Jørgen Svalund is a researcher at Fafo. He holds a PhD in sociology on mobility and labour market adjustments in the Nordic labour markets. Job security, job retention schemes, temporary employment, and labour market mobility have been central themes in his research.
Currently, he is working on a project about digitalization and polarization for the Norwegian Research Council, and he is the project leader for a larger project funded by the Norwegian Research Council that examines how the pandemic affected the labour market, the institutions regulating it, and individuals' attitudes towards income security, job retention, and other aspects of labour market governance in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Svalund also has extensive experience in studying power and democracy in the workplace, as well as various aspects of health, environment, and safety in work life. Among others, he has conducted research on workplace violence and threats of violence over an extended period.
Svalund has published a large number of reports, articles, and book chapters on various topics and has broad experience in collecting, using, and analysing both qualitative and quantitative data.
In this project, we aim to gather knowledge about young people within the target group for the Follow-Up Service as well as several adjacent groups in Oslo municipality. The purpose of the project is to provide the municipality with a comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge base about who these young people are, what kinds of challenges and needs they have, and how the municipality can design services and measures to reduce the risk of long-term social exclusion.
How can workplaces – encompassing employers, employees, and the organisational structures in which they are embedded – be reconfigured to facilitate the successful inclusion of vulnerable youth struggling to enter and retain a position in the labour market?
The project study labour market consequences of the COVID 19 epidemic. What are the impact and adjustments made to the labour market, its institutions, the regulations and measures used?
In cooperation with the University of Gothenburg, Michigan State University, and MIT, we will examine ongoing restructuring processes related to digitalization of work in Norway, Sweden and the U.S, the effects on labour market institutions and vice versa.
Education for Kindergarten Managers: A Career Perspective
2024 | Journal articles | Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
Path Reinforcer or Policy Accelerator? COVID-19 and Scandinavian Social Protection Reform Trajectories
2024 | Conference papers
Attitudes towards the unemployment benefit system in Norway after the Covid-19 pandemic The significance of insider position and job insecurity during the pandemic crisis
2024 | Seminars and presentations
Covid-19 pandemic in Scandinavia: a trigger for more comprehensive social protection for self-employed?
2024 | Journal articles | Den norske arbeidslivsmodellen: status og utfordringer i en brytningstid
En yrkessstruktur i endring
2024 | Journal articles | Den norske arbeidslivsmodellen: status og utfordringer i en brytningstid
Muligheter i krisetid
2023 | Journal articles | Ulikhetens drivere og dilemmaer
Midlertidige ansettelser og innleie som kilde til ulikhet
2023 | Conference papers
Income security for self-employed during the pandemic a role for crisis corporatism in developing and adjusting measures for the self-employed in Scandinavia?
2022 | Op-eds and commentaries | KAI-kronikk
Vi trenger nye trygdeordninger til unge KAI-kronikken
2022 | Journal articles | Economic and Industrial Democracy
Enforcing rules regulating the use of temporary positions in Norway: A matter of exit, voice or silence?
2021 | Journal articles | Work, Employment and Society
Temporary Contracts, Employment Trajectories and Dualisation A Comparison of Norway and Sweden
2019 | Journal articles
Liberalisering av reglene for midlertidige ansettelser: Hvorfor har virkningene uteblitt?
2018 | Journal articles
Hiring of Flexible and Fixed-term Workers in Five Norwegian and Swedish Industries
2017 | Journal articles
Midlertidig ansettelse i Norge – en vei inn i stabilt arbeid?
2017 | Conference papers
Temporary contracts, employment trajectories and dualisation: a comparison of Norway and Sweden
2017 | Seminars and presentations
Midlertidig ansettelse i Norge: En vei inn i stabilt arbeid?
2017 | Seminars and presentations
Midlertidig ansettelse i Norge – en vei inn i stabilt arbeid? Tja, det kommer an på
2017 | Scientific publishing | European Journal of Industrial Relations
Fixed-term employment in Norway and Sweden: A pathway to labour market marginalization?
2016 | Journal articles | European Journal of Industrial Relations
Attitudes towards job protection legislation: Comparing insiders and outsiders in Finland, Norway and Sweden
2016 | Conference papers
Regulation of fixed-term employment and the long-term risks of temporary employment in Norway and Sweden
2016 | Conference papers
Employers’ use of fixed-term contracts across industries in Norway and Sweden Does regulation matter?
2016 | Conference papers
Fixed-term employment in Norway and Sweden: pathway to labour market marginalisation?
2016 | Conference papers
Fixed-term employment in Norway: Long-term consequences for annual wages
2015 | Journal articles | Cooperation and Conflict the Nordic Way
Cooperation and Power in Labour Adjustment Choices: A Nordic Perspective
2015 | Journal articles | Nordic Jounral of Working Life Studies
Job Insecurity and Mental Well-Being in Finland, Norway, and Sweden
2015 | Conference papers
Why temporary employment contracts? A study of employers’ reasons for hiring on temporary contracts across five different sectors in Norway
2014 | Journal articles | Søkelys på arbeidslivet
Holdninger til arbeidslivsregulering: Hva betyr jobbtrygghet og arbeidsmarkedsposisjon?
2013 | Journal articles | Nordic journal of working life studies
Labour market institutions, mobility and dualization in the Nordic countries
2013 | Journal articles | European Journal of Industrial Relations
Stress testing the Nordic models: Manufacturing labour adjustments during crisis
2013 | Journal articles | Economic and Industrial Democracy
Adjusting labour through crisis: A three industry comparison
2013 | Journal articles | Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research
Trade union power during labour adjustments – comparison of company-level cases
2013 | Dissertations
The impact of institutions on mobility, labour adjustments and cooperation in the Nordic countries
2005 | Journal articles | Health Economics, Management and Policy.
Health Care Reform and Consequences for Patients with a Chronic Condition: Evidence from the Implementation of a List-patient System in Norwegian General Practice
2005 | Journal articles | Samfunnspeilet
Helse: Kvinner lever lengre - med flere sykdommer
2005 | Journal articles | Samfunnsspeilet
Velferdsstatens siste hull?
2005 | Journal articles | Samfunnsspeilet
Pleie og omsorgstjenester: Flere eldre mottar hjemmesykepleie
2005 | External reports
Pasienterfaringer i allmennlegetjenesten før og etter fastlegeordningen
2005 | External reports
Etter innføring av fastlegeordning - brukervurderinger av allmennlegetjenesten
2005 | External reports
Hjelpebehov og tjenestetilbud
2005 | External reports
Helse
2004 | Journal articles | Samfunnspeilet
Helse
2004 | Journal articles
Blanda resultater av fastlegereforma
2004 | Journal articles
Funksjonshemmede i Europa
2004 | Op-eds and commentaries
Mobbing, personalkonflikter og arbeidsmiljø
2003 | Books | Makt og deomokrati i arbeidslivet.
Makt og demokrati i arbeidslivet
2003 | Scientific publishing
Organisering, autonomi og arbeidstempo
2002 | Dissertations
Arbeid og autonomi
Covid-19 pandemic in Scandinavia: a trigger for more comprehensive social protection for self-employed?
| Op-eds and commentaries
Mobbing, personalkonflikter og arbeidsmiljø
| Seminars and presentations
Midlertidig ansettelse i Norge: En vei inn i stabilt arbeid?
| Seminars and presentations
Midlertidig ansettelse i Norge – en vei inn i stabilt arbeid? Tja, det kommer an på
Through this assignment, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs wishes to investigate how well secured employees' holiday pay is if the companies the individual is employed in are in an uncertain financial situation.
Formålet med prosjektet er å få mer kunnskap om styrerutdanningen for barnehageledere og i hvilken grad den bidrar til utvikling og endring av ledelsesespraksis i tråd med formålet med studiet. Ønsket er å mer kunnskap om hvordan lederutdanningen setter avtrykk i praksis.
The basic agreement i state sector - the basic agreement provides the rules and regulations on social dialogue in state enterprises. The project aim to evaluate the modus operandi of the agreement.
The project consists of a summary and review of research from Europa and Canada, where we study public measures improving the long-term connection to the labor market for immigrants.
The project will investigate how kindergarten directors and kindergarten teachers who have participated in further education in 2018 and 2019 assess the content and organization of the education, learning outcomes and changes in their own practice. In addition, the project will look at how the nursery owner has arranged for participation.
The aim of this comparative project is to study how temporary employment influences people’s employment careers and their chances of achieving a permanent establishment in the labour market.
