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What is the real cost of full-time working?
The financial costs and benefits of developing a culture of full-time working in municipal health and care services The f...
Norwegian Junior Professional Officers in the UN
The challenge of retaining JPOs and increasing the number of Norwegians in the UN system This report identifies...
Organisation of daily life in kindergartens – some ideal types.
This interim report provides an overview of the different ways of organising daily life in kindergartens We identify typol...
Use of temporary workers in hospitals and primary care services
A large part of the health and care services are carried out by temporary workers and employees with short working hours. ...
Evaluation of pilot testing of full-time working in two institutions under the Nursing Home Agency in Oslo
Over the last years, Oslo City Council has made numerous decisions with a view to increasing the proportion of full-time w...
Social control and integration
The significance of parental involvement and parental restrictions in adolescence for integration outcomes in the transiti...
Worrying school absence levels: A Scandinavian literature review
The Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training, which commissioned this report, wants to strengthen the knowledge ba...
The TiSA agreement
Content and consequences for the labour market and the welfare state in Norway TiSA (Trade in Services Agreement) is an a...
From social assistance to self-reliance
Better living conditions for disadvantaged families with children in receipt of social assistance Figures from Statistics...
Digitalisation, privacy protection and union rep participation
This report discusses issues related to digitalisation and employees’ privacy protection. It also looks at the extent of u...
Women's representation in trade unions
A survey of members of the United Federation of Trade Unions (Fellesforbundet) and the Norwegian Union of Commerce and Off...
Career guidance for recently arrived refugees and immigrants
Since 2021, recently arrived refugees in Norway have, as a general rule, had the right and duty to participate in career g...
The quality of asylum interviews
In order for someone to be recognised as a refugee in Norway, they must apply for protection upon arrival. In the ensuing ...
Employers’ attitudes to ethnic diversity
Increased mobility across national borders has resulted in a more diverse workforce, and more attention is therefore being...
EEA and Norway grants 2004–2021. What has Norway achieved?
The report is a knowledge review of Norwegian support through EEA and Norway grants since 2004. The scheme is anchored in ...
Information for the immigrant population in times of crisis Interim report 1
The COVID-19 pandemic hit some parts of the immigrant population in Norway harder than the rest of the population, and the...
New division of labour in the health and care sector
A survey of nursing associates, medical secretaries and hospital porters This report was funded and commissioned by the t...
In no man’s land. Protection of society and secure mental health services from a municipal perspective
This report presents the results from the project ‘Challenges with the protection of society and secure mental health serv...
Sector-specific policies for older employees
This report summarises, specifies and evaluates the challenges and possibilities of retaining more older employees for lon...
Three-shift rotas – evaluation of the provision on reduced working hours
Issues In 2009, the Storting adopted a new provision on working hours for employees on three-shift rotas, section 10-4 su...
Human trafficking in Norway. Privacy considerations and data access for prevalence estimates
This report presents the findings from a project on estimating the prevalence of presumed victims of human trafficking in ...
Specialty training in general practice. New roles and more responsibility for local authorities
A new scheme for specialty training in general practice was introduced on 1 March 2019. Before a doctor can apply to becom...
Competence and user assessments of Jeg Vet and Snakkemedbarn.no
In 2015, Bufdir initiated efforts to develop two digital learning resources (Snakkemedbarn.no and Jeg Vet) to help prevent...
Local wage bargaining in the manufacturing industry
Prior to the 2022 wage bargaining round, the Federation of Norwegian Industries (Norsk Industri) and the United Federation...
Summary: Assessing future migration among Ukrainian refugees in Poland and Norway
This report presents the main findings from a study of migration aspirations and migration decision-making among Ukrainian...
The Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees’ Youth Barometer 2021
This report is based on a nationwide survey among young people born between 1996 and 2005, and includes young working peop...
Labour immigration from third countries
The topic of this report, which has been commissioned by the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration, is immigration of skill...
Regulated education programmes for child welfare officers, social workers and social educators
This report summarises and discusses the findings made by current research and official reports when it comes to the chall...
On hearing children in expulsion cases
This report focuses on the right of children to be heard in expulsion cases. Expulsion is one of the government’s tools fo...
Gross exploitation of migrant workers
The grey zone between the regular labour market and human trafficking The objective of this report is to provide more kno...
Working time arrangements in the organisational area of the Norwegian Union of Social Educators and Social Workers
In this report, we examine various factors related to working hours in the organisational area of the Norwegian Union of S...
The implementation of Jeg Vet and Snakkemedbarn.no
In 2015 Bufdir began a process of developing two digital learning resources with the aim to prevent and uncover violence a...
Welfare schemes for self-employed workers. Challenges and adaptations
The welfare schemes for self-employed workers and freelancers differ in some respects from those of employees. This means ...
Setting the course. Measures to achieve consistent quality in the introduction programme
Standardised elements in the Introduction Programme for Refugees Sub-report 1 In early 2021, several standardise...
Tracking disability inclusion in multilateral organizations
This report investigates the developments in efforts to monitor the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the programs...
Older teachers
This report is about older teachers in primary and secondary schools. The report summarises a selection of recent research...
Evaluation of the tripartite industry programme for competence development
The tripartite industry programme for competence development is an element in the Lære hele livet [Lifelong learning] educ...
Permanently low-paid workers – scope and characteristics
This report examines the scope and characteristics of permanently low-paid workers in Norway. We find that of those 23 per...
An evaluation of the immigration administration’s work with children and competence in this area
In 2017, key players in the immigration administration – the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration (UDI), the Immigration A...
The ABE reform in the performing arts: Cuts without artistic consequences?
Each year, central, regional and local government authorities channel funding into the culture sector, including for purpo...
Welfare services for young adults
Work assessment allowance and The qualification program for young adults outside work and education Qualification program...
Dialogue and discord
Efforts to combat family practices involving coercion and violence to prevent individual family members from deciding whom...
Someone to belong to
Mentoring schemes for young people who have broken ties with their families. In 2017, the Solberg government charged the ...
Aiming for sustainability
Knowledge, efforts and attitudes in three Unio-affiliated trade unions This report attempts to ‘feel the pulse’ of t...
Heading for a normal life, as you define it yourself
Evaluation on the street-level interventions of Blue Cross and the ‘Step by Step’ programme This is the final report from...
Skilled workers’ contribution to innovation in Norwegian industry
The goal of this report is to obtain more knowledge on the ways in which skilled workers contribute to innovation. The pro...
Disbursement of holiday pay
How is holiday pay set aside and when it is paid out? Interviews with accountants and a business survey have clearly show...
Job advertisements, recruitment and the culture of full-time working in municipal health and care services
This R&D report is the first deliverable in a project describing local authorities’ job advertising practices within t...
Torture victims in the Norwegian asylum process
A review of Norway’s obligations, with recommendations for practice Despite the total ban on torture, it remains widespre...
Older workers in the nursing and care sector
This report deals with older personnel who work as registered nurses, nursing associates and healthcare assistants in care...
Evaluation of the programme Barnehjernevernet
The programme Barnehjernevernet (BHV) was established as a pilot project in Oslo in 2016–2017 and continued as a programme...
A service area in development
Evaluation of the escalation plan for the field of drugs and addiction This report contains the results from the evaluati...
Continuing education and labour market mobility
Data from the Learning Conditions Monitor viewed in conjunction with register data from Statistics Norway The report cont...
Labour trafficking in Norway. Updated report
There is considerable knowledge about, and interventions that target, human trafficking and exploitation for prostitution....
Irregular assistance. A study of Norwegian cities’ encounter with irregular migrants
In this study, we have investigated those who are living in Norway as irregular migrants, i.e. without legal residen...
Analysis of Leisure activities in Gamle Oslo District
Our assignment Gamle Oslo District sought more insight into how the district’s organised leisure activities are adapted t...
Working and living conditions among resident immigrants from Poland og Lithuania
According to figures from Statistics Norway, almost 200 000 immigrants, family members, and children from EU member states...
The approval scheme for foreign craft and journeyman’s certificates. Effects on labour conditions
The approval scheme for foreign craft and vocational training was established following an initiative taken by the social ...
Workers’ Co-determination and Participation
How are participation and co-determination practised in Norwegian workplaces, and how do different actors assess the benef...
Handling and consequences of the corona outbreak for upper secondary education
Chapter 1 This report describes how the actors in upper secondary education handled the coronavirus outbreak in the...
Immigrant workers from third countries — knowledge summary
It is expected that in the years ahead, Norway will have a greater need to recruit labour from countries outside the EU/EE...
Collective organisation of employers and collective agreements
This report discusses employers and attitudes towards collective institutions. Questions include motivations to join or no...
Franchises and corporate groups, Scope and characteristics in the private services industry
In this report we have identified the characteristics of franchise agreements and corporate groups as business models and ...
Full-time and part-time work in hospitals On the use of split positions in Østfold Hospital
About the assignment and its methodology This is a study of measures that have been enacted at Østfold Hospital to increa...
Attitudes to unionisation. A survey among employees
About the survey In this report we explore the reasons why employees choose to join a trade union and their attitudes to ...
Retirement in the municipal sector
Early retirement and use of the AFP scheme in the tariff area of the Norwegian Association of Local and Regional Authoriti...
From Zero to Hero. On flexible learning arenas, dropout and the journey back
The topic of this report is school dropout and methods for getting vulnerable young people back into education or into pai...
Competence development for persons on sick leave
This Fafo report was commissioned by the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) and is part of a pilot project ...
The restaurant industry – developments since 2014
In 2014, a report on the working conditions in the restaurants and bars was published. It gave a description of the indust...
What employers talk about when they talk about language
Language skills are important to find a job in Norway, and employers regard ‘poor command of the language’ as a key and le...
Relevance in vocational education and training
A key objective of the vocational training system is to ensure that those who complete the training for a craft or journey...
Trends in labour and welfare policy towards 2035
The general goals for Norwegian labour and welfare policy are ‘an adaptable business sector with high employment, economic...
Evaluation of the escalation plan for the field of drugs and addiction. Fourth status report
This is the fourth status report from the evaluation of the escalation plan for the field of drugs and addiction (2016–202...
Continuity and change. Family practices and women's labor market participation among immigrants in Norway
In Norway, immigrants meet a society with a particular blend of working life, family life and welfare state. They also fac...
Unionisation and unionisation rates in Samfunnsbedriftene
In this report we investigate unionisation and social partnership in the member enterprises of Samfunnsbedriftene employer...
Competence in an inclusive pre-school and school environment
This is the final report in a three-year project by Fafo to evaluate the three programmes included in the Norwegian Direct...
Participation in state sector – the role of the Basic Agreement
The Basic Agreement, which has been signed by the government represented by the Ministry of Local Government and Modernisa...
Continuing education for pre-school teachers and management training for kindergarten directors 2020
This report presents the results from a survey among pre-school teachers who have participated in continuing education, an...
Mind the gap - summary
This is the final report from a process evaluation of the Nordic 0–24 project. The project has involved a collaboration be...
Complete people -fragmented services
There is an increasing worry related to exclusion of young people growing up in so-called deprived city areas. In this rep...
Employees’ experiences of participation and co-determination at NTNU
The main topic of this report is employees’ opportunities for participation at the Norwegian University of Science and Tec...
To be an issue – LGBT+: working environment and attitudes in the Church of Norway
In light of reports of concern, the National Council of the Church of Norway has taken the initiative to commission a stud...
Senior workers in the daycare sector
About the project The primary aim of this project was to generate new knowledge about why senior workers leave their dayc...
Time for activation. Evaluation of NAV’s intensified youth initiative
There is continued concern for young adults who are outside the labour market. Various statistics, such as the figures on ...
Sourcing strategies for ICT in the public sector
This report examines sourcing strategies for ICT and the use of cloud services in the public sector in Norway. The study i...
Evaluation of the pilot flexitime agreement in the state sector
This report evaluates the changes to the special flexitime agreement in the state sector that came into force on 1 January...
We have kept the wheels in motion
The municipalities’ integration work with refugees during the outbreak of the coronavirus This report establishes an init...
Cleaners' wages before and after the general application of the national wage agreement
In the period prior to the general application of the national wage agreement for the cleaning industry, it was found that...
Success and inconvenience
This is the final report from the project on evaluation of the absence limit, undertaken by Fafo in collaboration with Sta...
On equal terms?
The theme of the report is the 10th year mathematics examination in the period 2017–2019. This is the last of three report...
Norwegian language proficiency of employees born outside Norway- 2nd edition
The importance of labour immigrants being able to communicate in Norwegian has increased in the last 20 years due to labou...
Nutrition efforts in Norwegian development cooperation
The world is facing major challenges in terms of nutrition, with millions of people who are starving or malnourished. In r...
Social partnership and digital transformation
In this report we investigate the challenges that social partnership comes up against in digitisation processes. We are co...
An inclusive pre-school and school environment
Summary This report provides a first overview of the data that describe how the participants assess the three programmes ...
Work intensity and pressure among radiographers
The purpose of this report is to examine work intensity and pressure among radiographers and whether these are perceived t...
Skills mapping and career guidance for recently arrived refugees
Municipalities, IMDi and other agencies that need to help refugees integrate into the Norwegian labour market are calling ...
Trouble in the interfaces. Coordinated effort directed at vulnerable children and young people
A comprehensive welfare state helps ensuring that most children in Norway enjoy sound living conditions during childhood. ...
Compliance with the regulation of temporary contracts and agency work
This is the main report emanating from a project examining compliance with the provisions for the use of temporary contrac...
From figurehead to overworked handyman?
Recruitment to school leader positions in Norwegian schools A good school relies on good school leaders. Therefore, recru...
At the right level Mentoring as a path to employment
At the right level Mentoring as a path to employmentA study of IMDi’s mentoring and trainee schemes This report evaluates...
ACPD as an efficiency tool. The ABE reform in Norway
In 2014, Erna Solberg’s government proposed introducing a ‘debureaucratisation and efficiency reform’ (the ABE reform), an...
LO’s student membership
The topic of this report is the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions’ (LO’s) student membership. Student membership in ...
Human trafficking for labour
There is considerable knowledge about, and interventions that target, human trafficking and exploitation for prostitution....
Evaluation of the escalation plan for the field of drugs and addiction. Third status report
The escalation plan for the field of drugs and addiction (2016-2020) was submitted to the Storting in November 2015 (Prop....
Just getting by
Summary Taking as its starting point the evidence that non-citizen Palestinian refugees originating from Gaza — known as ...
Continuing education for kindergarten teachers and management training for kindergarten heads 2019
This report is the result of the third survey on continuing education for kindergarten teachers and management training fo...
Violence, threats and harassment in the health and social care sector
The Norwegian Work Environment Act clearly states that all employees are entitled to a safe working environment. Never the...
Economic incentives and the integration of immigrants
The task that we have attempted to solve in this report is: How can we design pilot projects for use of economic incentive...
Arts and culture – changing organisations?
The art and culture sector is often described as a rapidly growing part of the international labour markets, and it is als...
Temporary hiring in the construction industry in Trondheim
Results from a mapping study conducted in the autumn of 2018. This report describes the use of employees from temporary w...
Assisted return. A review of existing research
In this report I review existing research on assisted return. Assisted return (previously called ‘voluntary return’) is an...
Adult learning organisations as training catalysts
In 2018, training courses qualifying for government support and held under the auspices of approved adult learning organis...
Raising the age limit for employment protection. How have businesses and employees adapted?
Many European countries have a clear goal of increasing the age at which employees retire from work. A number of countries...
Norwegians' attitudes towards gender equality, hate speech and the instruments of gender equality policy. 2nd edition
This report presents the results of a study of Norwegians' attitudes towards gender equality, hate speech and the instrume...
Nordic 0 – 24 collaboration on improved services to vulnerable children and young people. Second interim report
The Nordic 0–24 project was initiated by the Nordic Council of Ministers in 2017. The main agenda is to prevent the social...
Staffing strategies in small and medium-sized manufacturing enterprises in Hordaland county
Research question and project implementation In terms of petroleum-related employment, Hordaland county is Norway’s secon...
Monitoring and surveillance in the workplace
This report is based on, and expands on, a previous survey that Fafo conducted among Norwegian employees in 2010 on attitu...
Active ageing policy in the retail trade
This project is a collaboration between Handel og Kontor Norge, Virke, Fafo, Fellestiltakene LO-Virke and the Centre for S...
The gender-segregated labour market at the workplace level
The Norwegian labour market is clearly segregated by gender. Although women and men have approximately identical rates of ...
A new way to full-time culture
Full-time employment as a norm in the Norwegian municipal sector has been a goal for the central government, workers’ and ...
Maritime competence in a digital future
The topic of this report is maritime competence in a digital future. Its takes its basis in the definition formulated by D...
When welfare is for sale. Non-profit and commercial suppliers of welfare services
Norway has a large public sector with a broad range of welfare services for its inhabitants. In addition, for-profit and n...
Whistleblowing in Norwegian working life 2018
The Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority is currently engaged in efforts to strengthen knowledge about whistleblowing in ...
Three experiments with working time schemes in three government agencies
This report documents and evaluates three experiments with working time schemes in three government agencies. In five p...
Wage, working and pension conditions in the public and private child welfare services
On behalf of the Ministry of Children and Equality (BLD), Fafo has collaborated with Economics Norway and Bull & Co La...
From lofty ideals to reality. The use of the competence provisions in the collective agreements in the private sector
A Fafo project in 2017 investigated the role of the collective agreements as an in-strument for competence policies in the...
The Norwegian Food and Allied Workers Union – seen from the local and regional representatives
Local and regional trade union representatives in The Norwegian Food and Allied Workers Union (NNN) have been aske...
An evaluation of Blue Cross Norway’s street-level initiatives and the rehabilitation initiative Step by Step
This is the first report from an ongoing evaluation of two of Blue Cross Norway’s in-itiatives: the street-level initiativ...
A long way towards full-time employment
Full-time employment as the normal in the municipal sector has been a goal for the government, workers and employers organ...
Consequences of “part-time culture” in four municipalities in Southern Norway
In this report, consequences of “part-time culture” in different sectors such as health and care, kindergarten, technical ...
Employment among young people with disabilities
It is a stated goal to increase employment among (young) people with disabilities, and the interim objective 2b of the agr...
Violations of the regulations pertaining to fixed-term employment and temporary agency work. Sub-report
4 Fixed-term employment in the Labour Force SurveyIn this chapter we investigate the characteristics of fixed-term employm...
Knowledge of the pension system
Studies have shown that knowledge of the pension system is generally low, though higher in older and high-income groups, i...
Evaluation of The escalation plan for the field of drugs and addiction Second status report
The escalation plan for the field of drugs and addiction (2016-2020) was submitted to the Storting in November 2015 (Prop....
In the absence limit’s blind spot
In this report we have analysed the absence limit in light of the students’ experiences. It is the second publication in a...
Migration, parenting and social control
The topic of this report is parenting and social control, with a particular focus on immigrant families from Pakistan, Som...
Local bargaining under new conditions
In the collective bargaining process in 2016, the central government's main tariff agreement was divided into two. Mechani...
Evaluation of pilot projects with alternative training models
In this final, concluding report, Fafo and NIFU present an evaluation of pilot projects where alternative training models ...
Recruitment and organising efforts in the service sector
This report investigates the recruitment and organising efforts of the Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO) and it...
The role of the assistants in kindergartens
In this report, we elucidate the role of assistant in kindergartens. The questions posed concern how the kindergarten sect...
Recruit and maintain – the role of the local membership benefit committees in LO
Membership benefits are well known as a tool for trade unions to recruit members and to keep them organised. The Norwegian...
How to create late career development
The Centre for Senior Policy (SSP) is a resource centre dedicated to the stimulation and development of policies concernin...
Sexual harassment in the Scandinavian hotel industry. Experiences from three hotels in Denmark, Norway and Sweden
The main questions in this report address how workplace sexual harassment in the Scandinavian hotel industry is understood...
Continuing education for kindergarten teachers and management training for kindergarten heads 2017/2018
This report examines the experiences of kindergarten teachers and heads who have participated in continuing education and ...
Older workers in manufacturing industries
This report describes skilled and unskilled workers in manufacturing industries and gives an account of the number and pro...
A chance to qualify – experiences with the introductory programme for refugees
This report presents the results from a qualitative user survey among participants in the introductory programme for refug...
Continuing education and training in collective agreements in the public sector
This report provides an overview of the arrangements for continuing education and training that exist in working life in t...
When the job is put out to tender. Outsourcing of cleaning services in the Armed Forces
In this study we have attempted to elucidate three issues. First, we have investigated the intentions behind the decision ...
Senior competence in he Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority
Active ageing is about recognising and valuing senior resources in working life. A step towards this goal is to promote an...
Forms of employment relationships/employment contracts in Norway
In this report, we analyse the status and development of different types of employment relationships in the Norwegian labo...
Sexual harassment in the field of film, TV, theatre, music and gaming
In the wake of the #metoo campaign in the autumn of 2017 we have undertaken a survey to identify the prevalence and experi...
Aging with HIV
Background When the anti-retroviral drugs (ARV) became widely available in the mid 90's, HIV changed from being a fatal i...
Digital divides. Evaluation of the examination in mathematics for 10th grade, spring 2018
This report addresses the examination in mathematics for tenth grade in the spring of 2018. This report is the second in a...
Safety delegates in the construction industry
This report focuses on the safety delegates in the construction industry. In particular, we are concerned with the functio...
To the test. Evaluation of the tenth grade mathematics examination in the spring of 2017
This report describes the tenth grade mathematics examination given in the spring of 2017. The report is the first in a se...
Services provided by the NLWA in prisons
This report presents the results of a process evaluation of how the rights of prison inmates to services provided by the N...
Labour migrants and substance abuse
A pilot study of alcohol abuse among Polish labour migrants in Norway This report summarises existing knowledge about alc...
When the boss is an app
The topic of this report is digital platforms and platform work. In this context, ‘platforms’ refers to digital market pla...
Professional recruitment is equality in recruitment
The topic of this report is recruitment practice in enterprises that are included in the public service diversity network....
Hidden in the numbers: Barriers to girls’ education in West Africa
The main barriers to girls’ education are also barriers to many boys’ education. Barriers to the remaining group of out-o...
Employer's attitude towards parental leave?
Employer's attitude towards parental leave? The Norwegian system of parental leave is an important pillar in the social mo...
The use of local special collective agreement agreements
This report examines the use of local special collective agreement agreements in a sample of Norwegian municipalities and ...
A safe place to wait. Care practices in reception centres for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers
In this report we investigate the provision of care to unaccompanied minor asylum seekers aged 15–18 who live in asylum re...
Follow up of apprentices in Akershus
The follow-up provided to apprentices in Akershus has been the main topic of this project. Its objective has been to chart...
Entrepreneurship training for immigrants who wish to establish their own businesses
Fafo has been commissioned by the Ministry of Justice and Public Security to evaluate the grant scheme for entrepreneurshi...
Efforts to ensure girls’ rights and gender equality in Norwegian development policies
This study is inspired by the increasing attention devoted to the rights of girls in the global development agenda. Sustai...
From participation to empowerment
In 2015, the Solberg government introduced a strategy to combat child poverty, in which 64 different measures are describe...
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