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Wind energy in Sweden has developed substantially—despite the absence of a domestic wind-turbine industry, the use of hydropower and nuclear...
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Chinese Export Porcelain Collections in Sweden
The Gothenburg Historical Museum in Sweden houses a collection of 18th-century Chinese export porcelain. This paper provides a detailed introduction...
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Muslims in Sweden: Historical Developments, Present Issues, and Future Challenges
The present chapter is a literature review that focuses on the study of Islam and Muslims in Sweden in both the past and the present. The aim of the...
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Civil Society, Neighbourhood Diversity and Deprivation in UK and Sweden
This paper explores the relationship between neighbourhood level density of civil society organisations (CSOs), diversity, and deprivation. We...
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Forecasting Inequalities in Survival to Retirement Age by Socioeconomic Status in Denmark and Sweden
In Denmark and Sweden, statutory retirement age is indexed to life expectancy to account for mortality improvements in their populations. However,...
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The Economic Return to Labour Market Experience of Immigrants in Sweden
This study focuses on the value that employers assign to immigrants’ labour market experience, from both before and after immigration, using a...
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Olof Svart's Two Manors: Career and Ostentation in Early Sixteenth-Century Sweden and Finland
This paper focuses on two manors, Kumo in Finland and Duvnäs in Sweden, through early sixteenth-century written sources and material remains. Both...
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Fertility Declines Near the End of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence of the 2022 Birth Declines in Germany and Sweden
Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries faced short-term fertility declines in 2020–2021, a development which did not...
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Populism in Sweden: As a Political Ideology and a Communication Tactic
Populism is a highly contested and politicized word in the world of political science, and Sweden is no exception in this respect. It is a loaded and...
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Residential satisfaction in student housing: an empirical study in Stockholm, Sweden
Despite the widely-recognized importance of student housing in educational settings, the housing experience of university students remains...
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Translation and Psychometric Evaluation of the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS) for Use in Sweden
The objectives were to translate the University of Jyvaskyla Active Aging Scale (UJACAS) to Swedish, to establish semantic equivalence and evaluate...
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Talking About Audio: Analysing Book Industry Trade Talk on Audiobooks and Streaming in Sweden and Norway
Streaming services are creating significant shifts in Scandinavia, with audiobooks distributed through subscription-based services accounting for...
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Convergence and persistent contrasts in the determinants of working-age women in Sweden and Japan living alone since the 1990s
The increase in one-person households (OPHs) in the developed world is often seen as the result of a trend in which individualistic values and...
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Leaving the City: Counterurbanisation and Internal Return Migration in Sweden
This paper examines counterurban migration among young families with children in Sweden and the extent to which these moves reflect return migration,...
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Immigrant Organizations and Labor Market Integration: The Case of Sweden
In line with recent trends in sociology of migration, the paper presents major research findings on Swedish immigrant organizations (SIOs) and their...
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“We Never Say We Are Integrating People!” Interpretative Repertoires of Integration Among Local Stakeholders in Sweden
This article examines how local stakeholders in Scania, the southernmost county of Sweden, talk about integration. Drawing on 28 qualitative...
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Movers and Stayers: A Study of Emigration from Sweden 1993–2014
A standard proposition in the migration literature is that emigrants are not drawn randomly from their source population, but rather compose a...
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Cohabitation and Marriage Formation in Times of Fertility Decline: The Case of Sweden in the Twenty-First Century
Developments over time in the prevalence of marriage and cohabitation formation has long received much interest, but less is known about more recent...
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COVID-19 in the neighbourhood: the socio-spatial selectivity of severe COVID-19 cases in Sweden, March 2020–June 2021
In this paper we analyse spatial and temporal variation in the risk of intensive care unit (ICU) admission for COVID-19 in Sweden. The analysis is...
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Socio-psychological integration from the perspective of receiving communities: a cross-country comparison between Sweden, Germany, Croatia and Jordan
The socio-psychological dimension of integration is based on relations between the refugees and receiving community members revealed through...
