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Dynamic capabilities and network benefits
(JEMI, 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 ...
The Social Homeownership Model - the case of Norway
(Institute of Sociology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2017)
In Norway, mass home ownership has been an important part of social housing in the post-war period. Social housing became available to everybody and a great majority seized the opportunity. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) ...
Completion in vocational and academic upper secondary school: The importance of school motivation, self-efficacy, and individual characteristics
(2017)
A vast amount of research is devoted to identifying factors that predict early school leaving. However, there is no simple explanation because the results show that young people leave education prematurely for various ...
Pathways to Integration: Cross-cultural Adaptations to the Housing Market in Oslo
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)
Immigrants move not only from one country to another, but also to different ways of living and different kinds of housing systems. Based on the studies among households with Pakistani, Tamil and Somali background in Oslo, ...
Nordic reforms to improve the labour market participation of vulnerable youth: An effective new approach?
(Wiley, 2014)
This article asks how the legitimacy (recognition or
misrecognition) of “ethnicity” and “disability” influences
public policies to promote the inclusion of young adults in the
Nordic labour markets. The article ...
The strength and vulnerability of school-age children
(Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, 2017)
BACKGROUND
Children between the ages of 5 and 14 appear to have a lower risk of dying than both
younger and older individuals.
OBJECTIVE
We looked for possible factors influencing the mortality rates ...
Cascading Norwegian co-streams for bioeconomic transition
(Elsevier, 2017)
A circular bioeconomy has become a global aspiration for governments in Europe and around the globe. This article pursues research questions concerning concrete innovations aiming to create bioeconomic transition options ...
Occupational Closure and Wages in Norway
(Sage, 2016)
Recent literature has pointed to occupational closure in order to explain wage inequality between occupations. The basic argument of occupational closure is that average occupational wages are higher in closed occupations ...
Understanding the increase in parents’ involvement in organized youth sports
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2016-02-18)
As part of an ethnographic study on young people and learning (the
knowledge in motion across contexts of learning project, set in Norway),
we interviewed a diverse sample of parents of young teenagers, many of
whom ...
Do Immigrants’ Preferences for Neighbourhood Qualities Contribute to Segregation? The Case of Oslo
(Taylor & Francis, 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 ...