While the labour market is constantly changing, the goal of the ISF’s labour market research is constant: to contribute high-level empirical research to topics of societal relevance. Our research uses both qualitative and quantitative methods.
Labour market research at the ISF is wide-ranging, including topics such as employment, gender equality and discrimination, diversity in the labour market, sickness absence, and pay differences. In recent years we have also researched issues related to education, welfare, and migration in a labour market perspective. Although a large part of the research is performed on administrative register data, we also use survey data and, more recently, field tests.
Projects
- Active equality efforts
- Alternative work arrangements and worker welfare (ALTWORK)
- Collective Organisations, Support and Sustainability (Colossus)
- Consequences of the Pandemic for Living Conditions and Equality
- CORE Survey 2022 – The Equality Survey
- Determined to succeed? Maturation, Motivation and Gender Gaps in Educational Achievement
- Developments in alternative work arrangements
- Discrimination after employment
- Downplaying difference? How ethnic minorities navigate discrimination in Norway (NAVIGATE)
- Drivers of regional and economic development
- EU labor immigration and the organization of work
- Follow-up evaluation of new provisions on hiring from staffing agencies
- Gender Equality in the Business Sector
- Greening the economy – Facilitating Innovation, Economics and Labour Demand (Greenfield)
- Health-Gap: Health, Maturity, and the Gender Gap in Education
- Lost in Transition? Uncovering Social and Health Consequences of Sub-Optimal Transitions in the Education System
- Missing Men: New conceptual understandings of gendered educational choices
- Pay-roll mapping: A tool for a more gender equal working life?
- Power, Structure and Technology (PST)
- Pubertal timing and Inequalities in Education
- RoboNord
- Shades of Grey: Negotiating Age Norms, Class and Gender in the time of Pension Reform
- Survey of food distribution by voluntary organizations and other relevant actors
- The gender wage gap and its explanations and causes
- The interaction of volunteering with business
- Wage- and career development among highly educated workers in Norway, 2015-2022
- Welfare across borders: solidarity, equality and free movement (LEVEL)
- What we do For a Living: Gender biased differences in tasks and pay
- Work and family in an advanced economy (FAMWORK)
- Workers’ voice and the right to manage – the case of whistleblowing in a comparative context
Researchers
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