Projects about Welfare and Education

UPSTREAM will contribute new knowledge on the effects of preventive social policies on child maltreatment and the mechanisms involved from a comprehensive Nordic welfare state.

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 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.

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

In the CoPro-project we will investigate the coproduction of welfare services between government- and voluntary actors within elderly care and drug care, in Norway and Germany. 

This project investigates the impact of tax deduction schemes on monetary donations to voluntary organisations, with a focus on social inequality and distribution effects. The goal is to document how tax deductions influence donation patterns and the organisations' revenues.

This project investigates the role of volunteering in rural areas with declining populations in Norway. The goal is to understand how volunteer organisations can mediate the interests of the population, meet service needs, and create social structures.

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

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.

In collaboration with the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association, the Institute for Social Research (ISF) is conducting a follow-up evaluation of the establishment of Kvinnehelsehus in four Norwegian cities. The project is funded by the Foundation Dam.

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

The research project addresses the costs aspects of caring for a child with a disability.

This is a partner project. See the UiO project page. 

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.

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 a commission for a public committee established by the King in Council on August 12, 2022, tasked with assessing how commercial operations can be phased out in various tax-financed welfare services.

Danish politicians are often harassed on social media such as Facebook and Twitter. In this project, we investigate what forms of abuse politicians are exposed to and whether efforts to stop the harassment are working.

Exploration of reasons for, and consequences of, women and children being withheld or left behind abroad.

Follow-up assistance and prevention.

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. 

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

The project investigates the factors that beyond individual and family resources generate inequalities in children and youth participation in organized leisure activities.

This project is part of the Centre for Research on Civil Society and Voluntary Sector.

How employers and employees manoeuvre under the new circumstances in The Norwegian pension reform.

Behavioral adaptations to the new pension system and their consequences in a lifetime perspective.

The umbrella project NORPOL is a collection of researcher-initiated sub-projects. The aim is to analyse whether Norwegian society is being polarized – and, if so, how.

A study of the service chain for unaccompanied minor refugees.

New Pension System: Legitimacy, Behavioural Effects and Sustainability.

EU migrant workers and the access to social security.

Literature review of national and international research.

Putting it to the Test of the Labour Market.