Senter for velferds- og arbeidslivsforskning (SVA)
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The temporal alignment of mental health consultations across family members: a study of Norwegian adolescents, their parents, and siblings
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Purpose Mental health problems among adolescents have become more prevalent in recent years. Parents’ and siblings’ mental health might be affected by living with a depressed adolescent. This study examines how the mental ... -
Utbytte fra deltagelse i lærings - og mestringstilbud for foresatte til barn og unge med langvarige helseutfordringer - en scoping review.
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Hensikt: Hensikten med denne systematiske kartleggingsoversikten er å gi en komplett oversikt over artikler som har undersøkt utbyttet av å delta på lærings- og mestringstilbud for foresatte til barn og unge med langvarige ... -
«Vi er jo ikke stonere»: bruk av cannabis og symbolske grenser blant ungdommer vest i Oslo
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)Bruk av illegale rusmidler forbindes ofte med lav sosial klasse og belastede områder i store byer. Det er derfor et paradoks at ungdommers bruk av cannabis, det mest utbredte illegale rusmiddelet i Norge, er høyere i ... -
Diffusion and Translation of the Barnahus Model Through the Lens of Institutional Tensions
(Chapter, 2024)Since the Barnahus model was first introduced in Iceland in 1998, it has spread to a number of European countries, both within and beyond the Nordic region. This introductory chapter has two main objectives: The first is ... -
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 ... -
The Norwegian Parliamentary Debates Dataset
(Others, 2025)Recent advancements in computing power and machine learning techniques have facilitated the digitization of new corpora, as well as new methods for studying high-dimensional data. This has enabled empirical investigations ... -
Institutional Barriers to Medical Examinations in Barnahus
(Chapter, 2024)Although ensuring that victimised children receive timely medical health assessments is among the key aims of Barnahus, this goal has proven difficult to achieve in Norway, the empirical case examined in this chapter. Few ... -
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 ... -
Health-related exit from employment before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Norway: Analysis of population-wide register data 2013–2021
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)People with health problems experience various labor market disadvantages, such as hiring discrimination and heightened risk of firing, but the impact of deteriorating economic conditions on health-related labor market ... -
Deliberating the Conditions for Implementing the Barnahus Model: Knowledge Drawn from an Institutional Analysis
(Chapter, 2024)Referring to the PROMISE network’s European Barnahus quality standards, this concluding chapter further explores the institutional tensions identified in the previous chapters. Although these standards are important for ... -
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 ...
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