Researcher focusing on the effects of welfare policies
Inés Hardoy has been at the Institute for Social Research since 1990. She has been a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of the State and Society (CEDES) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in several occasions. She has a BA in Sociology from the University of Sussex, England, and a PhD in Economics from the University in Oslo.
Her main interests has been the effects of family policy, educational policy and labor market policy on labor market prospects, with special focus on vulnerable groups such as young people, immigrants, women and people with reduced work capacity.
She has represented Norway in the European Network of Experts in the field of Gender Equality (ENEGE) and has contributed as an independent expert in the EU's Mutual Learning Programme for several years. She has been a member of several of Norway's public inquiries. She is currently involved in several projects that overlap the fields of the labor market, education, and mental health.