Work and welfare [ARV]

The goal of the research is to obtain greater insight into employee behaviour, firms’ adaptive arrangements, the workings of the labour market and how advantages and disadvantages are distributed through paid work. An inclusive working life depends on economic incentives encouraging people to work and on employers earning money from taking them on. To explain why so many people of working age in Norway have social security benefits as their source of income we need to learn about social security arrangements, their implementation and effects.

Insight into these matters is of general interest as means of understanding social developments. Knowledge of this type is also of great significance as a basis for decision making in politics, industry and working life. Research-based knowledge is important for enabling the formulation of objectives and for selecting the best instruments. Communication of research results takes place first and foremost by publishing in national and international journals and the institute’s own report series, but also by presentations at seminars and lectures.

Of current research themes wage setting and wage distribution could be mentioned along with participation in paid work, unemployment, mobility in internal and external labour markets and evaluation of labour market policy instruments. Information required for the empirical research comes from many sources, national and international.

For certain studies we collect information of a qualitative nature, and draw on official statistics on countries, industries and occupational groups. Most of the research and nearly all of the analyses are, however, based on information about individuals and firms obtained by surveys or held in administrative registers.

Research Director (interim): Pål Schøne
email: psc@samfunnsforskning.no
phone: +47 23 08 61 82

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