Nettsider med emneord «Working Life»

When Robots meet the Nordic model: job creation, destruction or retraining?

This project will examine the developments and explanations of the gender wage gap in the Norwegian labor market. We will look at women and men who perform the same work and assess possible indicators for measuring wage inequalities between women and men performing work of equal value.

The goal of this project is to study how technological change in the workplace contributes to political transformations, the adoption of policies to address change, and the political consequences of such policies.

This project aims to understand the effects of transitions in the educational system on later labour market participation, family formation and health.

In the wake of New Public Management reforms, the role of trust in the public institutions of the Nordic welfare state has been politicized and entered the public debate in a previously unprecedented form.

GREENFIELD investigates the impact of the green transition on skills requirements and labour market outcomes at the firm and individual level, as well as measures that can help realize or speed up the green transition.

CORE Survey 2022 – The Equality Survey is a survey examining the population’s views on various issues related to gender equality.

The project's main objective is to analyze the impact of EEA law on the welfare state. It is the first analysis of its kind. The research group includes Europe's leading experts on free movement and European welfare law.

This project is commissioned by NAV and has two sub-projects. The first analyzes people on sick leave and people exiting the labor market, while sub-project two analyzes inclusion and sickness absence.

How can private companies and voluntary organizations work together? This project examines how the cooperation between the business world and volunteering in Norway.

In this project, we analyze the wage trajectories for researchers and other highly educated workers in the Norwegian labor market.

A knowledge mapping of the activity and reporting duty in the Equality and Anti-discrimination Act.

Workers will often be in the best position to disclose illegalities and malpractice at the workplaces. Whistleblowing and employers’ ability to react and handle is important to avoid wrongdoing that can damage employees, businesses, patients and customers – or eventually – the society as a whole. It is also a basis in well-functioning industries and labour markets. This project will put the employers in the center of our analysis.

The project addresses the role of regional business costs, public employment, the localization of technology and skills, and the impact of global competition for job creation at the regional level.

The project summarizes existing knowledge about gender balance in boards and management in Norwegian business life. It also contributes with an assessment of how the measures to promote such gender balance have worked.

The growing impacts from climate change and environmental problems raise a variety of different questions for social research. This research initiative sheds light on social science research questions within climate change and environmental policy and aims to put forward new insights on this profound challenge of our times.

The initiative is coordinated as an umbrella project with experience-sharing across subprojects.

In this project, we will investigate the consequences of the pandemic for children’s and young people’s conditions in which to grow up, for equality in families and for individuals, including children and adults with disabilities, as well as experiences on the internet.