This paper analyses the effect of hospital mergers on the probability of employee disability retirement, focussing on whether the effect on disability retirement differs with employee educational attainment. It uses register ...

Introduction The aim of this paper was to investigate the association between health, social position, social participation and the welfare state. Extending recent research on the social consequences of poor health, we ...

artikkelen drøftes hvordan barnevernsarbeidere bruker kulturelle forklaringer for å forstå minoritetsetniske barn og foreldres situasjon. Dette definerer vi som kulturalisering, en prosess der gitte situasjoner, problemer ...

På tross av økt individualisering i samfunnet oppfattes fremdeles barn og voksne, i det sosiokulturelle rommet, som relasjonelle kategorier som er gjensidig avhengige av hverandre. Denne typen gjensidig avhengighet og ...

Policing is a disciplining means for using welfare services to govern welfare recipients towards a desired behaviour or goal. We apply Foucault’s (1977) definition of institutional discipline as a means for exploring how ...

Background: Differences in mortality with regard to socioeconomic status have widened in recent decades in many European countries, including Norway. A rapid upsurge of immigration to Norway has occurred since the 1990s. ...

This article is on the issue of social pedagogy in a professional Norwegian child welfare context. Gerd Hagen’s analysis and argumentation on child welfare is a point of departure. In a too wide understanding of child ...

Denne studien undersøker arbeidsmarknadstilknytinga til personar med helseproblem i Danmark og Noreg i ein periode med låg etterspurnad etter arbeidskraft. Noreg og Danmark deler mange karakteristikkar, men stillingsvernet ...

Unemployment and health selection in diverging economic conditions: Compositional changes? Evidence from 28 european countries. Introduction People with ill health tend to be overrepresented among the unemployment population. ...