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Hybrid Work Patterns: A Latent Class Analysis of Platform Workers in Denmark
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2022 This paper presents a novel approach for studying differences and similarities among platform workers, by taking into account the wider labor market position of platform workers.
Jonas Hulgård Kristiansen +2 more
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Mental Health and Access to Active Labor Market Programs
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2020 This paper examines the often-overlooked precondition for successful implementation of active labor market policy, namely equal access to labor market programs.
Magne Bråthen +2 more
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Temporary Employment and the Future Labor Market Status
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 The aim of this article is to describe and explain the development of temporary employment in Sweden between 1992 and 2010, and to investigate the effect of temporary employment for individuals’ future career on the labor market.
Tomas Berglund +3 more
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Employment as a Price or a Prize of Equality: A Descriptive Analysis
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 To put Scandinavian employment in perspective, we ask whether wage compression hampers employment rates, or not. We answer by reviewing the most important theoretical arguments and the most informative regularities across countries with different wage ...
Erling Barth, Karl Ove Moene
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Reemployment of Displaced Workers – The Case of a Plant Closing on a Remote Region in Finland
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The aims of this article are to examine the reemployment of displaced workers and individual factors that predict reemployment and education, earnings in new jobs, and paths to reemployment.
Arja Jolkkonen +2 more
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Temporary Agency Work as a Means of Achieving Flexicurity?
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 After decades of debate about flexibility, flexicurity has become a new buzzword in working life. Flexicurity refers to both the employer’s demand for flexibility and the employee’s demand for security. Thus, the idea is to solve the flexibility–security
Kristina Håkansson +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 In this study, we investigate whether, or to what degree, a ‘business case’ could be made for implementation of a Supported-Employment (SE) inspired program for pupils with intellectual disabilities (IDs), starting during the final school years. For this
Susanna Larsson Tholén +2 more
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An Argument and an Outline for a New Employment Scheme
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 Liberalism is celebrating triumphs in these years. As faith in the welfare state and Keynesianism began to crack in the 1970s, capitalist principles were revitalised and the old virtues and dogmas were found and dusted.
Henning Hansen +2 more
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2016 This article explores responses by frontline workers in the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service (NAV) to activation policy measures. Frontline workers in NAV are required to write work capability assessments for long-term sick and disabled benefit ...
Heidi Moen Gjersøe
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Work and Labor in Slow-Progressive Sectors of the Economy
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 In the late 1960s, William Baumol demonstrated that structurally unbalanced growth, with the associated cost disease phenomenon, can be expected to have some very particular effects on work and labor in slow-progressive sectors of the economy: performing
Matti Vuorensyrjä
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