• The age profile of European welfare states: A source of intergenerational conflict? 

      Bay, Ann-Helén; Pedersen, Axel West (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Many have predicted that population aging will lead to increased distributional conflicts between the young and the old. Younger population segments will oppose the heavy burden that pension systems and public provision ...
    • Aging and Health Care Costs 

      Karlsson, Martin; Iversen, Tor; Øien, Henning (Chapter; Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018-10)
      An open issue in the economics literature is whether health care expenditure (HCE) is so concentrated in the last years before death that the age profiles in spending will change when longevity increases. The seminal article ...
    • Aims of citizenship education across Nordic countries: Comparing school principals' priorities in citizenship education 2009-2016 

      Seland, Idunn; Huang, Lihong; Arensmeier, Cecilia; Bruun, Jens; Löfström, Jan (IEA Research for Education;Volume 11, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-27)
      The Nordic welfare state has been associated with certain ideas of citizenship, the highlights of which are equal rights, social mobility, democracy, and participation. To better understand how these ideas are interpreted ...
    • Arbeidsinkludering, læring og innovasjon i NAV 

      Kane, Aina Aune; Spjelkavik, Øystein (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Økt arbeidsdeltakelse blant utsatte grupper blir i vårt samfunn forsøkt realisert gjennom en offentlig aktiveringspolitikk bestående av arbeidsrettet bistand og økonomiske ytelser. Med utsatte grupper mener vi mennesker ...
    • Arbeidsmigrasjon inn til og ut av Agder 

      Tønnessen, Marianne (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Not everyone working in Agder was born in Agder – or in Norway. Roughly one out of every seven employees in Agder today was born abroad and came to Norway as an immigrant. This chapter uses figures from Statistics Norway ...
    • Boligsosiale virkemidler. En teoretisk veileder 

      Sørvoll, Jardar; Nordvik, Viggo (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-01)
      Boligsosiale virkemidler kan defineres som redskaper utformet for å hjelpe vanskeligstilte husholdninger med å skaffe seg og/eller opprettholde en tilfredsstillende boligsituasjon. Forskningslitteraturen om boligsosiale ...
    • Bostedsløse, uteliggere og tiggere - konstruksjon av "verdige trengende" og "de andre" 

      Dyb, Evelyn (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2022-10-17)
      I løpet av to tiår er betegnelser som løsgjenger, hjemløs og uteligger erstattet av begrepet bostedsløs i forskning, offentlige dokumenter og til dels i mer uformelle sammenhenger. Begrepet bostedsløs markerer at problemet ...
    • Brazil - the rise and fall of democratic developmentalism 

      Braathen, Einar (The Democratic Developmental State: North-South Perspectives;, Chapter; Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018-03-30)
      The impeachment of the Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff in August 2016 brought to an end a political movement linked to the Workers' Party (Partido dos Traba/hadores, PT) and its leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Lula, ...
    • Changing Welfare Institutions as Sites of Contestation 

      Vabø, Mia (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2015)
    • Childbearing behaviours of Polish migrants in Norway 

      Pustułka, Paula; Krzaklewska, Ewa; Huang, Lihong (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      The chapter explores the aspects of childbearing, procreation plans and fertility among Polish migrant couples and families settled in Norway. It tackles the migration-fertility nexus by engaging with five hypotheses put ...
    • Childlessness and Psychological Well-Being in Midlife and Old Age 

      Hansen, Thomas (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-22)
      This entry reviews the literature on the relationship between parental status and psychological well-being in middle and old age. Psychological well-being is defined broadly, in order to capture the complexity of the costs ...
    • Cuatro narrativas de desempleo para jóvenes adultos en Europa 

      Bøhler, Kjetil Klette; Tolgensbakk, Ida; Vedeler, Janikke Solstad (Chapter; Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2018)
    • Demographic Profile of Syrians in Norway 

      Tønnessen, Marianne; Dzamarija, Minja Tea; Drahus, Kristin M. (European Studies of Population; Volume 20, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-15)
      The number and composition of Syrians in Norway changed dramatically from 2011 to 2018. Most notably, the size of the Syrian immigrant population increased from less than 1500 to 27,400 – more than an 18-fold growth. The ...
    • Developing Digital Citizenship and Civic Engagement Through Social Media Use in Nordic Schools 

      Christensen, Ingrid Reite; Biseth, Heidi; Huang, Lihong (IEA Research for Education;Volume 11, Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-02-27)
      In this chapter, we explore the factors involved in developing digital citizenship through social media use in schools for 14-year-old students in four Nordic countries. The call for digital citizenship and digital citizenship ...
    • The digital generation. Representations of a generational digital divide 

      Seland, Idunn; Hyggen, Christer (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-09-13)
      This chapter addresses the interplay between the welfare state and intergenerational dependency, focusing on transfers between generations related to housing. In this chapter, dependence refers to how public policy ...
    • Drug use and early job insecurity 

      Tolgensbakk, Ida; Ayllón, Sara; Schoyen, Mi Ah; McDonnell, Ann; Bussi, Margherita; O'Reilly, Jacqueline (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 ...
    • En plaget ungdomsgenerasjon? 

      Madsen, Ole Jacob; von Soest, Tilmann (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-18)
      In this chapter we present an overview of the prevalence of and trends in psychological distress among Norwegian adolescents, including self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression. We specifically highlight Ungdata ...
    • En plaget ungdomsgenerasjon? 

      Madsen, Ole Jacob; von Soest, Tilmann (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-18)
      In this chapter we present an overview of the prevalence of and trends in psychological distress among Norwegian adolescents, including self-reported symptoms of anxiety and depression. We specifically highlight Ungdata ...
    • Ethics and access when consent must come first: consequences of formalised ethics for ethnographic research in schools 

      Smette, Ingrid (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-13)
      Schools as fieldwork sites are tempting because they appear to provide easy access to a field. The researcher has permission to be in the place of study, and those studied are obliged to be there – teachers through their ...