Labour Market Projects

A project examining how compliance with the rules on the duty of diligence/supervision (påseplikt) and joint and several liability under the general application scheme for collective agreements, is implemented in practice.

Work–Family Trade-Offs in Context: Labor Market Conditions, Gender Differences in Parental Career Trajectories and Family Well-Being

ACCESS will investigate the relationship between socio-economic background and the recruitment and careers of academic professionals.

What does it take for Norwegian working life to function as an arena for the integration of immigrants? This project provides comprehensive knowledge about the pathways into and upward within working life for different groups of immigrants – and about the role the workplace itself plays, seen from the perspectives of employers, trade unions and immigrants themselves.

This project will use new data from staffing agencies, for the first time used in research, to investigate the economic consequences of temporary agency work.

The project will compile and disseminate new research on key dynamics related to time, replaceability, and rewards within employee careers in banking, as well as portfolio careers.

The project will result in a policy brief, showing the effect of women’s increased participation in the labour market as a factor in Norway’s GDP growth.

Choosing an education is one of the most important decisions young people make, and it is of great significance both for the individual and for society. This project aims to provide new and up‑to‑date knowledge about how young people in Norway choose education and careers, and which factors influence their choices.

The project examines how evolving skill requirements and technological change shape competencies and their value.

The project examines social and economic differences in birth rates, childlessness, and partnership formation.

The GENDERSKILLS project examines how the different educational choices made by men and women affect their career opportunities.

BATTLE will examine what kinds of signals about diversity and diversity work organizations send to their employees, and how different groups of employees respond to these signals.

The project will describe the developments in alternative work arrangements, with novel data sources and in light of recent policy changes, and examine consequences for employers and employees.

This project will investigate the significance of health for social inequality and mobility across generations.

The project will provide an overview of attitudes towards key gender equality issues among different parts of the Norwegian population, based on the CORE Survey 2022.

The world of work is undergoing major changes — from digitalization and the green transition to an ageing population. This project examines how workplaces and employers can facilitate good, long careers as an ever-larger share of the workforce reaches their 50s, 60s and 70s.

This project is initiated by CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality and financed by The Institute for Social Reseach.

A summary of research on class/social background in academic careers

Challenges and possibilities within the Nordic work-family model.

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.

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 – 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 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.

Public authorities and employers’ activity duty and the duty to issue a statement

This project examines the relationship between men’s and women’s work, and fertility. For most families, there is a conflict between time and income in the decision to have children.

Towards equal opportunities?

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality

The project is part of CORE – Centre for Research on Gender Equality.