Geir Høgsnes

Geir Lennart Høgsnes (born 1950) is a Norwegian sociologist.

He graduated from the University of Oslo with a mag.art. degree in 1981, and took the dr.polit. degree in 1994. He was a researcher at the Institute for Social Research from 1981 to 1998, was an associate professor at Norwegian University of Science and Technology from 1996 to 1998 and the University of Oslo from 1999 to 2000. In 2000 he became a professor at the University of Oslo. There he led the Institute of Sociology and Human Geography (ISS) from 2002 to 2007.

He was the editor of the journal "Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning" from 1999 to 2005.

He has been interviewed about the disparity between men's and women's earnings [ [http://kilden.forskningsradet.no/c17224/artikkel/vis.html?tid=46890 KILDEN (Information Centre for Gender Research in Norway), 03.07.2007. Dad is awarded – mom is punished] ] and on strike actions by Norwegian workers [ [http://www.aftenposten.no/english/business/article952302.ece Aftenposten (newspaper), 20 January 2005, "Norwegians increasingly keen to strike"] ] He has done research on the role of women, elderly workers and immigrants in Norway's labor market. [ [http://www.uio.no/english/research/international/usa/sv.html University of Oslo – USA@UiO 2004, The Faculty of Social Sciences] ]

elected bibliography

*"Krone for krone. Lønnsforhandlinger og -fordelinger", 1999
*"Decentralized Wage Bargaining - A Threat to Incomes Policy Goals or an Instrument of Flexibility?", with Frode Longva. In Henry Milner and Eskil Wadensjö (eds.), "Gösta Rehn, the Swedish Model and Labour Market Policies", 2001
*"Arbeidsliv, lønn og forhandlinger", with Arvid Fennefoss. In Ivar Frønes & Lise Kjølsrød (eds.), "Det norske samfunn", 2003

References

* [http://www.iss.uio.no/instituttet/ansatte/geirlh.xml University of Oslo]
* [http://wo.uio.no/as/WebObjects/frida.woa/wa/fres?inst=185&pnr=37&action=sok List of publications in FRIDA]