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Is it possible to make positive use of narcissism in the workplace and could it have any real benefits? Researchers have examined this in a new study.
The probability of young people ending up with debt problems is linked to their parents’ socioeconomic background.
Older parents have varying expectations about how much support they ought to receive from their adult children, while adult children have their own perspectives on the matter. However, attitudes alone do not determine who will provide help when the need arises.
If Norway wants its welfare state to support future generations, and today’s population, research says it will need to imagine its place in a more sustainable global system.
If current trends continue, today’s six-year-olds are expected to face twice as many wildfires and five times as many droughts during their lifetimes compared to today’s adults.
A large Norwegian study shows that social isolation and loneliness can significantly increase the risk of early death among older adults.
Norway is a gender equal and diverse country, but disparities in parenting roles persist with detrimental economic implications.
“There are schemes designed to alleviate the burden on mothers, but evidence suggests they are not effective,” says NOVA researcher Kaja Larsen Østerud.
Barnahus is an innovative model of caring for and supporting children who have been the victim of violence and sexual abuse. It provides a safe and supportive environment to meet their legal, medical, and psychological needs.
Technological revolutions have happened before, but none are quite so wide-ranging as the one we are currently living through. The past holds examples for how we can mitigate the negative consequences of and make sure the benefits don’t just go to those who already have power.
Exposure to earlier illness likely holds the key to understanding why some groups in Alaska suffered disproportionately high death rates in the 1918 influenza pandemic, OsloMet researchers have found.
Digitizing government welfare services is supposed to help make services more accessible to everyone. Are they unintentionally leaving people behind?
A close look at the principles governing the management of Norway’s oil fund shows that it may run out in two generations or less.
Norway and many other European countries have robust social safety nets. Yet they continue to fail their poorest citizens.
Over the past decade, European countries have grown more restrictive in whom they grant protection, and for how long that protection is granted.
A deep socioeconomic divide splits Oslo from east to west. It will continue to deepen unless it is more widely acknowledged and addressed.
A new survey reveal strong support for Norway’s Russia policies and broad support for Ukraine.
How many people can our planet sustain? This is one of the questions demographer Marianne Tønnessen is asking as Earth reaches this population milestone.
Most parents have reflected on how the neighbourhood they live in affects their children’s futures. Yet most research ignores parents' role in actively shaping the communities their children grow up in.
State-run integration programs tend to view immigrants through an employment-colored lense. Erika Gubrium thinks she has found a better way.
Despite the increasing educational level of the population, the risk of becoming unemployed or becoming a social assistance or disability benefit recipient is not decreasing correspondingly, according to new research from OsloMet.
Researchers have studied conversations on Twitter among Islamist extremists and far-right extremists.
Sometimes, youth feel like strangers in their own countries. In the face of real and perceived injustices, some find community in extremism.
The people who leave can have as much impact on a country as those who come in. Yet not much is known about Norway's 30,000 annual emigrants.
