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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

From bargaining to balance: How unions shape gender wage outcomes

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization
Deep freezing the labour market through job retention schemes during the pandemic

Economic and Industrial Democracy
At the Edges of the Welfare State

Nordic Journal of Migration Research

New projects

Quality Enhancement in the Follow-Up Service in Oslo

Oslo kommune, Utdanningsetaten
Results and impact of the efoorts of specialized services against negative social control and honour based violence

Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet
A long working life for everyone: Workplace measures in physically and psychosocially demanding jobs

FORTE-prosjekt, administrert av Karolinska institutet

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.

Programmet

Upcoming events

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Arendalsuka 2025

11. og 12. august

21 Aug.

Lansering: Ny bok om kommunale utleieboliger i Norge

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Har nye grep gitt mer tilpasset opplæring for flyktninger?

Fafofrokost med rapportlansering

Arbeidsinnvandrere på digitale plattformer

Fafo Østforum seminar

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

Fafo publication at random

Fafo-rapport 044

Natta til 1. mai

I syv år har det vært opptøyer i Oslo sentrum natt til 1. mai. Opptøyene har hatt en spennvidde fra en kortvarig konfrontasj…

Fafo's research areas

Pensions, retirement behaviour and senior policy

Living conditions and poverty

Violence and Conflict

Lifelong learning

New skills at the work place

School as arena for social development and learning

Emerging economies

Middle East and North Africa

Services and service development

The asylum process

Migration

Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa

Integration policy and measures

Responsible business

Dropout and attendance challenges in upper secondary education

Integration and skills

Children, young people and parents – in a minority perspective

Trust, discrimination and participation in a diverse society

Global education and out-of-school children

Labour migration

The Nordic model

Green and digital transition

Inclusive working life

Religion in a multi-religious society

Vocational education and training (VET)

Wage formation

Peacebuilding and stabilisation

The multi-cultural society

Workplace democracy

Global health

Active ageing policy at the workplace

Atypical forms of employment

Decent Work

Collective agreements

China

Exclusion and marginalisation

The introduction programme for refugees in Norway