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    • Conceptions of gender and competencies among Scandinavian police students. 

      Bloksgaard, Lotte; Fekjær, Silje Bringsrud; Møberg, Rasmus Juul (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Volume 10 ❚ Number 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-05)
      Conceptions of gender and competencies may be of importance for the gendered allocation of tasks and may help explain gender segregation in the labor market and within organizations. Drawing on survey panel data from ...

    • ‘Crowded out’? Immigration surge and residents’ employment outcomes in Norway 

      Elstad, Jon Ivar; Heggebø, Kristian (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;2020, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-25)
      This study uses Norwegian public register data in a spatial correlation approach, and analyzes associations between regional variations in immigration and employment outcomes 2004–2015 in a cohort of adult residents (N = ...

    • The effect of retaining bonuses on delaying early retirement – financial incentives revisited 

      Hermansen, Åsmund; Midtsundstad, Tove Irene (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Vol 8 No 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-21)
      In this paper, we analyze the effect of the retaining bonus on early retirement behavior using a unique dataset consisting of a Norwegian employer survey from 2010 combined with register data on all older employees in the ...

    • Ethnic Diversity and Firm Performance in Norway 

      Umblijs, Janis; Drange, Ida; Orupabo, Julia (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      Ethnic diversity has received increased research attention in Nordic countries; however, only a few studies have looked at it from the perspective of firms. In this study, we analyze whether changes in ethnic diversity ...

    • Grounded Theory Analysis of Work-based TVET and Intersectional Challenges Between Construction Workers 

      Lensjø, Marit (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Volume 11 ❚ Number 4, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In this study, I examine training in the work-based part of Norwegian technical vocational education and training (TVET). The TVET model includes two years in school followed by two years of apprenticeship at an authorized ...

    • Help and Care to Older Parents in the Digital Society 

      Gautun, Heidi; Bratt, Christopher (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      This study examines the extent and predictors of employees’ help and care to their old parents and aims to contribute to policy development enabling employees to combine full-time work and caregiving to parents. Analyzing ...

    • Hospital Mergers in Norway: Employee Health and Turnover to Three Destinations 

      Ingelsrud, Mari Holm (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      This article investigates the probability of turnover to three destinations following hospital merg- ers: within the hospital sector, out of the hospital sector, and out of work. It is hypothesized that mergers increase ...

    • Key Insights into What Makes Public Organizations Learn from Training Programs 

      Reichborn-Kjennerud, Kristin (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021-10-19)
      Public organizations often operate in rigid environments with standardized procedures that are not conducive to learning, yet it is crucial that they continuously improve at solving their societal tasks in a satisfactory ...

    • Knowledge and Position: How to Manage Ambiguous Public Welfare Work 

      Rønningstad, Chris (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Volume 9, Number 2, June 2019, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-19)
      This study draws on 41 interviews with managers and employees in the Norwegian public welfare services. The findings describe how employees in ambiguous semi-professional work experience frontline managers as knowledgeable. ...

    • Leading the Way? State Employers’ Engagement with a Disability Employment Policy 

      Østerud, Kaja Larsen (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Vol 11, No 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-26)
      In the literature on labor market integration, there is growing recognition of the importance of employers. This article aims to contribute to this stream of research by investigating state employers’ engagement with a ...

    • A learning organization in practice: Service development in care work 

      Amble, Nina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The title is partly borrowed from David (P. G.) Herbst’s 1974 (a): A Learning Organisation in Practice. Herbst’s text has an empirical basis in a matrix, ship organization, while this article stems from a project in a ...

    • Long-term Sickness Absence Among Professionals: Investigating Gender, Socioeconomic Position and Care Work 

      Madsen, Aleksander Årnes (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Volume 8 ❚ Number 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-01-10)
      This study investigates whether the risk of long-term sickness absence among professionals depends upon their socioeconomic position and whether they do caring work. It also explores whether the variation in risk can be ...

    • Managers’ Beliefs about Measures to Retain Senior Workforce 

      Mykletun, Reidar J.; Furunes, Trude; Solem, Per Erik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      This paper aims to describe and explain the beliefs of public sector managers regarding measures to promote active ageing within organizations and how these beliefs can relate to their own atti tudes, age, gender, ...

    • Mental health and access to active labor market programs 

      Bråthen, Magne; Wel, Kjetil A. van der; Løyland, Borghild (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Vol 10 No 3 (2020), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-09-14)
      This paper examines the often-overlooked precondition for successful implementation of active labor market policy, namely equal access to labor market programs. Focusing on a cohort of social assistance recipients, we ...

    • Motivation, Migration and Non-standard Employment: A Survey Among Temporary Agency Workers 

      Underthun, Anders; Aasland, Aadne (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Volume 8, Number S4, Journal article; Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-11-27)
      Research suggests that migrants have a greater tendency to end up in nonstandard employment arrangements than native citizens do, but less attention has been paid to motivational differences within and between migrant ...

    • National diversity in Academia: What is the problem represented to be? 

      Maximova-Mentzoni, Tatiana; Egeland, Cathrine (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;Vol 9, No 3, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This article investigates problem representations of nationality diversity at higher education and research institutions in Norway and in the other Nordic countries. Nationality diversity refers to different nationalities ...

    • Older Workers and Work Exit Preferences in a Digitalized Working Life 

      Solem, Per Erik; Hauge, Linda; Hellevik, Tale; Herlofson, Katharina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      With working life being in the middle of both a demographic and a digital transition, a key question is whether digitalization may counteract the policy goal of delaying work exit. Here, we use survey data from the Norwegian ...

    • Significance of Monitoring and Control for Employees’ Felt Trust, Motivation, and Mastery 

      Bernstrøm, Vilde Hoff; Svare, Helge (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The aim of the current study is to investigate the importance of monitoring and employee control for employees’ felt trust, as well as felt trust as a mediating variable between monitoring and control, intrinsic motivation ...

    • Social Class, Union Strategies, and Preference in Wage Outcomes in Norway 

      Bergene, Ann Cecilie; Drange, Ida (Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-04-30)
      This article explores a potential socialization effect of unions on member preferences in wage out- comes and bargaining structures.This challenges notions of union wage policies simply reflecting the material self-interest ...

    • The Organization Theories of the Industrial Democracy Experiments Meet Contemporary Organizational Realities 

      Klemsdal, Lars; Ravn, Johan Elvemo; Amble, Nina; Finne, Håkon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The Scandinavian industrial democracy experiments (IDEs) contained elements of organization theories, based particularly on sociotechnical systems theory (STS). In this paper, we provide an introduction to some main points ...