Jon Erik Dølvik

Senior researcher
Dr. philos., Sociology, University of Oslo

E-mail: jon.erik.dolvik@fafo.no

Tel: +47 22088708

Work areas:
Comparative industrial relations and labour market governance in the EU/EEA, globalization, labour migration, and adjustment of social models in Europe

Current projects

NordMod 2030

Work Life Challenges. Workforce management and worker involvement solutions (with ISF, Frisch and SSB), NFR 2011-2014

FORMULA - 'Free movement, labour market regulation and multilevel governance in the enlarged EU/EEA - a Nordic and comparative perspective' (2009-2012), a comparative project covering 10 European countries headed by prof. Stein Evju, University of Oslo, in cooperation with  prof. Jonas Malmberg, University of Uppsala and Fafo. Funded by The Research Council of Norway program Europe in Transition.

Emerging Patterns of East-West Migration in Europe: New Patterns in a Changing Political Landscape. Two Phd-studies og Polish labour migration to Norway (by Jon H. Friberg) and labour migration from Ukraine (Guri Tyldum), to be finished 2012.  Cooperation with  Centre for Migration Research, University of Warsaw.

Research Agreement: Development of knowledge regarding labour immigration (2010-2013), funder by Ministry of labour, conducted  in cooperation with the Frisch centre at University of Oslo.   

Nordic Models Facing Crisis (2010-2013), comparative survey study of employment security and case studies of workforce adjustment in manufacturing, construction and media  during the economic crisis; conducted in cooperation with researchers at the Universities of Gothenburg, Aalborg, and Tampere.

Member of commission appointed by the Government to evaluate Norway’s agreements with the EU.

Articles and papers

(2009 with J. Visser)  ‘Free movement, Equal Treatment and Worker Rights: Can the EU solve its trilemma of fundamental principles?’,  Industrial Relations Journal, Annual European Review, 2/2009

(2009 with K. Nergaard) ‘Variable Pay and Collective Bargaining: A comparison of machinery and banking companies in Norway’, Economic and Industrial Democracy (accepted for publication).

(2009 with Ø. Berge, J. Christensen, J.E. Dølvik, T. Fløtten, J.M. Hippe, H. Kavli and S. Trygstad), De nordiske modellene etter 2000 – en sammenliknende oppsummering. Fafo-paper 2009:11

(2009 with K. Nergaard & H. Nicolaisen) ’Lønnssystemer med variable elementer’ pp. 267-280 in Søkelys på arbeidslivet 2/2009

(2009) ‘Nordic patterns of labour market adjustment’, WSI Mitteilungen, Schwerpunktheft  Das nordische model unter Anpassungsdruck 1/2009. Pp.10-17. (Later also published in Italian in  Stato e Mercato (2/2009)

(2009 with A.M. Ødegård), The Services Directive Strife: A Turning Point in EU Decision-making? FORMULA Working Paper. No. 7

(forthcoming 2009 with K. Nergaard, P. Marginson, J.A. Díaz and B. Becher) 'Engaging with variable pay: Metal worker responses in a comparative perspective.’ European Journal of Industrial Relations, 1

(forthcoming 2008 with Jon Horgen Friberg) Den nye arbeidsinnvandringen fra øst. Drivkrefter, utviklingstrekk og arbeidslivspolitiske konsekvenser. Background Paper for the IMER-Programme - Research in the field of Migration and Immigration The Research Council of Norway

(forthcoming 2008) Nordic patterns of labour market adjustment. WSI Mitteilungen, Sonderheft on Nordic models, December

(2008) Mobility of Labor and Services across the Baltic Sea after EU Enlargement: Trends and Consequences, Center for European Studies Working Paper Series #161, Cambridge

(2008) The Negotiated Nordic Labor Markets: From Bust to Boom. Center for European Studies Working Paper Series #162, Cambridge

(2007) 'Introduksjon' og 'Konklusjoner: Modernisering, konsolidering og nye utfordringer'. In: Dølvik, J.E., T. Fløtten, G. Hernes and J.M. Hippe, eds., Hamskifte. Den norske modellen i endring. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk

(2007 with J. Cremers and G. Bosch) 'Posting of Workers in the Single Market. Attempts to prevent social dumping and regime competition in the EU', Journal of Industrial Relations, 4

(2007) 'De nye europeiske arbeidsvandringene - utfordringer i det norske arbeidsmarkedet', NAVO Orienterer 2007/2

(2007) The Nordic regimes of labour market governance: From crisis to success-story? Fafo Council Programme 2006-2008. Fafo-paper 2007:07

(2006 with L. Eldring) 'EU enlargement two years on: what challenges to the Nordic labour market?' Nordic Labour Journal, 2 Vol.11 pp. 22-23

(2006 with Grete Brochmann) 'Arbeidsmigrasjon: Nye dilemmaer i et aldrende Europa', Horisont. Næringspolitisk tidsskrift, 2

(2006 with Line Eldring) 'Industrial Relations Responses to Migration and Posting of Workers after EU Enlargement: Nordic Trends and differences', Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research Vol 12, No 2

(2005 with L. Eldring) "Etter EU-utvidelsen: Arbeidsmigrasjon gjennom bakdøra skaper nye utfordringer i det norske arbeidsmarkedet." Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet, 4

(2005 with Jeremy Waddington) 'Can trade unions meet the challenge? Unionisation in mamrketised services', in Bosch,G. & S. Lehndorff eds. Working in the Service Sector.A tale from different worlds. London: Routledge

(2005) 'De nordiske arbeidslivspartene i EU: Europeisering, påvirkning og forsvar av de nasjonale avtalesystemene', in Ahlberg, K., eds., Tio år med EU - effekter på arbetsrätt, partsrelationer, arbetsmarknad och social trygghet, Work Life in Transition 2005:5, Stockholm: Arbetslivsinstitutet

(2004) 'Industrial relations under EMU: Are Renationalization and Europeanization two sides of the same coin?' in Martin, A. & G. Ross, Euros and European. Monetary integration and the European Model of Society, Cambridge University Press

(2004 with G. Brochmann) 'Is immigration an enemy of the welfare state? Between human rights and realpolitik in European immigration policies', Forthcoming in: Papademetriou, D. (ed.), Managing Migration: A Policy Agenda for Economic Progress and Social Cohesion. Washington DC: Migration Policy Institute

(2004) 'EU-utvidelsen og arbeidsinnvandring: grenser for solidaritet?' Søkelys på arbeidsmarkedet, 1:21-33

(2003 with C. Colclough and E. Løken) 'Internasjonal utvikling og fagorganisering i veitransporten', 'Oppsummering' in: Veitransport av gods i et grenseløst europeisk marked - utfordringer for nordiske fagforbund, Stockholm; Saltsa/Arbetslivsinstitutet/Fafo/FAOS

(2003 with M. Bråten) 'Nasjonal krise og internasjonal vekst i norsk metallindustri - utfordringer for fagorganisasjonene' in Blomqvist, P. and S. Murhem, eds., Fackliga strategier för att möta globaliseringen och regionaliseringen i metallindustrin, Stockholm; Saltsa/Arbetslivsinstitutet/Fafo/FAOS

(2003 with J. Waddington) 'Organising marketized services: Are trade unions up to the job?', Economic and Industrial Democracy Vol 25(1): 9-40

(2002) 'Private sector services: Challenges to European trade unions', Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research 3

(2002) 'European Trade Unions: Coping with Globalisation?' in Hoffman, J. (ed.) The Solidarity Dilemma: Globalisation, Europeanisation and the Trade Unions, ETUI, Brussels

(2001), Arbeidslivsrelasjoner i privat tjenesteyting – en sammenlikning av elleve europeiske land. Fafo-paper 2001:19

(2001), European Trade Unions: Coping with Globalisation? Fafo-paper 2001:18

(2001 with J. Visser) 'ETUC and Social Partnership: A Third Turning Point?', in Compston, H. and J. Greenwood, eds, Social Partnership in the European Union, Hampshire/New York: Palgrave

(2001) 'Introduction', 'Determinants of Service Employment: A Comparative Overview of the Issues', and 'The Impact of Post-Industrialisation on Employment and Labour Realtions - A Comparative Review', in Dølvik, J.E., ed., At Your Service? Comparative Perspectives on Employment and Labour Relations in the European Private Sector Services, Brussels/New York/London: PIE-Peter Lang.

(2000) "Norwegian trade unionism between traditionalism and modernisation", in Waddington, J. and R. Hoffmann, eds., European trade unions - facing the challenges? Brussels; ETUI/German version at Verlag Wästfalishes Dampfboot

(2000 with A. Martin) 'A Spanner in the Works and Oil on Troubled Water: The Divergent Fates of Social Pacts in Sweden and Norway' in Pochet, P. & G. Fajertag (eds) Social Pacts in Europe - New dynamics, OSE, Brussels

(2000) 'Building Regional Structures: ETUC and the European Industry Federations', Transfer - European Review of Labour and Research, 1

(2000) Economic and Monetary Union: Implications for Industrial relations and Collective Bargaining in Europe, Working Paper ARENA, Oslo and Observatoire Social Europeenne, Bruxelles

(1999), Fleksibilitet og arbeidslivsregulering. Et overblikk over europeiske utviklingstrekk og EUs regime for arbeidslivspolitikk. Innspill til Arbeidslivsutvalget. Fafo-paper 1999:11

(1999), The globalisation challenge: Convergence or divergence of national labour market institutions? Fafo-paper 1999:10

(1998), Norwegian trade unionism between traditionalism and modernisation. Fafo-paper 1998:9

(1998) "Redrawing boundaries of solidarity? ETUC, social dialogue and the Europeanisation of trade unions in the 1990s", in Gabaglio, E. and R. Hoffmann, eds., The ETUC in the Mirror of Industrial Relations Research, Brussels; ETUI (available also in French and German)

(1998) The globalisation Challenge: Convergence or Divergence of National labour Market Institutions? Trial lecture for the dr.philos degree, University of Oslo, Fafo-paper

(1998) "Tyskland: Sosialpartnerskap i oppbrudd?", in Stokke, L.J., ed., Norge, Tyskland og Europa, Oslo; Fafo

(1998) (with T. A. Stokke) "Norway: Revival of Centralised Concertation", in Hyman, R. and A. Ferner, eds.

Books and reports

(2009 with G. Hernes), From Financial Crisis towards a Coherent Agenda for Decent Work and Sustainable Globalization. Background paper for Coherence and Accountability Forum, ILO, Geneva, 11 June 2009. Fafo-report 2009:25

(2008) "Building bridges: Nordic industrial relations in transition" i The Nordic approach to growth and welfare European lessons to be learned? ETUI, Brussels

(2008 with E. Løken and Å.A. Seip), Pathways to Decent Work in a Global Economy. Fafo-report 2008:33

(2008 with L. Eldring), Arbeidsmobilitet fra de nye EU-landene til Norden – utviklingstrekk og konsekvenser. TemaNord 2008:502. English edition: Mobility of labour from new EU states to the Nordic Region

(2007 with T. Fløtten, G. Hernes and J.M. Hippe, eds.) Hamskifte. Den norske modellen i endring. Oslo: Gyldendal Akademisk

(2006 with L. Eldring, J.H. Friberg, T. Kvinge, S. Aslesen and A.M. Ødegård) Grenseløst arbeidsliv? Endringer i norske bedrifters arbeidskraftsstrategier etter EU-utvidelsen. Fafo-report 548

(2006 with L. Eldring) The Nordic labour markets two years after EU enlargement: Mobility, effects and challenges, Nordic Council of Ministers, TemaNord 2006:557, Copenhagen

(2005 with L. Eldring) Arbeids- og tjenestemobilitet etter EU-utvidelsen. Nordiske forskjeller og fellestrekk. TemaNord 2005:566. Copenhagen: Nordic Council of Ministers. English version: The Nordic Labour Market two years after the EU enlargement. Mobility, effects and challenges

(2005 with K. Nergaard), Internasjonalisering og fagorganisering - en undersøkelse av de nordiske fagforbundenes internasjonale arbeid, Stockholm: SALTSA/Arbetslivsinstitutet

(2005 with L. Eldring and A.M. Ødegård), Lavlønnskonkurranse og sosial dumping. Utfordringer for det seriøse arbeidslivet. Fafo-report 485

(2004 with A.M. Ødegård), Ti år med EØS-avtalen. Konsekvenser for norsk arbeidsliv og fagbevegelse. Fafo-report 455

(2003 with F. Engelstad, eds.) National Regimes of Collective Bargaining in Transformation: Nordic trends in a comparative perspective, The Norwegian Power and Democracy Study, Oslo

(2002 with J. Vartiainen) Globalisering og europeisk integrasjon: Utfordringer for lønnsdannsel og kollektivavtaler i de nordiske land; Stockholm: Arbetslivsinstitutet

(2002 with L. Tørres) Globalisation, Work and Labour Standards, Report for the Globalisation project, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Oslo

(2001, ed.) At Your Service? Comparative Perspectives on Employment and Labour Relations in the European Private Sector Services, Brussels/New York/London: PIE-Peter Lang

(1999) An Emerging Island? ETUC, Social Dialogue and the Europeanisation of the trade unions in the 1990s, Brussels: ETUI. (Published also in French and in German, Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot)

(1999 with T.A. Stokke and K. Nergaard), Industrial relations in Norway. Fafo

(1999), Farvel Solidaritet? Internasjonale utfordringer til den norske arbeidslivsmodellen. Det 21. århundrets velferdssamfunn. Fafo-report 271

(1999 with T.A. Stokke), Den norske forhandlingsmodellen. Et historisk tilbakeblikk. Det 21. århundrets velferdssamfunn. Fafo-report 306

Publications 1997–1984