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Immigration Background and Differences in School-to- work Trajectories of Early School Leavers

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2021
This article focuses on the school-to-work trajectories of early school leavers in Sweden. I use sequence analysis of population-level registry data covering the first 10 years after compulsory school for 6404 early school leavers to identify four ...
Olav Nygård
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The Women, Peace, and Security Norms as seen by Norwegian Male Officers

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2023
This article explores how male officers in the Norwegian Armed Forces (NAF) understand the relevance of the global Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) norms in their conceptualizations of security work.
Sindre Bæk, Inger Skjelsbæk
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Help and Care to Older Parents in the Digital Society

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2023
This study examines the extent and predictors of employees’ help and care to their old parents and aims to contribute to policy development enabling employees to combine full-time work and caregiving to parents.
Heidi Gautun, Christopher Bratt
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Social (Im)mobility in Low-skilled and Low-wage Immigrant Niches

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2022
In the last two decades, many labor migrants have arrived in the Nordic countries where they concentrate in certain low-wage and low-skilled jobs – immigrant niches. The article analyzes the scope of social (im)mobility in terms of occupational careers,
Marie Holm Slettebak, Johan Fredrik Rye
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‘Competent’ or ‘Considerate’? The Persistence of Gender Bias in Evaluation of Leaders

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2020
The aim of this article is to analyze the possible persistence of gender bias in the evaluation of leaders in Finland. Findings are based on two different studies.
Salin Denise
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A Maternal Wall for Refugees? Gender and Labor Market Establishment in Sweden

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2021
Using longitudinal register data, we examined gender patterns in the long-term labor market establishment of refugees (n ≈ 11,700) and Swedish-born individuals (n ≈ 109,000).
Anne Grönlund, Madelene Nordlund
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Women in the Steel Industry: Closed in Corners or Provided with Possibilities

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2020
The steel industry has been one of the basic industries in both Sweden and Finland. It is in a process of change, where research and development play an increasingly prominent role.
Minna Salminen-Karlsson
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Being There No Matter What: Working in Publicly Provided Homecare Services

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2021
The aim of this article is to critically explore how formal and informal work practices interplay with gender in the shaping of homecare service’s work environments.
Annika Vänje, Karin Sjöberg Forssberg
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Leading the Way? State Employers’ Engagement with a Disability Employment Policy

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2020
In the literature on labor market integration, there is growing recognition of the importance of employers. This article aims to contribute to this stream of research by investigating state employers’ engagement with a soft employment quota launched ...
Kaja Larsen Østerud
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Ethnic Diversity and Firm Performance in Norway

Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2023
Ethnic diversity has received increased research attention in Nordic countries; however, only a few studies have looked at it from the perspective of firms.
Janis Umblijs, Ida Drange, Julia Orupabo
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