22 projects

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VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Young adults’ mental health and labor market exclusion - causes, consequences, and trends

The working-age population in Norway is shrinking due to demographic processes. Next to productivity increases and immigration, integrating and retaining young adults in the labor market is considered crucial for sustaining a comprehensive welfare state. However, increasing rates of mental health...

Awarded: NOK 11.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

Behavioral adjustments, income volatility and attention to the tax and benefits schedule

Tax- and benefit systems are distortive: The create incentives to work less. Understanding how people respond to such incentives is crucial to understanding efficiency- and equity effects of tax- and benefit systems. From simple economic theory we expect that individuals will bunch at thresholds ...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Men without Education and Work: A Crisis Unfolding

A salient feature of the labor markets of developed economies is that low-educated prime-age men are much less likely to be employed than high-skilled prime-age men. The gap emerged several decades ago and has been growing ever since. The goal of our project is to understand why low-educated men ...

Awarded: NOK 6.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Oslo

INNOFFARENA-Innovasjonsarena for stat og kommune

Inntektssikring: Hva kan vi lære av andre lands borgerlønnseksperimenter?

Konferansen vil gå over en dag og involvere forskere, brukere (i form av representanter for ulike organisasjoner) og politikere. Programmet tar utgangspunkt i dagens og framtidens utfordringer for det offentlige inntektssikringssystemet: 1) En over tid høy og dels økende andel mottakere av helser...

Awarded: NOK 79,999

Project Period: 2024-2024

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Health Deterioration and Risks of Labour Market Exits - Young Workers in Double Trouble?

Recent data from EU member states show that one quarter of the working age population has a chronic disease. In Norway, Norwegian Bureau of Statistics estimates that the employment rate of people with disabilities in working age is approximately 41%. The connection between chronic disease, work ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

REKRUTTERING-REKRUTTERING

Yrkesaktivitet i eldre år. Kva skal til for at fleire 60-åringar kan, og vil, halda fram å arbeida til dei når den øvre aldersgrensa?

Ingen endringer

Awarded: NOK 2.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Centre on the Europeanization of Norwegian Law - Understanding EEA Law as an integral part of Norwegian Law

Why is the law of the European Economic Area (EEA), which binds Norway to the EU’s internal market, so difficult for Norwegian lawyers to understand? And how can those responsible for making and applying Norwegian law better adapt to the obligations flowing from EEA law? These are the main challe...

Awarded: NOK 21.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2029

Location: Vestland

DEMOKRATI-DEMOKRATI

Research Centre on the European Dimension of Norwegian Law

The EEA Agreement has not only been the cornerstone of Norway's relationship with the EU for over 30 years; It also creates challenges for the Norwegian legal system. Because public administration, prosecuting authorities, judges, lawyers, and university jurists have made misjudgments regarding t...

Awarded: NOK 21.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Kunnskapsoversikt om arbeid- og velferdstjenestene

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Awarded: NOK 1.6 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2023

Location: Oslo

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS (Samfunn)

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Awarded: NOK 107.4 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - SNF

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Awarded: NOK 26.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - ISF

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Awarded: NOK 43.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Oslo

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU SNF

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Awarded: NOK 0.53 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Vestland

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

Biobank Norway 4 - a national biobank research infrastructure

As a national research infrastructure, Biobank Norway (BN1 2011-15, BN2 2016-20, BN3 2020-24) has been instrumental in the establishment of a modern, advanced and comprehensive nationwide biobank network at all partner institutions and has fulfilled a primary objective of promoting outstanding re...

Awarded: NOK 100.0 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2031

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Work and Health in Old Age - For whom is continued work beneficial to health?

All over Europe, there is increased focus on longer working lives due to increased life expectancy and decreased birth rates, which put strains on welfare funding across nations. Although the overall population on average is healthier, better educated and has longer careers than before, there is ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2029

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Nordic comparative micro-data laboratory for analyses of common shocks: The case of Covid19

The Nordic countries have for many years been leaders in the use of administrative data for research. Such data have to a lesser extent been used for comparative studies across countries. We believe there is great potential for learning more by using register data from several countries in conjun...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Nordic labour market models facing pandemic crisis: A comparative study of policy responses, actor adjustments, and social outcomes

The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the labour market. Many were furloughed or lost their jobs. The authorities implemented measures to counteract the negative effects of the pandemic. Fafo, in collaboration with researchers from the universities of Gothenburg and Aalborg, is conducting studi...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2026

Location: Oslo

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Challenges to shaping an inclusive work-life in rapidly changing labour markets: Firms, Human capital, and Family policy

Governments have implemented policies to address gender disparities and the underrepresentation of women in power, yet equality remains. Significant funds are allocated to social and family policies to promote welfare and equality. Most research and policy reports focus on individual outcomes, ov...

Awarded: NOK 12.4 mill.

Project Period: 2021-2027

Location: Vestland

VELFERDTEMA-VELFERDTEMA

Shades of Grey: Negotiating Age Norms, Class and Gender in the time of Pension Reform

The pension reform in 2011 gave older workers strong incentives to postpone their exit from the labor market, and in coming years many will have to work for longer to accumulate a sufficient pension. Employees have thus gained stronger motivation to stay in their jobs, yet employers’ incentives t...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo

FORSKNINGSINFRA-FORSKNINGSINFRA

National Microdata Platform for Norwegian and International Research and Analysis

The service microdata.no provides researchers and analysts with online, self-service access to link and analyze registry data from Statistics Norway (SSB) without the need to apply for access to the data itself and while maintaining privacy of the registered individuals. Users of microdata.no nev...

Awarded: NOK 42.3 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2026

Location: Oslo

VAM-Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon

Direct and indirect costs of disabilities in children

The "Budget" project has investigated the costs and consequences associated with caring for a child with disabilities. These include direct expenses such as medications, specialized equipment, transportation, housing, and respite care. In addition, parents often face indirect costs, as caregiving...

Awarded: NOK 11.2 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2024

Location: Oslo

HELSEFORSKNING-Helseforskning

Uptake: Socio-spatial inequality among families with children with disabilities who are entitled to cash benefits and welfare services

The Uptake project has provided insight into how socioeconomic status, immigrant background and place of residence affect access to and use of benefits and services among families with children with disabilities. The project has also contributed knowledge about how the support system works in col...

Awarded: NOK 11.7 mill.

Project Period: 2020-2025

Location: Oslo