Fafo in the press, April 2005

Advarer næringslivet mot jusfeller i Irak. Fafo Director Mark Taylor warns Norwegian private sector of legal risks of investing in Iraq. Stavanger Aftenblad, April 29

Overgangsordning uten effekt? (Transitional arrangement without effect?) Research Director Jon Erik Dølvik clarifies his view, in Dagsavisen, April 28

Re får hjelp til å bekjempe fattigdom (Help in fighting poverty). The Norwegian Minister of Children and Family Affairs has invited four counties to participate in a joint poverty project that Fafo will also be a part of. Tønsbergs Blad. See also TA Nettopp, April 27-28

Vanskelig for NJ å stå alene (Hard for Norwegian journalists to be on their own). Fafo Director Jon Hippe speaks at Norwegian Union of Journalists' annual meeting, referred in Journalisten and in Kampanje, April 27

Innvandrere får ikke faste jobber (Immigrants don't get permanent employment). Dagsavisen interviewes Fafo researcher Anne Britt Djuve, who has written a chapter about immigrants and the labour market in the book Nytt arbeid (A new working life), to be released at The Institute for Social Research today. Also at Norwegian websites: Nopef-Aktuelt, Utrop, April 27

Blir oversett og går av med AFP (Overlooked employees retire). NRK refers to Fafo researcher Tove Midtsundstad's paper Seniorpolitikk i staten (Senior policy in the government), (in Norwegian only). Also at www.seniorpolitikk.no

Flest østeuropeere til Norge (Most Eastern labour migrants wants to go to Norway), tells NRK, and refers to Fafo, Also in: Østlandsposten, Finnmark Dagblad and Romerike Blad, April 25-29

Ordning uten effekt (Arrangement with little effect). Research Director Jon Erik Dølvik tells Dagsavisen that the Norwegian transitional arrangements after EU enlargement have not been a strong obstacle to labour immigration. He also suggests that rules safeguarding Norwegian may have attracted labour migrants. See also: Varsler tøffere linje mot polakker (Harder for the Poles), Polakk? Ja, takk! (Poles? Yes, please!) See also article in the weekly paper Ukeavisen Ledelse, April 25

Norge størst i Norden på arbeidsinnvandring (Norway most popular Nordic country among Eastern labour migrants). Research Director Jon Erik Dølvik is interviewed in Stavanger Aftenblad, April 24

Greit med handel med barn? (Is child trafficking tolerable?) Comment in Dagsavisen by the Fafo researchers Anette Brunovskis and Lise Bjerkan, April 21

Investerer lite i øst (Few investments in Eastern Europe). LO-Aktuelt about Fafo researcher Torunn Kvinge's paper Direkteinvesteringer i EUs nye medlemsland i Øst-Europa (Direct investments in EU's new member countries in Eastern Europe) (in Norwegian only), April 18

Er Nils Johnsen Burmas mann i Norge? (Burma's man in Norway?) Fafo researcher Christian Ruge is interviewed in Morgenbladet about Norwegian timber import from Burma, April 15

Helse kan ikke alltid telles. (Health cannot always be counted), Fafo researcher Trude Arnesen is interviewed in Tidsskrift for Den norske lægeforening (Journal of the Norwegian Doctor's Union), April 15

Sameflagget og nasjonens enhet (The Sami flag and the nation's unity). Contribution by Fafo Director Jon Hanssen-Bauer in Dagbladet, April 15

En modell for framtida. (A future model). Fafo researcher and leader of the Union 1 project, Espen Løken, made the final negotiations on April 8. Read what the leader of the Norwegian Post Organisation tells the trade union magasine on that occasion, April 11

Ledige styreverv. (Board vacancies). LO-Aktuelt about the lack of women in Norwegian board rooms, and with a reference to the Fafo report Kvinner i fagbevegelsen (Women in trade unions) (in Norwegian only), April 11

Also the Swedish paper Aftonbladet brings the interview with Fafo researcher Heidi Gautun, in Aftenposten: Skilte fedre blir alene som gamle (Divorced fahters can be lonely as old). Same article in various Norwegian papers; Nettavisen, Adressa, Stjørdalens Blad, Bergens Tidende and Norge idag-nett, April 4-11

Skrekkhistorier om helsetjenester (Scare stories about the health services). Comment by Fafo researcher Heidi Gautun in Dagsavisen, April 6

Advarer mot forvirret pensjonsdebatt. (Avoid a confusing pension debate). Fafo Director Jon Hippe tells Aftenposten that politicians now have a golden opportunity to create a more simple and fair pension system, April 6

Når varslere skal vernes (When whistleblowers should be shielded). Comment by Fafo researchers Marit Skivenes and Sissel Trygstad in Bergens Tidende. See their Fafo-paper Når arbeidstakere ytrer seg kritisk (in Norwegian only), April 1

Iraks barn sulter mer (More malnutrition among children in Iraq). Fafo research director Jon Pedersen comments in Aftenposten about the information presented by Jean Ziegler, the UN Human Rights Commission's special expert on the right to food. The information presented by Ziegler was based on the Iraq Living Conditions Survey carried out by Fafo and the Iraqi Central Bureau of Statistics for the UN Development Programme, April 1