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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2018)Throughout history, the introduction of new technologies has influenced economic, social, cultural, and human development. Today, the rapid development of new information and communication technologies (ICT) is changing ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)A critical stream of scholarship from North America and Europe, on employer preferences for low-wage labour migrants, suggest that the discourse of ‘the migrant work ethic’ works as a euphemism for the exploitability of ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Matsuda et al. (2022) show that late bloomers also exist in self-report data. They use a “dynamic” definition of late bloomer offending pattern as they have concerns with definitions based on arbitrary age cutoff points. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article analyses migration decisions and labour market manoeuvring of Latvian migrants to Norway, as well as the economic and social conditions that influence their choices. How do they adapt to the labour market in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)Knowledge-intensive services firms (KIS) depend on the skills and networks of employees, and tend to cluster in large-city regions. This raises the fundamental question of whether KIS ‘learn through urban labour pools’ in ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2024)Rather than a surprising and illogical move to leave oil in the ground for international compensation, Ecuador's Yasuní-ITT Initiative should be understood as an outcome of ongoing struggles of interests within the state ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Rural Alaskan youth are encouraged to pursue higher education in order to enhance individual and community resilience. However, the dwindling number of youth that return to their home communities after attending post-secondary ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2011)Hva kjennetegner den offentlige debatten om allmennkringkasting i Norge og Sverige? Hvordan legitimerer NRK og SVT sin rolle som lisensfinansiert allmennkringkaster? Og hvilken rolle tillegges allmennkringkasting fra ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)I denne artikkelen diskuterer jeg hva som kjennetegner legitimeringsretorikken rundt utvalgte offentlige institusjoner i Skandinavia under 2000-tallet. Jeg angriper legitimeringsretorikken som del av et mer omfattende ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)BACKGROUND The COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 involved closure of schools and strict limitations on social contact. The study examines whether this had an effect on the life satisfaction and subjective well-being ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1998)The Norwegian rightist underground consists of three fronts comprising rather different lifestyles and ideologies. The three fronts are the paramilitary groups, the National Socialist skinhead front, and the ideological ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)BAKGRUNN Covid-19-pandemien våren 2020 innebar skolestengning og strenge sosiale restriksjoner. Studien belyser om dette påvirket ungdoms livstilfredshet og subjektive livskvalitet. MATERIALE OG METODE En elektronisk ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)The majority of existing studies of internal armed conflict have explored the causes of conflict at the country level. While factors such as democracy, composition of the ruling elite or memberships of military alliances ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2016)The construction industry in India is one of the largest sources of employment in the country, but it is weakly regulated by labour legislation. As a consequence, construction workers are hired informally, their employment ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper explores alcohol-related sexual storytelling. In a qualitative study of more than 100 male participants in the night-time economy in Norway, many told animated and cheerful stories laced with erotic excitement. ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article presents long-term analyzed rainfall and temperature data obtained from the National Metrological Agency (NMA) of Ethiopia. Using tables and graphic trends of analysis, the article shows the low and declining ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2013)Background Several studies have reported significantly higher stress levels, both short and long terms, among mothers giving preterm birth compared with mothers giving birth at term. Stress, however, is a ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Abstract Schools and residential neighbourhoods constitute key contexts of development beyond the family of origin. Yet, few prior studies address whether the overall impact of these childhood contexts on adult ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Following the record number of asylum seekers to Europe in 2015, Norway intensified its practice of revoking migrants’ residence permits and citizenships, which primarily affected refugees and their families, and reflects ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2023)During the past decades, the rhetoric and the policy vision on what is often termed “the high skills society” has largely come to realization in many advanced economies. As the emphasis on the knowledge economy, upskilling ...