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Do Food Quality Schemes and Net Price Premiums Go Together?
(Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization;Volume 19, Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-12-03)This article addresses the issue of the profitability of Food Quality Scheme (FQS) products as compared to reference products, which are defined as analogous products without quality label. We approach this question by ... -
Do Immigrants’ Preferences for Neighbourhood Qualities Contribute to Segregation? The Case of Oslo
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Ethnic residential segregation is often explained with the claim that ‘immigrants don’t want to integrate—they prefer to stick together with co-ethnics’. By contrast, mixed neighbourhoods are seen as crucial for achieving ... -
Do knowledge gains from public information campaigns persist over time? Results from a survey experiment on the Norwegian pension reform
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-05-21)Government authorities use resources on information campaigns in order to inform citizens about relevant policy changes. The motivation is usually that individuals sometimes are ill- informed about the public policies ... -
Do sociodemographic factors play a role in the relation between COVID-19 infection and obesity? Findings from a cross-sectional study in eastern Oslo
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Aim This study aims to assess the odds of having COVID-19 according to an individual’s weight status and to identify the sociodemographic factors associated with having COVID-19 in a sample of individuals residing in the ... -
Do spouses coordinate their work exits? A combined survey and register analysis From Norway
(Research on Aging;36(5), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Research on spouses’ joint work exits is scarce, although household factors such as spouses’ work status, marital quality, and caregiving burdens are likely to affect seniors’ work engagement. We therefore examine whether ... -
Do terrorist Attacks Affect Ethnic Discrimination in the Labour Market? Evidence from Two Randomised Field Experiments
(British Journal of Sociology;Volume 70, Issue 1 - January 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-01-24)Terrorist attacks are known to influence public opinion. But do they also change behaviour? We address this question by comparing the results of two identical randomized field experiments on ethnic discrimination in hiring ... -
Do welfare regimes moderate cumulative dis/advantages over the life course? Cross-National evidence from longitudinal SHARE Data
(The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-24)Objectives: This study aimed to examine the cumulative disadvantage of different forms of childhood misfortune and adultlife socioeconomic conditions (SEC) with regard to trajectories and levels of self-rated health in old ... -
Does a raised mandatory retirement age influence managers' attitudes to older workers?
(Nordisk välfärdsforskning | Nordic Welfare Research;Årgang 5, nr. 2-2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-17)As a part of an international extending working life trend, Norway recently raised the mandatory retirement age (MRA) from 70 to 72 years. This article discusses possible effects on managers’ attitudes and behaviour towards ... -
Does Participatory Planning Promise Too Much? Global Discourses and the Glass Ceiling of Participation in Urban Malawi
(Planning Theory & Practice;Volume 20, 2019 - Issue 2, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-04-29)This article discusses how global ideas on co-production and citizenship built from below are translated into community mobilization and participatory planning practices in urban Malawi. It shows how limited national and ... -
Does Proof of Concept Trump All? RRI Dilemmas in Research Practices
(Science and Engineering Ethics;27, Article number: 7 (2021), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-02)Over the last decades, the dominant ways of conducting science have been challenged by responsible research and innovation (RRI) (Stahl et al. 2019). RRI is outlined in the Rome declaration as ‘the on-going process of ... -
“Does She Speak Norwegian?” Ethnic dimensions of hierarchy in Norwegian health care workplaces
(Nordic Journal of Migration Research;3(2), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-07)This article highlights implications of two aspects of glocalisation - migration and New Public Management - at different levels in the Norwegian health care sector. They meet in the concept of competence, the central ... -
Does social capital matter more when health status is poor? Labour market attachment among long-term recipients of social assistance in Norway
(European Journal of Social Work;Published online 19 Nov 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Long-term social assistance recipients are a disadvantaged group with loose labour market attachment, and they are therefore in dire need of an ‘alternative route’ into employment. Differing types of social capital (bonding, ... -
Does Use Matter? Comparison of Environmental Impacts of Clothing Based on Fiber Type
(Sustainability;Volume 10, Issue 7, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-07)Several tools have been developed to compare the environmental impact of textiles. The most widely used are Higg Materials Sustainability Index (MSI) and MADE-BY Fiber Benchmark. They use data from production to evaluate ... -
The domestic politics of international climate commitments: which factors explain cross-country variation in NDC ambition?
(Environmental Research Letters;Volume 15, Number 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-11)Under the Paris Agreement, parties self-determine their mitigation ambition level by submitting Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs). Extant assessments find that the collective ambition of current pledges is not ... -
Dress and the city: a comparative study of clothing and textiles environmental policy in five European cities
(Conference object, 2021)European clothing consumption has increased dramatically in recent decades, leading to a current average of 26 kg of textiles annually purchased per capita (EEA, 2019). While garments (and most of clothing’s environmental ... -
Dressing a Demanding Body to Fit In: Clean and Decent with Ostomy or Chronic Skin Disease
(Social Inclusion;2019, Volume 7, Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-31)This article discusses what kind of strategies people with a stoma or various chronic skin conditions, such as psoriasis or atopic dermatitis, use to find clothes that fit and enable them to fit in. Based on qualitative ... -
Drug use and early job insecurity
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-22)This chapter explores the association between drug use, early job insecurity and periods of high youth unemployment using quantitative and qualitative data. The quantitative analysis shows how young people’s behaviour and ... -
Duty, discipline and mental health problems: Young people’s pursuit of educational achievement and body ideals
(Journal of Youth Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-05-12)The last decades have seen an increase in mental health problems among young people in Western countries; this has been tied to increasing educational achievement pressure and body dissatisfaction. The purpose of this paper ... -
Dynamic capabilities and network benefits
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The number of publicly funded initiatives to establish or strengthen networks and clusters, in order to enhance innovation, has been increasing. The returns of such investments vary, and the aim of this study is to explore ... -
Dynamics of volunteering and life satisfaction in midlife and old age: Findings from 12 European countries
(Social Sciences;Volume 7, Issue 5, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-05-04)A growing literature shows that doing voluntary work not only helps the wider community but can also improve one’s own well-being. To date, however, few studies have examined the relationship between volunteering and ...