Research

Publications

Westerman, J., & Syk, E. (2023). Skills and structural change. In M. Tåhlin (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Skills and Inequality (pp. 51–63). Edward Elgar Publishing.
Syk, E. (2022). Development of job quality in Sweden 1968–2010. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 82, 100745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rssm.2022.100745

Syk, E., Westerman, J., & Halldén, K. (2025). Peripheral labor market status and job quality in the Swedish labor market 1968–2020. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/vs549_v1
Syk, E., Thaning, M., & Nieuwenhuis, R. (2025). Intergenerational inequalities in economic volatility. SocArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/jvd4e_v1

Syk, E. (2025). Quantifying (ine) quality: Job quality over half a century in Sweden and Europe (Doctoral dissertation, Sociologiska institutionen, Stockholm University).

Syk, E. Career development in job quality: An intragenerational study of Sweden from 1968 to 2020.
Syk, E. Class inequality in non-monetary job quality: 20 years of evidence from Europe.
Syk, E., Thaning, M., & Molinder, J. Stratification and inequality: A century of social class and earnings disparities in Sweden.
Syk, E., & Shahbazian, R. Class or character: Big Five personality traits as predictors of social stratification and mobility outcomes.
Syk, E. On the measurement and conceptualization of job quality: The person-position distinction and the case against wages.
Bihagen, E., Härkönen, J., Shahbazian, R., & Syk, E. Do occupational scales tell the same story? Evidence from gendered career trajectories across cohorts in Sweden.
Bihagen, E., Shahbazian, R., & Syk, E. Measuring mobility in motion: The effect of occupational changes across the life course on intergenerational occupational mobility.

Westerman, J., Andersson, A. B., & Syk, E. Towards a refined measure of occupational skill requirements (upcoming). Edward Elgar.
Bihagen, E., Halldén, K., Shahbazian, R., Syk, E., & Westerman, J. Anställningstider i Sverige från 1960-talet fram till i dag. In Välfärd och Livsvillkor (Liber, ISBN 47-15832-4).
Halldén, K., Syk, E., & Westerman, J. Arbetskvalitet och psykisk ohälsa i arbetsmarknadens utkanter. In Välfärd och Livsvillkor (Liber, ISBN 47-15832-4).
Bihagen, E., Härkönen, J., Shahbazian, R., & Syk, E. Kvinnors och mäns karriärer för generationer födda från 1930-talet till 90-talet. In Välfärd och Livsvillkor (Liber, ISBN 47-15832-4).