Anniken Hagelund explores the consequences of more active and individualised welfare policies for conceptualisations of professionalism and competence in the welfare services.
Jan Grue reflects upon the categorisation, stigma and identity connected to disability policy.
Marielle Stigum Gleiss and Weiqiang Lin explore histographical questions on power, agency, and relations between the West and the Non-West in research on aviation and aeromobilities.
Is there a causal relationship between children's experience with larger sibships and their own fertility in adulthood? Sarah Cools and Rannveig Kaldager Hart examine this relationship further and finds that sizes of sibships in childhood affects men and women's fertility differently.
Marielle Stugum Gleiss takes on the political effects of the new discourse on Chinese migrant workers that emerged in the 2000s, and how this discourse is contested by an alternative discourse.
Jemima Garcia-Godos has written a review essay on the books "Victims of International Crimes: An Interdisciplinary Discourse" by Thorsten Bonacker and Christoph Safferling, "Justice for Victims: Perspectives on Rights, Transition and Reconciliation" by eds. Inge Vanfraechem, Antony Pemberton and Felix Mukwiza Ndahinda and "Reparation for Victims of Crimes against Humanity: The Healing Role of Reparation" by ed. Jo-Anne M.Wemmers.
Ivar Frønes has investigated the relationship between educational failure in compulsory schooling and the risk of social exclusion
Christine Friestad and Torbjørn Skardhamar investigate similarities and differences regarding socio-economic background, criminal history and recidivism involving new crimes between rape offenders and three other groups: other sexual offenders, non-sexual violent offenders and other offenders.
Eivind Grip Fjær and Sébastien Tutenges scrutinize the research on extended youth parties to identify general changes that young people undergo at these events.
Miriam Evensen, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Ole Melkevik, Anne Reneflot and Arnstein Mylketun have found that mental health problems in adolescence reduce average earnings in adulthood.
What is the relationship between family policy and the threshold to enter parenthood? Anne Lise Ellingsæter and Eirin Pedersen bring new insight into the relationship between family policy and fertility.
In this article Ann-Zofie Duvander and Anne Lise Ellingsæter ask how we can understand growing family policy hybridisation in the Nordic welfare state
Timothy R. Carter, Stefan Fronzek, Aino Inkinen, Ismo Lahtinen, Matti Lahtinen, Hanna Mela, Karen O’Brien, Lynn D. Rosentrater, Reija Ruuhela, Louise Simonsson and Emma Terama have investigated the potential impacts of climate change on elderly people in the Nordic region.
Eduardo S. Brondizio, Karen O'Brien, Xuemei Bai, Frank Biermann, Will Steffen, Frans Berkhout, Christophe Cudennec, Maria Carmen Lemos, Alexander Wolfe, Jose Palma-Oliviera and Cheng-Tung Arthur Cheng discusses how the creative tensions around the Anthropocene concept can help the research community to move toward new conceptual syntheses and integrative action-oriented approaches that are needed to producing useful knowledge commensurable with the challenges of global change and sustainability.
In this article, Solveig T. Borgen and Nikolai T. Borgen investigate whether a folk high school education prevents students from transfer and whether it makes students complete their first undergraduate education faster.
In this article, Nikolai T. Borgen shows that when the number of fixed effects is large, the computational speed is massively increased by using xtreg rather than regress to fit the unconditional quantile regression models
Ole Boe, Sofia Ellen Davidson, Fredrik A. Nilsen and Henning Bang has evaluated to what extent there is consistency between military cadet’s self-assessment and the observed behaviour during a combat fatigue course
Lars Böcker, Patrick van Amen and Marco Helbich has studied elderly daily mobility patterns
Lars Böcker and Toon Meelen have explored the motivations of people willing to participate in different forms of the sharing economy
Lars Böcker, Martin Dijst and Jan Faber investigate how and to what extent weather conditions affect transport mode choices, outdoor thermal perceptions and emotional travel experiences
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund, Kristian Heggebø and Jon Rogstad investigates if unemployed minorities face an additive or a multiplicative disadvantage in hiring processes
Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund explores the concept of rational laziness, as a way to better understand actors’ decision making
Nan Zou Bakkeli addresses the question of whether income inequality has an impact on individuals' risks of having health problems in China
In this article Bai Xuemei, Sander van der Leeuw, Anantha Duraiappah, Karen O’Brien, Frans Berkhout, Frank Biermann, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Cristophe Cudennec, John Dearing, Marion Glaser, Andrew Revkin Will Steffen and James Syvitski have reflected upon the future of the Anthropocene
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Jill Ahrens, Melissa Kelly and Ilse Van Liepmts research indicates that the majority of naturalised EU citizens onward migrate as a result of the discrimination and racism they experienced in their previous place of residence.