Browsing SVA - Norwegian Social Research (NOVA) by Title
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Den norske velferdsstaten: En sosial investeringsstat?
(Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning;19(01), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-01-01)Befolkningsaldring, globalisering og økonomisk omstilling har endret premissene for velferdsstaten. «Sosiale investeringer» står høyt på den europeiske dagsordenen som et mulig svar på disse utfordringene. Perspektivet har ... -
Den vanskelige deltidsknuten en særnorsk utfordring som rammer unge helsefagarbeidere
(Fagbladet Samfunn og Økonomi;Nummer 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)En nordisk undersøkelse (NORDCARE II), gjennomført i 2015 blant helsefagarbeidere i eldreomsorgen, tyder på at det i Norge er relativt mange som jobber i deltidsstillinger og relativt mange som oppgir at de ønsker å jobbe ... -
Detecting Imbalances in House Prices: What Goes Up Must Come Down?
(The Scandinavian Journal of Economics;Volume 121, Issue 4, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-03-07)I suggest a toolkit of four bubble-detection methods that can be used to monitor house price developments. These methods are applied to US, Finnish and Norwegian data. For the US, all measures unanimously suggest a bubble ... -
Developing dementia: The existensial experience of the quality of life With young-onset dementia- A longitudinal case study
(Dementia;Article first published online July 30, 2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Background: Cognition and the ability to take care of daily activities and oneself gradually declines among people with dementia. Studies are scarce, especially regarding how people with young-onset dementia (YOD) (<65 ... -
Developing Digital Citizenship and Civic Engagement Through Social Media Use in Nordic Schools
(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 Development of Global and Domain-Specific Self-Esteem From Age 13 to 31
(Journal of personality and social psychology;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-07-13)This study examines the development of global self-esteem and self-esteem in six specific domains across adolescence and young adulthood. Using a cohort-sequential design, we analyzed longitudinal data on 3,116 Norwegian ... -
Development of loneliness in midlife and old age: Its nature and correlates
(Journal of Personality and Social Psychology;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018-10-04)Research has long demonstrated that loneliness is a key risk factor for poor health. However, less is known about the development and predictors of loneliness across later adulthood. We examined these questions using ... -
The Development of loneliness through adolescence and young adulthood: Its nature, correlates, and midlife outcomes
(Developmental Psychology;2020, Volume 56, Issue 10 (Oct), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Adolescence and young adulthood are characterized by substantial sociodemographic, family, social, and personality changes that may influence loneliness. Although loneliness is a public health challenge, we know little ... -
Developmental Trajectories of Postpartum Weight 3 Years After Birth: Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study
(Maternal and child health journal;, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-01)This study explored the developmental trajectories of postpartum weight from 0.5 to 3 years after childbirth, and aimed to determine the associations between postpartum weight trajectories and prepregnancy body mass index ... -
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 ... -
The digital generation. Representations of a generational digital divide
(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 ... -
Digitalized Discharge Planning between Hospitals and Municipal Health Care
(Studies in Health Technology and Informatics;Volume 250: Nursing Informatics 2018, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)The use of digitalized collaboration between levels of care is expected to improve coordination in patients’ transitions. The aim of this study was to investigate how safe and effective e- messages were regarding discharge ... -
The Dilemmas of Means-tested and Market-oriented Social Rental Housing: Municipal Housing in Norway 1945-2019
(Critical Housing Analysis;Volume 6 Issue 1, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-16)In this paper, I analyse the post-war development of social rental housing in Norway. During the 20th century, Norwegian municipalities created some of the more means-tested and market-oriented social housing sectors in ... -
Disability and Regulatory Approaches to Employer Engagement: Cross-National Challenges in Bridging the Gap between Motivation and Hiring Practice
(Social Policy and Society;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-03-04)This article examines why employers struggle to include disability as part of their active diversity approach. Drawing on cross-national interview data from Norway and the USA, we point to the common finding of employers ... -
Disability Disadvantage: Experimental Evidence of Hiring Discrimination against Wheelchair Users
(European Sociological Review;Volume 37, Issue 5, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-03-27)Disability is associated with persistent labour market disadvantages. What is not clear is the extent to which these disadvantages result from employers’ discriminatory hiring decisions. Although observational research and ... -
Disability Discrimination: Employer Considerations of Disabled Jobseekers in Light of the Ideal Worker
(Work, Employment and Society;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-21)Labour market stratification and discrimination of disabled people remains a less researched topic compared to other minorities despite being a notably disadvantaged group. This article explores the employer side of ... -
Disclosing the Interviewer: Ethnopoetics and the Researcher's Place in Transcribed Interviews
(Ethnologia Europaea;Volume 50 • Issue 2 • Special issue: Brexit Matters, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-14)The transcription of oral interviews into textual data is a complex process. Translating spoken language with all its extralinguistic features into some sort of written text presentation – through transcribing it – is ... -
Discourse and Knowledge culture as a barrier to integrated policy initiatives
(Journal of Social Policy;, Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022-02-04)Integrated government initiatives have become a common approach following the institutional fragmentation of New Public Management reforms. Complex societal issues require equally complex solutions, which sectorial units ... -
Discrepancies in school staff’s awareness of bullying: A Nordic comparison
(Nordic Journal of Comparative and International Education;Vol. 3 No. 1 (2019): Special Issue: ICCS 2016 Teachers' Perspectives on Civic and Citizenship Education, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-24)Bullying is a severe problem for school students in many education systems. We know that the role of principals and teachers is vital for detecting and following up on bullying, and for implementing appropriate measures. ... -
Disentangling the dynamics of social assistance: A linked survey—Register data cohort study of long-term social assistance recipients in Norway
(PLoS ONE;15 (3): e0230891, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020-03-27)Social assistance is a means-tested benefit that is supposed to be a short-term, temporary economic support. Understanding why some individuals are in repeated or continuous need of social assistance is thus of obvious ...