Vibeke Jakobsen

Areas of work

Vibeke Jakobsen mainly works with analysis of education and employment conditions for immigrants and their descendants, analysis of poverty among elderly immigrants, evaluation of social housing interventions and analysis of vulnerable neighbourhoods. Her analyses are based on quantitative data and methods.

Methods

Vibeke Jakobsen carries out quantitative empirical analyses based on registry and survey data, for instance registry data from Statistics Denmark, The Ministry of Employment and STIL. In addition to carrying out analyses based on survey data, she also develops questions for use in questionnaires, which are used in data collection. These questions can be either for progression measurements or larger surveys, which are linked to registry data and used for analysis and research assignments.

Background

Vibeke Jakobsen started working for SFI, now VIVE, in late 1999. She has a PhD from 2004. Her PhD dissertation focused on educational, employment and wage conditions for young immigrants from the former Yugoslavia, Turkey and Pakistan. Since then, Vibeke Jakobsen has carried out several projects on educational and employment conditions for immigrants and descendants in Denmark, in the former SFI and now VIVE. She has also worked with analysis of couple formation among immigrants and descendants and the effects of the changes in the rules regarding family reunification, and poverty among elderly immigrants. In addition to research in integration, Vibeke Jakobsen has also had projects in the housing area in recent years, including evaluation of social housing interventions and analysis of vulnerable neighbourhoods. Finally, she has been part of projects on the job market, e.g. projects on companies’ social involvement and young people's transition from school to employment.

Selected publications

Scientific article
14. SEP 2017

Labour Market

Jakobsen, V., & Pedersen, P. J. (2017). Poverty risk among older immigrants in a Scandinavian welfare state. European Journal of Social Security, 19(3), 242-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/1388262717725937

Scientific article
JUL 2015

Labour Market
Daycare, school and education

Jakobsen, V., Bäckman, O., Lorentzen, T., Österbacka, E., & Dahl, E. (2015). Early School Leaving in Scandinavia: Extent and labor market effects. Journal of european social policy, 25(3), 253-269. https://doi.org/10.1177/0958928715588702

Report
10. APR 2015

Labour Market
The Social Sector
Daycare, school and education

Jakobsen, V. (2015). Uddannelses- og beskæftigelsesmønstre i årene efter grundskolen: En sammenligning af indvandrere og efterkommere fra ikke-vestlige lande og etniske danskere. SFI - Det Nationale Forskningscenter for Velfærd. SFI-Rapport No. 15:17

Scientific article
21. FEB 2023

Labour Market
The Social Sector
Daycare, school and education

Jakobsen, V. (2023). Non-Western Immigrants, the Transition from School to Education and to Work and NEET Status. Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 13(1). Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.33134/njmr.487

Report
10. FEB 2023

Labour Market

Jakobsen, V., Thuesen, F., Højbjerre, A., Kildahl Scerdocz Nielsen, S., & Lang Thomsen, R. (2023). Labour market attachment in the Nordic countries: Toward a more inclusive labour market in the Nordics 1. Nordic Council of Ministers. TemaNord https://doi.org/10.6027/temanord2023-501

Scientific article
2022

The Elderly
Labour Market
The Social Sector

Gustafsson, B., Mac Innes, H., Jakobsen, V., Pedersen, P. J., & Österberg, T. (2022). Older Immigrants – new poverty risk in Scandinavian welfare states? Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 48(19), 4648-4669. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2021.2011176

Working paper
28. SEP 2020

The Social Sector

Thuesen, F., Jakobsen, V., Dalgaard, N. T., & Nielsen, B. C. V. (2020, Sept 28). PROTOCOL: Interventions to improve the economic self‐sufficiency of unemployed immigrants from non‐Western countries. (4 ed.) Campbell Protocol https://doi.org/10.1002/cl2.1115