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Research on labor market, education, welfare and migration

How to move forward on implementing progressive refugee policies?

Our latest publication in English | Policy brief July 2024 | 05 July 2024
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Zimbabwean Children on the Move

Faforeport 2024:29 | 05 July 2024
Children traveling alone are often exposed to varying degrees of vulnerability on the road. In this report commissioned by UNICEF Zimbabwe, we explor…
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How to unionise freelancers and the solo selfemployed?

Faktaflak mai 2024 | 02 May 2024
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The politics of mandatory extensions of collective bargaining

Masterʼs Thesis | 29 February 2024
The proportion of workers covered by collective agreements has fallen in most OECD countries over the last decades. One of the main ways governments…
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Reflections on the YOUTHShare project

Fafopaper 2024:07 | 21 February 2024
With funding from the EEA and Norway grants, the YOUTHShare project (2018–2024) approached the problem of youth unemployment and inactivity in the Me…
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    Fafo var til stede under lanseringen av Work-net international, et internasjonalt og tverrfaglig forskningsnettverk på arbeidsliv, 21. januar.

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      05 March 2025

      Bedre vilkår på vei og til sjøs?

      Fafo Østforum webinar
      04 March 2025

      Ulikhetsbarometeret – den økende ulikheten under lupen

      Fafo-seminar med lansering
      05 February 2025

      Går Kina mot et hamskifte i slangens år?

      Lang Fafofrokost
      23 January 2025

      Hvordan virker de nye innleiereglene i bygg?

      Fafo Østforum seminar
      11 December 2024

      Jobbkvalitet og sykefravær som skyldes forhold ved arbeidet

      Fafofrokost i samarbeid med STAMI
      28 November 2024

      Arbeidsinnvandring – statistikk, kompetanse, konkurranse

      Fafo Østforum seminar
      12 December 2024

      Inclusive Education in Developing Countries: Building Pathways for Inclusive Futures

      Seminar hosted by Norad and Fafo
      04 December 2024

      Den norske arbeidslivsmodellen – status og utfordringer i en brytningstid

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        The social meanings of migration

        This thesis addresses the relationship between systems of social meaning and migration practices. Systems of social me…

        Fafo's research areas

        The introduction programme for refugees in Norway

        Middle East and North Africa

        Exclusion and marginalisation

        Violence and Conflict

        Emerging economies

        The Nordic model

        Collective agreements

        Inclusion of immigrants

        Vocational education and training - VET

        Global health

        Global education and out-of-school children

        Peacebuilding and stabilisation

        Forum for innovation in welfare services

        Wage formation

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        Digitalization of work

        Industrial relations

        Lifelong learning

        Active ageing policy at the workplace

        Dropout from education

        Labour migration

        China

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        New skills at the work place

        The multi-cultural society

        School developement and learning

        Decent Work

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        Labour market integration

        Children of immigrants

        Poverty and social security

        Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa

        Integration and skills