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Private and Public Welfare Providers: What are the Implications for Citizenship Roles?
(Working paper, 2013)Universal social services have been, and are, a hallmark of the Scandinavian welfare model. This includes public financing as well as public provision of the services. Public financing of universal services is still an ... -
Private Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) in the Nordic Countries: Development and governance of the welfare mix
(Rapport – Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Research report, 2021)This report examines the role of private providers of ECEC services in the five Nordic countries: Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. For each country, we map the ECEC journey from a selective service at the ... -
Profiting from presenteeism? Effects of an enforced activation policy on firm profits
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)Activation requirements and graded benefits are strategies for reducing social insurance costs in comprehensive welfare states. In Norway, a policy of issuing graded rather than full time sickness absence certificates, is ... -
Promoting Diversity but Striving for Excellence: Opening the ‘Black Box’ of Academic Hiring
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Public, For-Profit, and Nonprofit Welfare Institutions in Norway: Distinctive Goals and Steering Mechanisms or Hybridity in a Dominant State
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2015)Nonprofit, public, and for-profit welfare institutions have different operational logics. The distinctiveness of a nonprofit institution is more prominent in some circumstances than in others. This paper is based on case ... -
Punished and banished: Non-citizen women's experiences in a Danish prison
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The Nordics have employed discourses of gender equality and women's rights and a welfare-oriented approach to punishment as integral parts of inclusive welfare states and their ‘goodness’. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork ... -
Quality differences of public, for-profit and non-profit providers in Scandinavian welfare? User satisfaction in kindergartens
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Research on differences between public, for-profit, and nonprofit providers of welfare services have provided mixed findings, depending on welfare state arrangement, regulation, and service area. This paper’s objective is ... -
Quasi-Market Regulation in Early Childhood Education and Care: Does a Nordic Welfare Dimension Prevail?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Until about 25 years ago, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland and Finland used a bureaucratic-professional governance model to reach common welfare goals in ECEC, something that arguably constituted a Nordic dimension. Since ... -
Reception conditions for asylum seekers in Norway and the EU
(Research report, 2007)The next four years will lay the premises for European asylum legislation and policy for years to come. A radical harmonization process is well underway. Coordinating mechanisms and common Directives have been put into ... -
Reduction or deflection? The effect of asylum policy on interconnected asylum flows
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2016)In 2015 Europe experienced an almost unprecedented number of asylum arrivals. The result was a revitalization of both the political and academic debates on the relationship between asylum policies and arrivals. In this ... -
Reell eller Ideell Konkurranse
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Konkurranse dreier seg ikke bare om priser og kostnader. Derfor kan ikke små åpne økonomier gjøre det bra ved bare å produsere det samme som andre land, på samme måte, men med lavere kostnader. Den reelle konkurransen ... -
Regional variation in health care utilization and mortality
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Geographic variation in health care utilization has raised concerns of possible inefficiencies in health care supply, as differences are often not reflected in health outcomes. Using comprehensive Norwegian microdata, we ... -
Registerdataanalyse: sykefravær, inkludering og frafall fra arbeidslivet. Delrapport 2
(Rapport – Institutt for samfunnsforskning, Research report, 2024)Vi undersøker utviklingen i arbeidsmarkedsdeltakelsen blant dem som står i fare for sykemelding og frafall fra arbeidslivet, etter yrker og bransjer ved å bruke registerdata om arbeidsforhold, sykefravær og helse samt en ... -
Reinterpreting the relation between motherhood and paid work: second-generation immigrant women in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2014)A pertinent question in contemporary Europe is whether the children of immigrants will reproduce the gender-complementary practices and ideals of the immigrant generation, which often include strong expectations that women ... -
Rekrutteringsmønstre, erfaringer og holdninger til styrearbeid blant ASA-selskapenes styrerepresentanter
(Research report, 2010)Høsten 2009 gjennomførte Institutt for samfunnsforskning en spørreundersøkelse blant alle styremedlemmer i norske allmennaksjeselskaper. Formålet var å øke kunnskapen om hvordan styremedlemmer rekrutteres, hva slags ... -
Religion og sosial kapital : Hva viser internasjonale spørreundersøkelser?
(Research report, 2013)Putnam og Campbell hevder i boka American Grace (2010) at religiøst aktive amerikanere er mer tillitsfulle og mer engasjerte borgere enn ikke-troende. Hovedmekanismen er deltakelse i religiøst baserte nettverk, som skal ... -
Religion, juss og rettigheter : Om skilsmisse, polygami og shari'a-råd
(Research report, 2008)Muslimske kvinner som tar initiativ til en sivilrettslig skilsmisse i Norge anses ikke alltid av omgivelsene å være skilt i henhold til islamsk lov. De kan ende opp i en situasjon beskrevet som «haltende ekteskap», og mange ... -
Resources and Intimate Partner Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2017)Combining DHS data for 580,000 women from 30 different countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, we analyze how both the incidence and the acceptance of intimate partner violence vary across time and space, in a region with record ...