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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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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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Former Glory and Challenges Ahead: The Definition of Working Life Research in Sweden
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014 This conceptual paper looks into the definition of “working life research” in Sweden and poses two questions: (1) How has the definition of the concept working life research changed over time? (2) Why has it changed?
Carin Håkansta
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Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013 In this article, we investigate the relations between discursive practices within the Danish construction industry and the perceived pain, physical deterioration, and strain affecting the construction workers. Of central importance is the widely accepted
Jeppe Z.N. Ajslev +4 more
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Measuring Employability for Disadvantaged Unemployed People? Evidence from Survey and Register Data
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 Disadvantaged unemployed Danes do not easily become re-employed. Previous literature has focused on unemployment versus employment. Expanding on this, the present article is a proposal to assess disadvantaged unemployed people’s employability.
Sofie Dencker-Larsen
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Understanding the Challenges Facing Occupational Health Services in the Swedish Public Sector
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 According to Swedish Work Environmental Act, all organizations are required to implement Occupational Health and Safety Management (OHSM). In support of this and when competence within the employer’s own organization is insufficient, regulations state ...
Lisa Schmidt +2 more
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Factors Affecting Prolonged Working Life for the Older Workforce: the Swedish Case
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2017 The aim of this paper is to uncover some of the mechanisms that could make the older workforce willing and able to stay employed. Our focus is on work-related factors that predict the probability of staying in employment despite entitlement to old-age ...
Tomas Berglund +2 more
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Gender Equality Policy in Sweden: 1970s–2010s
Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2012 The aim of this article is to give an overview of gender equality policy in Sweden from the 1970s until today. A number of political measures and whether these measures individually, as well as combined, have promoted gender equality and the dual-earner ...
Anita Nyberg
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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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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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