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Working Life, Society and Welfare

Young People May Face Particular Challenges in the Post-Corona Labour Market

The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in both a global health crisis and a financial crisis on a scale never before seen in modern times. The labour market that emerges in the wake of the crisis may impact younger workers harder than others.

Featured Projects

DARE – Dialogue on Radicalisation and Equality
DigiGen – The Impact of Technological Transformations on the Digital Generation
Migration for Welfare: Nurses within Three Regimes of Immigration and Integration into the Norwegian Welfare State (WELLMIG)
The Domestic Violence Research Programme
The Norwegian Life Course, Ageing and Generation Study (NorLAG)
A Life Course Perspective on the Gendered Pathways of Exclusion from Social Relations in Later Life, and its Consequences for Health and Wellbeing (GENPATH)

Recent Publications

Bøhler, K.K. (2020). Musical Politics in the Cuban Police Order. I J.P. Cachopo, P. Nickleson & C. Stover (red.): Rancière and Music. Edinburgh University Press
Vangen, H. (2020). The Impact of Informal Caregiving on Labour Supply Before and After a Parent’s Death. Journal of Population Ageing
Veenstra, M., Daatland, S.O. & Aartsen, M. (2020). The role of subjective age in sustaining wellbeing and health in the second half of life. Ageing & Society
Solem, P.E. (2020). The affective component of ageism needs attention. International Journal of Manpower
Heggebø, K., Dahl, E. og van der Wel, K.A. (2020). Disentangling the dynamics of social assistance: A linked survey—Register data cohort study of long-term social assistance recipients in Norway. Plos One
Vaughn, T.; Seeberg, M.L.; Gotehus, A. (2020). Waiting: Migrant nurses in Norway. Time and Society.

Featured Research

Working Life, Society and Welfare

Old Age and Happiness: Some Common Misconceptions

Are older people more likely to feel loneliness? Will having children make you happier when you get old? And are old men really as irritable as we think?

Curt Rice, Halla Bjørk Holmarsdottir, Rune Halvorsen and Per Martin Norheim-Martinsen.

OsloMet Research Projects Awarded Prestigious Horizon 2020 Grants

Two international research projects coordinated by research teams at OsloMet have been awarded a total of six million euros as part of the European Union’s flagship research programme, Horizon 2020.

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Five Measures That Can Prevent Violence Against Children

Less severe violence against children and young people is declining, whereas severe forms of violence remain stable. According to OsloMet researchers, there are five measures that can reduce severe violence.

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