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- Gustafson, Per, 1966-, et al.
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Language use and social inclusion in internationalretirement migration
- 2017
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In: Social Inclusion. - : COGITATIO PRESS. - 2183-2803. ; 5:4, s. 69-77
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The migration of older people in search for improved quality of life has become an important form of human mobility, andpopular retirement destinations are often highly multilingual settings. This article explores language use and social inclu-sion in international retirement migration through a case study of Scandinavian retirees in the Alicante province in Spain.It examines the linguistic landscape they meet, their language use and their inclusion in their new home country. Inter-views with retired migrants and key local individuals show that many migrants try to learn the host country language, butthat these attempts are often not very successful. As a result, they frequently use either their native language or Englishfor everyday communication. This article elaborates on three theoretical and political notions of inclusion—assimilation,multiculturalism and civic integration—and discusses how retired migrants’ language use can be interpreted in the light ofthese notions.
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- Gustafson, Per, 1966-
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Spousal age differences and synchronised retirement
- 2017
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In: Ageing & Society. - 0144-686X .- 1469-1779. ; 37:4, s. 777-803
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Many couples want to retire together even if spouses differ in age. Drawing on theories of leisure complementarity, gender roles and social status, this article uses comprehensive Swedish register data from 2002 to 2010 to explore synchronised retirement and its association with spousal age differences and other socio-demographic factors. Synchronisation rates in dual-earner couples (N = 83,986) were 10 per cent for retirement the same calendar year and 25 per cent for retirement the same or the following year. Contrary to theoretical expectations, synchronisation was more common in women-older couples than in men-older couples, although this was largely a consequence of the skewed distribution of age differences. Moreover, spouses' education, incomes, assets, employment and health were differently associated with synchronisation in same-age, men-older and women-older couples. In the total population, average retirement age differed very little between synchronising couples and other couples. Yet women who synchronised retired at an earlier age than other women, whereas men who synchronised retired later than other men. This was partly an effect of the predominance of men-older couples, but men in men-older couples were also more likely than women in women-older couples to delay retirement in order to synchronise.
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- Gustafson, Per, 1966-
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The Gendered Economics of Synchronized Retirement
- 2018
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In: Research on Aging. - : SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. - 0164-0275 .- 1552-7573. ; 40:7, s. 623-644
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Women generally receive lower pensions than men, and research on gender and pensions has identified a number of factors underlying this pattern. The present article examines one factor that has largely gone unnoticedsynchronized retirement. In most married couples, the husband is older than his wife, yet many couples prefer to retire together. At the same time, pension systems are increasingly designed to discourage early retirement and reward late retirement. If younger wives and older husbands tend to synchronize their retirement, this may reinforce gendered income inequalities among older persons. Analyses of register data on Swedish married couples provide empirical support for this argument. Comparisons of their pre- and postretirement incomes show that women who synchronized retirement with their husbands had, in relative terms, lower postretirement incomes than other women, whereas men who synchronized had higher postretirement incomes than other men.
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- Gustafson, Per, 1966-, et al.
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Understanding Participatory Governance : An Analysis of Participants' Motives
- 2017
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In: American Review of Public Administration. - : SAGE Publications. - 0275-0740 .- 1552-3357. ; 47:5, s. 538-549
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Despite the growing body of literature on participatory and collaborative governance, little is known about citizens' motives for participation in such new governance arrangements. The present article argues that knowledge about these motives is essential for understanding the quality and nature of participatory governance and its potential contribution to the overall political and administrative system. Survey data were used to explore participants' motives for participating in a large-scale urban renewal program in Stockholm, Sweden. The program was neighborhood-based, characterized by self-selected and repeated participation, and designed to influence local decisions on the use of public resources. Three types of motives were identified among the participants: (a) Common good motives concerned improving the neighborhood in general and contributing knowledge and competence. (b) Self-interest motives reflected a desire to improve one's own political efficacy and to promote the interest of one's own group or family. (c) Professional competence motives represented a largely apolitical type of motive, often based on a professional role. Different motives were expressed by different categories of participants and were also associated with different perceptions concerning program outcomes. Further analysis suggested that participatory governance may represent both an opportunity for marginalized groups to empower themselves and an opportunity for more privileged groups to act as local citizen representatives and articulate the interests of their neighborhoods. These findings call for a more complex understanding of the role and potential benefits of participatory governance.
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- Nilsson, Johan, 1987, et al.
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Chemistry of supported palladium nanoparticles during methane oxidation
- 2015
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In: ACS Catalysis. - : American Chemical Society (ACS). - 2155-5435. ; 5:4, s. 2481-2489
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Time-resolved in situ energy-dispersive X-ray absorption spectroscopy and mass spectrometry are used to correlate changes in chemical state of alumina and ceria supported palladium nanoparticles with changes in activity and selectivity for methane oxidation. Specifically, modulation excitation spectroscopy experiments are carried out by periodically cycling between net-reducing and net-oxidizing reaction conditions. The XANES and EXAFS data show that the palladium nanoparticles are readily bulk oxidized when exposed to oxygen, forming a PdO-like phase, and reduced back to a reduced (metal) phase when oxygen is removed from the feed. The difference between the two support materials is most noticeable at the switches between net-oxidizing and net-reducing reaction conditions. Here, a brief reduction in conversion is observed for the alumina supported catalyst, but for the ceria this reduction in conversion is minor or not observed at all. This difference is attributed to differences in the oxidation kinetics and the oxygen storage capability of ceria.
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- Tånnander, Christina, et al.
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Spot the pleasant people! Navigating the cocktail party buzz
- 2019
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In: Proceedings Interspeech 2019, 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association. ; , s. 4220-4224
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- We present an experimental platform for making voice likability assessments that are decoupled from individual voices, and instead capture voice characteristics over groups of speakers. We employ methods that we have previously used for other purposes to create the Cocktail platform, where respondents navigate in a voice buzz made up of about 400 voices on a touch screen. They then choose the location where they find the voice buzz most pleasant. Since there is no image or message on the screen, the platform can be used by visually impaired people, who often need to rely on spoken text, on the same premises as seeing people. In this paper, we describe the platform and its motivation along with our analysis method. We conclude by presenting two experiments in which we verify that the platform behaves as expected: one simple sanity test, and one experiment with voices grouped according to their mean pitch variance.
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