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Carlo Knotz, who defended his dissertation "Getting Tough on Unemployment" at the Department of Political Science in Lund in December 2016, has been awarded the 2017 Research Prize by the Swedish Federation of Unemployment Insurance Funds.
He shares the prize with Patrik Vulkan at the University of Gothenburg.
The prize sum of 75 000 SEK is shared equally between the prize winners.
The SO research prize is a bi-annual award distributed to stimulate research relevant for the unimployment insurance funds.
In 2015 Anders Kjellberg, professor at the Department of Sociology, Lund University, was awarded the prize for his research on changes in the unemployment insurance fund regulations and its impact on the level of union membership.
