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Sebastian Sirén is a postdoctoral researcher at Uppsala University in the Department of Government. His research focuses on welfare state analysis, specifically examining the causes and consequences of social policy institutions from a cross-country comparative perspective. His dissertation explored the driving forces, mechanisms, and outcomes of social protection development in various contexts. He is currently engaged in a project funded by Forte, which investigates the distributional outcomes of changing social insurance institutions. This three-year research project, entitled "Not bad? The Swedish welfare state transformation and its impact on poverty and inequality from a comparative perspective," aims to analyze how changing social policies affect the economic standards of low-income households, particularly focusing on the heterogeneity of these impacts. Through longitudinal analyses of data covering 30 affluent welfare states from 1990 to the 2020s, Sirén combines various statistical techniques to explore trends and associations related to living standards and poverty reduction in vulnerable groups. His work provides insights into how policies can be refined to alleviate poverty and improve living conditions.
Uppsala University • Uppsala, Sweden
Conducting research on welfare state transformation and its effects on poverty and inequality.
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