Other projects



Immigration project:
(see 196, 193 and 173 on publication list)
With Sheetal K. Chand, Department of Economics, Oslo.


Some economics of immigration from an LDC to a DC
In Federico Foders and Rolf J. Langhammer (eds.), 2006.
Labor Mobility and the World Economy,
Springer, Berlin and Heidelberg


Immigration policy and the Nordic welfare states.
Partly in: Introduction to symposium "Immigration and the Welfare State"
European Journal of Political Economy 23, 448-52 (2007)


Social Capital project:

(see 157, 166 and 170, 173, 178, 187 and 198 on publication list)


Social capital questionnaire


Two versions of papers on generalized trust. The first
is a short version and the second is better documented


The macro perspective on generalized trust
G.T. Svendsen and G.L.H. Svendsen, eds.,
Handbook of Public Choice.The Troika of Sociology, Political Science and Economics
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2009


Generalized trust. The macro perspective
Chapter 12, 331-57 in L. Sacconi, G.D. Antoni, eds.,
Social Capital, Corporate Social Responsibility and Performance
Palgrave Macmillan (December 2010) 2011


Other papers:

A check of Maddison’s gdp data
Benford’s Law with some range problems