Karin Kristensson

Short presentation

In her dissertation project, Karin investigates the ongoing increase of precarious low-wage jobs in the service sector. Karin investigates how such jobs influence individual, as well as, macro level -outcomes. Employing a variety of statistical methods on registry data, Karin investigates social class and segmentation, especially related to working conditions for women and migrants. Karin is affiliated with Uppsala Center for Labor Studies and The Swedish Institute for Social Research (su)

Keywords

• inequality
• quantitative methods
• computational social science
• social stratification
• social class
• labour market polarization
• industrial relations