Senter for velferds- og arbeidslivsforskning (SVA)
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Implications of Childhood Autism Spectrum Disorder for Maternal Employment: United States vs. Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Objectives A country’s social welfare system may play an important role in maternal employment. This study compared the labor market participation of mothers of children within the United States (U.S.) and Norway to examine ... -
Democratic limitations of urban climate governance: proactive and reactive citizen action in four Scandinavian cities
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)In this article we examine the limitations of democratic governance of climate transformation in cities. Advancing the literatures on urban climate governance and climate urbanism, the article asks, how do urban governance ... -
Hva betyr sosial bærekraft?
(Fagbladet samfunn og økonomi;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Hensikten med denne artikkelen er å presisere og problematisere bærekraftsbegrepet og koble det opp mot styringen av offentlig sektor. Siden 1980-tallet har ulike regjeringskonstellasjoner innført nye styrings- og ... -
Sexting and Mental Health in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Purpose Research has shown that sexting—the practice of sending, receiving, and forwarding sexual messages on digital media services—is associated with poor mental health. However, few studies have moved beyond cross-sectional ... -
Popular support for a universal basic income – still sensitive to playing the immigration card?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This article aims to investigate the persuasive power of immigration on people's attitudes towards a universal basic income (UBI). We use a survey experiment in which respondents, after being asked about their immediate ... -
Childhood Maltreatment and Revictimization in Young Adulthood: Is Problematic Substance Use a Mediator? A Linked Survey–Register Data Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Victims of childhood maltreatment often experience revictimization later in life. However, there is scant knowledge of the explanatory mechanisms that generate this phenomenon. Problematic substance use is a maladaptive ... -
Decentering Durability: Decarbonizing and Decolonizing Ideas and Practices of Long-Lasting Clothes
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Durability is widely recognized as a key feature of materially resourceful, lower-carbon clothing lives. Yet most of what is known about long-lasting garments is rooted in Euro-American ways of thinking, and reproduces its ... -
Uptake of cash benefits among children with a disability in Norway: The role of parental socioeconomic characteristics and immigrant background
(International Journal of Social Welfare;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Caring for a disabled child involves both indirect and direct economic costs, which in turn may create a financial burden for the family. Using Norway as a case, we examine if public compensatory measures reach those most ... -
The State as a Marketizer vs. the Marketization of the State: Two Organizational Models of Public Sector Corporatization
(Public Organization Review;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Governments engage in corporatization by creating corporate entities or reorganizing existing ones. These corporatization activities refect an interplay between political agency and environmental pressures, including ... -
Evaluating COVID-19 Impact, Vaccination, Birth Registration, and Underreporting in a Predominantly Indigenous Population in Chiapas, Mexico
(BMC Infectious Diseases;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Background: Indigenous populations globally face significant health disparities compared to non-Indigenous groups, primarily due to marginalization and limited access to healthcare. In Mexico, which is home to the largest ... -
The politics of the minimum wage: Explaining introduction and levels
(British Journal of Industrial Relations;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)There is much economics research on the effects ofminimum wages, but little research on their poli-tics. Yet, ever more advanced capitalist democracieshave introduced minimum wages, and the setting ofminimum wage levels ... -
Everything but the Marriage Certificate: Unmarried Partners in Norwegian Immigration Regulation
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Pandemic border closures separated previously transnational couples, including unmarried partners, revealing under-researched forms of transnational family life. From this point of departure, we reexamine Norwegian family ... -
Follow the money: Income requirements in Norwegian Immigration Regulations
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021)Following the 2015 refugee crisis, Norwegian politicians introduced proposals to extend a family reunification income requirement to refugee sponsors and to introduce an income requirement for permanent residence. Family ... -
Do integration requirements undermine egalitarianism?
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2023)For decades, policy makers have expressed concerns about immigration potentially undermining the welfare state. In this chapter, we examine a new income requirement for obtaining permanent residence. We argue that this ... -
‘Gamers’ Crafted by Consumption: The Influence of Consumption on Gender Identities in Video Games
(Consumers and Consumption in Comparison;, Chapter; Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Playing online games is a highly gendered consumption activity. While female players are objectified and harassed within the gaming community, male players tend to be stigmatized through unfavorable stereotypes. More than ... -
Getting to Grippe With Influenza: An Investigation of Why the Disease Is Called That
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)We investigate influenza-related terminology to gain a deeper understanding of what may have driven the choice in disease name when competing options were available. It is unclear why influenza in English should be called ... -
Automation and worker organisation
(Applied Economics Letters;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)In this study, we estimate the effect of workplace automation on the probability of unionization,examining different worker groups in the manufacturing sector in Norway. The results show thatautomation increases the ... -
Ulik lønn for likt arbeid? Lønnsforskjeller mellom kvinner og menn, 2015–2022
(Rapport – Institutt for samfunnsforskning;, Research report, 2024)Lønnsforskjellene mellom kvinner og menn består. I perioden vi studerer (2015–2022), har den gjennomsnittlige forskjellen i timelønn ligget nesten uendret på rundt 13 prosent. En viktig forklaring er at kvinner og menn ... -
Algorithmic Governance and Co-determination in Norway: Insights from White-Collar Workers and Trade Union Representatives in the Finance and News Media Industries
(Research report, 2024)This report focuses on the intersection of algorithmic governance and co-determination in the financial and news media industries of Norway. We interrogate the possibilities and limitations of the Norwegian (micro) model ... -
Urban transitions towards sufficiency-oriented circular post-consumer textile economies
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Wealthy cities are the primary hubs for excessive consumption and disposal of fashion and textiles. As such, cities have the power to support urban transitions toward more circular and sufficient consumption patterns. ...
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