Studies
Study programmes
- Master in Human Geography
- Master in Development Geography (discontinued)
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Publications
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The Effect of Retirement on Male Mortality. Quasi-experimental Evidence from Norway
July 11, 2018
This study executed by Adrian Farner Rogne and Astri Syse provides strong evidence that retirement does not have a causal effect on male mortality.
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Mobile with an agency: Negotiating the spatiotemporalities of the temp migrant worker
July 9, 2018
In this article, Kristina Zampoukosa, Hege Merete Knutsen, Maiken Bjerga Kiil and Gunilla Olofsdotter explore how Swedish agency warehouse workers and temp nurses working in Norway act and think in relation to mobility and how certain spatiotemporalities come into play in the mobility agency of individual workers
Research news
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INAS 2018: Gender discrimination in the labor market
June 7, 2018
Gunn Birkelund will speak at the INAS 2018 Conference at Stanford this week. The topic for her talk will be the field experiments of hiring processes across the world.
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The new feminism
Mar. 8, 2018
The #Metoo campaign that swept across Norway and the world before Christmas is part of what is called the fourth wave of feminism. Sociology professor Cathrine Holst thinks the women in today's women's struggle seem to be more united than they were at the turn of the millennium.