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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

Improving myalgic encephalomyelitis population sampling
Effects of speed-schools in Niger

Journal of Public Economics
Trajectories of Platform-mediated Gig Work in Nordic Taxi and Food Delivery Industries

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies

New projects

Parenting courses as part of the introduction programme – a follow-up study

Integrerings- og mangfoldsdirektoratet og Barne, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet
Health and safety for migrant workers in construction

Fellesforbundet
Between Rights and Restrictions

Beskyttelse av arbeidsinnvandreres rettigheter (BAR)

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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Metodeseminar: Hvordan forske på flyktningbarns erfaringer?

Seminar rettet mot fagfolk på feltet (se praktisk info)

Watch our last events – all languages

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

04 December 2024

Den norske arbeidslivsmodellen – status og utfordringer i en brytningstid

Fafo publication at random

Fafo-rapport 274

Globalisering: Utfordringer for norsk skatte- og fordelingspolitikk

Dette er en av publikasjonene fra rapportserien i prosjektet Det 21 århundrets velferdssamfunn. Det er en omfattende serie m…

Fafo's research areas

Children of immigrants

Inclusion of immigrants

Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa

Labour market integration

Wage formation

Responsible business

The Nordic model

Emerging economies

Exclusion and marginalisation

Care services

The introduction programme for refugees in Norway

New skills at the work place

Poverty and social security

Peacebuilding and stabilisation

Violence and Conflict

Pensions

Dropout from education

Middle East and North Africa

School developement and learning

Lifelong learning

Labour migration

Migration

Digitalization of work

China

Global health

Forum for innovation in welfare services

Decent Work

Active ageing policy at the workplace

Integration and skills

Global education and out-of-school children

The multi-cultural society

Industrial relations

Vocational education and training - VET

Collective agreements