About
Tønnessen is an economist with a Ph.D. in demography from the University of Oslo. Her research fields include immigration and emigration, demographic consequences of migration, as well as regional population development and domestic migration. She has also been a Fulbright student at Princeton University, head of the Norwegian population projections in the research department of Statistics Norway, and a researcher in demography at Stockholm University.
Fields of study
Academic disciplines
Demography Social sciences Economics
Subject areas
Population development Demography Population geography Demography Emigration Population Immigration Etniske relasjoner Work migration International migration Migration and family Demographic change Population projections Migration
Regions
Countries
Research groups
Research projects
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Emigration from today’s Norway: Who, why, and how does it shape Norwegian society? (EXITNORWAY)
Little is known about those who emigrate from Norway today, why they leave, and how their emigration affects Norwegian society.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Tønnessen, Marianne (2022). Arbeidsmigrasjon inn til og ut av Agder. Meyer, Frank (Ed.). Arbeid, arbeidere og arbeiderbevegelse på Agder 1500-2020. Kapittel 7. p. 185-208. Cappelen Damm Akademisk.
Syse, Astri; Tønnessen, Marianne
(2022).
Flere eldre innvandrere blant framtidens brukere av omsorgstjenester.
Tidsskrift for omsorgsforskning
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Vol. 8.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3024862
Adsera, Alicia; Andersen, Synøve Nygaard; Tønnessen, Marianne (2022). Does One Municipality Fit All? The Employment of Refugees in Norway Across Municipalities of Different Centrality and Size. European Journal of Population . Vol. 38.
Tønnessen, Marianne
(2021).
Movers from the city in the first year of Covid.
Nordic Journal of Urban Studies
.
https://www.idunn.no/njus/2021/02/movers_from_the_...
Andersen, Synøve Nygaard; Adsera, Alicia; Tønnessen, Marianne (2021). Municipality Characteristics and the Fertility of Refugees in Norway. Journal of International Migration and Integration .
Tønnessen, Marianne; Syse, Astri
(2021).
Flere eldre innvandrere i framtidens arbeidsstyrke.
Søkelys på arbeidslivet
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Vol. 38.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/2987479
Tønnessen, Marianne; Mussino, Eleonora; Aradhya, Siddartha
(2021).
How Assad changed population growth in Sweden and Norway: Syrian refugees’ impact on Nordic national and municipal demography.
PLOS ONE
.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?...
Tønnessen, Marianne; Wilson, Ben (2020). Visualising Immigrant Fertility Profiles of Childbearing and their Implications for Migration Research. Journal of International Migration and Integration .
Skjerpen, Terje; Tønnessen, Marianne
(2020).
Using future age profiles to improve immigration projections.
Population Studies
.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00324...
Tønnessen, Marianne; Mussino, Eleonora (2020). Fertility patterns of migrants from low-fertility countries in Norway. Demographic Research . Vol. 42.
