets, but experimental methods can provide new knowledge of how perceptions of d…
Er selektivisme bedre enn universalisme i velferdspolitikken?
Det har blitt stadig vanligere å karakterisere norske velferdsordninger som «universelle», også i autoritative politiske dokumenter. Det reiser spørsmålet om hva som karakteriserer universelle velferdsordninger, og om universalisme alltid er å foretrekke framfor selektivisme. Artikkelen drøfter disse spørsmålene gjennom en detaljert redegjørelse av karakteristika ved ulike velferdsordninger. Nærstudien viser at demarkasjonslinjen mellom universal…
Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities in Activation Programme? Evidence from a Vignette Experiment
We conducted a vignette experiment involving 470 Norwegian front-line workers to investigate whether their decisions to sanction non-compliance of activation requirements varied with the ethnicity of the welfare claimant. This is the first vignette experiment on ethnic discrimination in the administration of activation programmes in Europe. The study shows that front-line workers did not sanction claimants with a North African name more often tha…
Ageing and the Transition to Retirement: A Comparative Analysis of European Welfare States
Prospective register-based study of the impact of immigration on educational inequalities in mortality in Norway
The widening of educational inequality in mortality during the 1990s and 2000s in Norway was not due to immigration. Immigration rather contributed to slightly lower overall mortality in the population and a less steep educational gradient in mortality
Social inclusion of people with disabilities. National and international perspectives
Arie Rimmerman has written a book on disability policy, emphasising the “human rights turn” that has taken place in this policy field. The human rights turn is related to the ratification of the Co
Extending social security in developing countries: A review of three main strategies
The article discusses strategies to extend social security cover‐age in developing and newly industrialised countries. The three major options are to extend social insurance coverage , to rely on mutuals or micro‐insurance or to bring in social assistance in one form or another. Social insurance usually covers small population segments. Insiders are seldom willing to extend coverage to poorer groups, as poorer groups are usually higher‐risk group…
Når er det rasjonelt å bruke ordet solidaritet
Mainstream Pattern, Deviant Cases: The New Zealand and Danish Pension Systems in an International Context
In the late 19th and early 20th century, indus trialized countries introduced a variety of pen sion schemes to sustain elderly people. These initial schemes may broadly be classified as 'contributory' or 'assistance-based'. However, over time, there has been a convergence to wards dual mandatory systems where the ma jority receive contribution- based pensions, while the poor depend on tax-financed in come-tested assistance schemes. Within this ge…
Convergence Theory Reconsidered: The Politics of Pensions in Scandinavia and Australia
Scandinavia and Australia share a similar sequence of pension-political developments. Starting out from means-tested minimum pensions, these countries have moved towards a dual mandatory pension structure in which the working population has access to compulsory second-tier schemes, while marginal groups are served through income-tested minimum benefits or pension supplements. However, different countries have chosen different organisational means…
Democracy as insurance
How Do “Organizational Designs” Influence Welfare Politics? A Study of the Nordic Pension Systems
The interplay between organizational structure and political behaviour is one of the focal points of political science. How and to what extent do existing organizational structures constrain and channel future political decision‐making? One specific hypothesis from the welfare literature provides the starting‐point for this article: Korpi's argument that “institutional” welfare arrangements grant the poor better welfare provisions than “marginal”…
Pension Politics in the Nordic Countries: A Case Study
The Nordic countries are often portrayed as belonging to a separate welfare regime, characterized by “institutional” welfare arrangements crowding out private welfare. However, a closer look reveals important differences in the public/private welfare mix. By focusing on pension politics in particular, the article argues that these policy differences stem from institutional differences which have shaped the pension-political game differently in th…
Making a case for the rational, self‐regarding, ‘ethical’ voter… and solving the ‘Paradox of not voting’ in the process
The article offers a new solution to one of the major puzzles facing the public choice‐paradigm: the ‘Paradox of not voting’. Utilizing a principal‐agent model, I argue that voting may be regarded as a rational investment decision: not an investment in a particular electorial outcome, but in a type of reputation which the individual is interested in maintaining when carrying out his/her everyday activities. This solution not only solves the parad…
Explaining welfare spending
Convergence in Policy Outcomes: Social Security Systems in Perspective
A central question in the welfare state debate has been whether or not social policies in industrialized countries converge. Originally linked to the logic of industrialism perspective, this idea has been criticized by researchers focusing on differences in timing and differences in the institutional set up of social security schemes across countries. Nonetheless, I argue that social security arrangements in European as well as Anglo-American cou…
Convergence in Policy Outcomes: Social Security Systems in Perspective
A central question in the welfare state debate has been whether or not social policies in industrialized countries converge. Originally linked to the logic of industrialism perspective, this idea has been criticized by researchers focusing on differences in timing and differences in the institutional set up of social security schemes across countries. Nonetheless, I argue that social security arrangements in European as well as Anglo-American cou…
Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities in Activation Programme? Evidence from a Vignette Experiment
We conducted a vignette experiment involving 470 Norwegian front-line workers to investigate whether their decisions to sanction non-compliance of activation requirements varied with the ethnicity of the welfare claimant. This is the first vignette experiment on ethnic discrimination in the administration of activation programmes in Europe. The study shows that front-line workers did not sanction claimants with a North African name more often tha…
Explaining welfare spending
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats
To study discrimination in labour/housing markets, and among street-level bureaucrats in the welfare state, present both theoretical and methodological challenges. In the sociological study of discrimination, experiments have seldom been used to study how street-level bureaucrats make their decisions. The context of decision-making is different in the state and in markets, but experimental methods can provide new knowledge of how perceptions of d…
Pension Politics in the Nordic Countries: A Case Study
The Nordic countries are often portrayed as belonging to a separate welfare regime, characterized by “institutional” welfare arrangements crowding out private welfare. However, a closer look reveals important differences in the public/private welfare mix. By focusing on pension politics in particular, the article argues that these policy differences stem from institutional differences which have shaped the pension-political game differently in th…
Mainstream Pattern, Deviant Cases: The New Zealand and Danish Pension Systems in an International Context
In the late 19th and early 20th century, indus trialized countries introduced a variety of pen sion schemes to sustain elderly people. These initial schemes may broadly be classified as 'contributory' or 'assistance-based'. However, over time, there has been a convergence to wards dual mandatory systems where the ma jority receive contribution- based pensions, while the poor depend on tax-financed in come-tested assistance schemes. Within this ge…
Convergence Theory Reconsidered: The Politics of Pensions in Scandinavia and Australia
Scandinavia and Australia share a similar sequence of pension-political developments. Starting out from means-tested minimum pensions, these countries have moved towards a dual mandatory pension structure in which the working population has access to compulsory second-tier schemes, while marginal groups are served through income-tested minimum benefits or pension supplements. However, different countries have chosen different organisational means…
How Do “Organizational Designs” Influence Welfare Politics? A Study of the Nordic Pension Systems
The interplay between organizational structure and political behaviour is one of the focal points of political science. How and to what extent do existing organizational structures constrain and channel future political decision‐making? One specific hypothesis from the welfare literature provides the starting‐point for this article: Korpi's argument that “institutional” welfare arrangements grant the poor better welfare provisions than “marginal”…
Convergence in Policy Outcomes: Social Security Systems in Perspective
A central question in the welfare state debate has been whether or not social policies in industrialized countries converge. Originally linked to the logic of industrialism perspective, this idea has been criticized by researchers focusing on differences in timing and differences in the institutional set up of social security schemes across countries. Nonetheless, I argue that social security arrangements in European as well as Anglo-American cou…
Making a case for the rational, self‐regarding, ‘ethical’ voter… and solving the ‘Paradox of not voting’ in the process
The article offers a new solution to one of the major puzzles facing the public choice‐paradigm: the ‘Paradox of not voting’. Utilizing a principal‐agent model, I argue that voting may be regarded as a rational investment decision: not an investment in a particular electorial outcome, but in a type of reputation which the individual is interested in maintaining when carrying out his/her everyday activities. This solution not only solves the parad…
Explaining welfare spending
Democracy as insurance
How Do “Organizational Designs” Influence Welfare Politics? A Study of the Nordic Pension Systems
The interplay between organizational structure and political behaviour is one of the focal points of political science. How and to what extent do existing organizational structures constrain and channel future political decision‐making? One specific hypothesis from the welfare literature provides the starting‐point for this article: Korpi's argument that “institutional” welfare arrangements grant the poor better welfare provisions than “marginal”…
Pension Politics in the Nordic Countries: A Case Study
The Nordic countries are often portrayed as belonging to a separate welfare regime, characterized by “institutional” welfare arrangements crowding out private welfare. However, a closer look reveals important differences in the public/private welfare mix. By focusing on pension politics in particular, the article argues that these policy differences stem from institutional differences which have shaped the pension-political game differently in th…
Mainstream Pattern, Deviant Cases: The New Zealand and Danish Pension Systems in an International Context
In the late 19th and early 20th century, indus trialized countries introduced a variety of pen sion schemes to sustain elderly people. These initial schemes may broadly be classified as 'contributory' or 'assistance-based'. However, over time, there has been a convergence to wards dual mandatory systems where the ma jority receive contribution- based pensions, while the poor depend on tax-financed in come-tested assistance schemes. Within this ge…
Convergence Theory Reconsidered: The Politics of Pensions in Scandinavia and Australia
Scandinavia and Australia share a similar sequence of pension-political developments. Starting out from means-tested minimum pensions, these countries have moved towards a dual mandatory pension structure in which the working population has access to compulsory second-tier schemes, while marginal groups are served through income-tested minimum benefits or pension supplements. However, different countries have chosen different organisational means…
Extending social security in developing countries: A review of three main strategies
The article discusses strategies to extend social security cover‐age in developing and newly industrialised countries. The three major options are to extend social insurance coverage , to rely on mutuals or micro‐insurance or to bring in social assistance in one form or another. Social insurance usually covers small population segments. Insiders are seldom willing to extend coverage to poorer groups, as poorer groups are usually higher‐risk group…
Når er det rasjonelt å bruke ordet solidaritet
Social inclusion of people with disabilities. National and international perspectives
Arie Rimmerman has written a book on disability policy, emphasising the “human rights turn” that has taken place in this policy field. The human rights turn is related to the ratification of the Co
Prospective register-based study of the impact of immigration on educational inequalities in mortality in Norway
The widening of educational inequality in mortality during the 1990s and 2000s in Norway was not due to immigration. Immigration rather contributed to slightly lower overall mortality in the population and a less steep educational gradient in mortality
Ageing and the Transition to Retirement: A Comparative Analysis of European Welfare States
Er selektivisme bedre enn universalisme i velferdspolitikken?
Det har blitt stadig vanligere å karakterisere norske velferdsordninger som «universelle», også i autoritative politiske dokumenter. Det reiser spørsmålet om hva som karakteriserer universelle velferdsordninger, og om universalisme alltid er å foretrekke framfor selektivisme. Artikkelen drøfter disse spørsmålene gjennom en detaljert redegjørelse av karakteristika ved ulike velferdsordninger. Nærstudien viser at demarkasjonslinjen mellom universal…
Discrimination Against Ethnic Minorities in Activation Programme? Evidence from a Vignette Experiment
We conducted a vignette experiment involving 470 Norwegian front-line workers to investigate whether their decisions to sanction non-compliance of activation requirements varied with the ethnicity of the welfare claimant. This is the first vignette experiment on ethnic discrimination in the administration of activation programmes in Europe. The study shows that front-line workers did not sanction claimants with a North African name more often tha…
Who deserves to be sanctioned? A vignette experiment of ethnic discrimination among street-level bureaucrats
To study discrimination in labour/housing markets, and among street-level bureaucrats in the welfare state, present both theoretical and methodological challenges. In the sociological study of discrimination, experiments have seldom been used to study how street-level bureaucrats make their decisions. The context of decision-making is different in the state and in markets, but experimental methods can provide new knowledge of how perceptions of d…
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