Olavi
Kangas
Docent, Social Policy
Sociology
PhD, Docent
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Biography
Olli Kangas is Director of Equal Society research programme at the Academy of Finland and Professor of Practice at the Department of Social Research, University of Turku. Previously he has been the Director of Governmental Relations (2015-2018) and Research Director (2007-2014) at the Social Insurance Institution of Finland. He has worked as Olof Palme Professor at the Uppsala University; H.C. Andersen Professor at the University of Southern Denmark, Professor at the Danish National Institute for Social Research (2004-2007), Professor in Social Policy, University of Turku (1994-2003) and research fellow at the Academy of Finland 1987-1993. His research interests revolve around comparative analysis of social policy systems, their causes and consequences in terms of macro-economy, income distribution and legitimacy of social institutions. Currently he is the leader of the research group evaluating the Finnish basic income experiment.
Publications
Raamatun pakolaiset (2021)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Increased Trust in the Finnish UBI Experiment - Is the Secret Universalism or Less Bureaucracy? Basic Income Studies, (2021)
Basic Income Studies
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Aavan meren tällä puolen... (2021)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Welfare state entry and exit over the life course: Employment and the sustainability of the welfare state in different worlds of welfare (2020)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))Speaking to those who know it best. Does participation in an experiment explain citizens’ attitudes to basic income? (2020)
Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Keskimäärin fiksua väkeä? (2020)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Työllisyysasteen mantra (2020)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Kaipolan paperi ja työttömän turva (2020)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))
Mitä perustulosta saatiin selville (2020)
Turun Sanomat
(Yleistajuinen artikkeli tai blogikirjoitus (E1))