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Research on labor market, education, welfare and migration

Fafo publications in English
Legal framework: obstacles, facilitators and new strategies

Integrate Dialogue | 16 January 2026

Fafo publications in English
Experiences with regulations limiting the use of subcontractors in public procurements

Fafo note 2025:12 | 26 September 2025

Fafo publications in English
Onward Migration and Non-Mobility Among Ukrainian Refugees in Europe

Policy brief June 2025 | 24 June 2025

All Fafo publications

Go to our publication segment on Fafo.no for all publications – both in Norwegian and English. All are freely available for downloading and reading.

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Scientific publications

Vocational Teachers' Work at the Boundary of School and Work

Journal articles | International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training
The IMF, Structural Adjustment, and Poverty

Journal articles | The Journal of Development Studies
Rettferdig omstilling

Book chapters | Samfunnsgeografi: Perspektiver og prosesser | Cappelen Damm Forskning

New projects

The Norwegian data center industry

Abelia, Norsk Industri, NITO, Tekna, NHO Elektro, Norsk Arbeidsmandsforbund & EL og IT
The quality of apprentice training in Norway

LO
Collective agreed sickpay

Arbeids- og inkluderingsdepartementet

Summaries in English

News in English

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

14 June 2024

Photo glimpseKristin Dalen at "Vidsyn 2026"

How will China develop – and how should Norway relate to China going forward? Kristin Dalen participated at the YS conference “Vidsyn” on 13 January.

Photo glimpseFinale for European competance project

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On 13 and 14 November, all stakeholders in the EU project Skills2Capabilities gathered in Maastricht. How can Europe become better at developing the skills that society and working life need – and at matching people and jobs? From Fafo, Torgeir Nyen, Johan Røed Steen and Markus Roos Breines participated.

Fafo's Torgeir Nyen and Pujun Chen (Technische Universität Dortmund) in front of a poster summarizing parts of the research contribution.