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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

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…

How to unionise freelancers and the solo selfemployed?

Faktaflak mai 2024 | 02 May 2024

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…

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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Articles and book chapters

Deep freezing the labour market through job retention schemes during the pandemic

Economic and Industrial Democracy
Improving myalgic encephalomyelitis population sampling

Journal of Health Psychology
Effects of speed-schools in Niger

Journal of Public Economics

New projects

Summaries in English

News in English

How do refugees affect the local labor market?

18 December 2024

Fafo to research the political force of Russians exiles

20 September 2024

Fafo takes part in EU project on social partnership for people in atypical employment relationships

Technologies in Under-Resourced Contexts – report launch and panel discussion

Nytt internasjonalt nettverk

Fafo var til stede under lanseringen av Work-net international, et internasjonalt og tverrfaglig forskningsnettverk på arbeidsliv, 21. januar.

Kristin Jesnes (midten) i paneldebatt.

Gruppebilde med deltagende forskere.

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Flere har behov for hjelp med tak over hodet

Fafofrokost med rapportlansering

Kan flere få AFP i privat sektor?

Metodeseminar: Hvordan forske på flyktningbarns erfaringer?

Seminar rettet mot fagfolk på feltet

Bedre vilkår på vei og til sjøs?

Fafo Østforum webinar

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

Fafo publication at random

Fafo-rapport 372

Yrke, opplæringsbehov og interesse for etter- og videreutdanning

Tre spørsmål står sentralt i denne rapporten: Hva kjennetegner arbeidstakere med henholdsvis høy og lav interesse for del…

Fafo's research areas

Dropout from education

Middle East and North Africa

Labour migration

Children of immigrants

Violence and Conflict

Digitalization of work

Labour market integration

Inclusion of immigrants

Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa

Global education and out-of-school children

Active ageing policy at the workplace

The Nordic model

The introduction programme for refugees in Norway

Care services

Peacebuilding and stabilisation

Lifelong learning

Poverty and social security

Vocational education and training - VET

Pensions

Global health

China

Forum for innovation in welfare services

School developement and learning

Exclusion and marginalisation

Industrial relations

New skills at the work place

Wage formation

Collective agreements

Integration and skills

Migration

Emerging economies

The multi-cultural society

Responsible business

Decent Work