Research
Research
Godechot, Olivier, Nils Neumann, Lasse Henriksen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Feng Hou, Naomi Kodama, Zoltán Lippényi, Silvia Maja Melzer, Halil Sabanci, Max Thaning, Paula Apascaritei, Dustin Avent Holt, Nina Bandelj, István Boza, Marta M Elvira, Gergely Hajdu, Alena Křižkova, Andrew Penner, Andreja Poje, William Rainey, Mirna Safi, Matthew Soener, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. Rapid earnings growth in finance concentrates top earnings in a few large cities. Accepted for publication in Nature Cities.
Larsen, Edvard, Aleksander Madsen, and Are Skeie Hermansen. 2025. Blending in or moving on? Immigrant coworkers, assimilation, and employee turnover. Advance access in Social Forces.
Borgen, Nicolai, Are Skeie Hermansen, and Astrid Marie Jorde Sandsør. 2025. Who climbs the Ivory Tower? Social origins of academic faculty in an egalitarian welfare state. Socius 11.
Hermansen, Are Skeie, Andrew Penner, Marta Elvira, Olivier Godechot, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Feng Hou, Zoltan Lippényi, Trond Petersen, Malte Reichelt, Halil Sabanci, Mirna Safi, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, and Erik Vickstrom. 2025. Pay gap between nationals and migrants mainly due to unequal access to high-paying jobs. Nature.
Hermansen, Are Skeie, Andrew Penner, Marta Elvira, Olivier Godechot, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Feng Hou, Zoltan Lippényi, Trond Petersen, Malte Reichelt, Halil Sabanci, Mirna Safi, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, and Erik Vickstrom. 2025. Immigrant–native pay gap driven by lack of access to high-paying jobs. Nature 644, 969–975.
Lillehagen, Mats, and Are Skeie Hermansen. 2025. Entering the mainstream economy? Workplace segregation and immigrant assimilation. Social Forces, 103(4), 1508–1537.
Evensen, Miriam, Cools, Sara, and Are Skeie Hermansen. 2024 Adolescent health inequality across immigrant generations. Journal of Adolescent Health, 2024, 1–9.
Godechot, Olivier, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, István Boza, Lasse Henriksen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Feng Hou, Naomi Kodama, Alena Křížková, Jiwook Jung, Zoltán Lippényi, Silvia Maja Melzer, Eunmi Mun, Halil Sabanci, Max Thaning, Dustin Avent-Holt, Nina Bandelj, Paula Apascaritei, Alexis Baudour, David Cort, Marta Elvira, Gergely Hajdu, Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela, Joseph King, Andrew Penner, Trond Petersen, Andreja Poje, William Rainey, Mirna Safi, and Matthew Soener. 2024. The Great Separation: Top earner segregation at work in advanced capitalist economies. American Journal of Sociology, 123(2), 439–495.
* Recipient of the RC28 Significant Scholarship in Social Stratification Award 2025
* Recipient of Gould Prize 2025 for best article in the American Journal of Sociology in 2023–2024
Han, JooHee, and Are Skeie Hermansen. 2024. Wage disparities across immigrant generations: education, segregation, or unequal pay? Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 77(4), 598–625.
Drange, Ida, Håvard Helland, and Are Skeie Hermansen. 2024. Unionization, licensure, and workplace variation in immigrant pay gaps. Socio-Economic Review, 22(2), 701–736.
Borgen, Solveig T. and Are Skeie Hermansen. 2023. Horizontal advantage: Choice of postsecondary field of study among children of immigrants. Demography, 60(4), 1031–1058.
Hermansen, Are Skeie. 2023. Ethnic enclaves, early school leaving, and adolescent crime among immigrant youth. European Sociological Review, 39(3), 400–417.
Penner, Andrew, Trond Petersen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Anthony Rainey, István Boza, Marta Elvira, Olivier Godechot, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Feng Hou, Aleksandra Kanjuo Mrčela, Joe King, Naomi Kodama, Tali Kristal, Alena Křížková, Zoltán Lippényi, Silvia Maja Melzer, Eunmi Mun, Paula Apascaritei, Dustin Avent-Holt, Nina Bandelj, Gergely Hajdu, Jiwook Jung, Andreja Poje, Halil Sabanci, Mirna Safi, Matthew Soener, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, and Zaibu Tufail. 2023. Within-job gender pay inequality in 15 countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 184–189.
Godechot, Olivier, Nils Neumann, Paula Apascaritei, István Boza, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Feng Hou, Jiwook Jung, Naomi Kodama, Alena Křížková, Zoltán Lippényi, Marta Elvira, Silvia Maja Melzer, Eunmi Mun, Halil Sabanci, Matthew Soener, and Max Thaning. 2023. Ups and downs in finance, ups without downs in inequality. Socio-Economic Review, 21(3), 1601–1627.
Hermansen, Are Skeie, Pål Oskar Hundebo and Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund. 2022. Spatial assimilation at a halt? Intergenerational persistence in neighborhood contexts among immigrant minorities in Norway. International Migration Review, 56(4), 1069–1106.
Hermansen, Are Skeie and Andrew Penner. 2022. Trends in women’s and men’s college majors across four decades in Norway. Socius, 8, 1–2.
Hermansen, Are Skeie. 2022. Visualizing intergenerational immigrant assimilation at work. Socius, 8, 1–2.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, Anthony Rainey, Dustin Avent-Holt, Nina Bandelj, István Boza, David Cort, Olivier Godechot, Gergely Hajdu, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Feng Hou, Jiwook Jung, Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela, Joe King, Naomi Kodama, Tali Kristal, Alena Křížková, Zoltán Lippényi, Silvia Maja Melzer, Eunmi Mun, Andrew Penner, Trond Petersen, Andreja Poje, Mirna Safi, Max Thaning, and Zaibu Tufail. 2020. Rising between workplace inequalities in high income countries. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(17), 9277–9283.
* Featured on the cover and with related commentary (Grusky, David. 2020. A promising front in the war on inequality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(19), 10105–10107)
Hermansen, Are Skeie, Nicolai T. Borgen, and Arne Mastekaasa. 2020. Long-term trends in adult socioeconomic resemblance between former schoolmates and neighboring children. European Sociological Review, 36(3), 366–380.
Godechot, Olivier, Paula Apascaritei, István Boza, Martin Hällsten, Lasse Folke Henriksen, Are Skeie Hermansen, Feng Hou, Jiwook Jung, Alena Křížková, Zoltán Lippényi, Elvira Marta, Silvia Maja Melzer, Eunmi Mun, Naomi Kodama, and Max Thaning. 2020. Size and evolution of the financial wage premium. Regards Croisés sur L’Économie, 27(2), 97–109.
Hermansen, Are Skeie. 2020. «Norsk innvandringsforskning må kunne sies å være i puberteten» – noen refleksjoner 25 år etter debatten rundt Mot en ny norsk underklasse. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning, 61(1), 53–62.
Hermansen, Are Skeie. 2017. Age at arrival and life chances among childhood immigrants. Demography, 54(1), 15–34.
* Poster prize at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, New Orleans
Hermansen, Are Skeie. 2017. Et egalitært og velferdsstatlig integreringsparadoks? Om sosioøkonomisk integrering av innvandrere og deres etterkommere i Norge. Norsk sosiologisk tidsskrift, 54(1), 201–229.
Hermansen, Are Skeie. 2016. Moving up or falling behind? Intergenerational socioeconomic transmission among children of immigrants in Norway. European Sociological Review, 32(5), 675–689.
* Winner of Best English language article from 2016, Norwegian Sociological Association; Winner of Best scientific study from 2016, Kunnskap Oslo
Hermansen, Are Skeie and Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund. 2015. The impact of immigrant classmates on educational outcomes. Social Forces, 94(2), 615–646.
Hermansen, Are Skeie. 2013. Occupational attainment among children of immigrants in Norway: Bottlenecks into employment––equal access to advantaged positions? European Sociological Review, 29(3), 517–534.
Mohn, Ferdinand, and Are Skeie Hermansen. 2013. Kan vi forbedre våre årsaksslutninger ved å tegne grafer? En innføring i den kontrafaktiske modellen og kausale grafer (DAGs). Sosiologi i dag, 43(3), 9–38.
Hermansen, Are Skeie. 2007. Exceptional individualism? American individualism and socioeconomic inequality. Sosiologisk årbok, (3-4), 81–117.
Book Chapters
Hermansen, Are Skeie, Jon Horgen Friberg and Arnfinn Midtbøen. 2023. Occupational skills, ethnic stratification, and labor market assimilation across immigrant generations. In: Tåhlin, Michael (Ed.), Skills and inequality: an emerging research agenda. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.
Petersen, Trond, Are Skeie Hermansen and Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund. 2022. Likestilling: kjønn, arbeid og familiepolitikkens gjennombrudd. In: Frønes, Ivar & Kjølsrød, Lise (Eds.), Det norske samfunn. Oslo: Gyldendal akademisk.
Hermansen, Are Skeie and Arnfinn Midtbøen. 2022. Etterkommere av innvandrere: mellom integrasjon og utenforskap? In: Frønes, Ivar & Kjølsrød, Lise (Eds.), Det norske samfunn. Oslo: Gyldendal akademisk.
Reisel, Liza, Are Skeie Hermansen and Marianne Takvam Kindt. 2019. Norway: Ethnic inequality in a social-democratic welfare state. In: Stevens, AJ & Dworkin, AG (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Ethnic and Racial Inequalities in Education. 2nd edition. London: Palgrave, Chapter 21, 843–884.