The Eastern enlargements of EU in 2004 kick started a new phase in the Norwegian working life. In recent years, we have experienced an unparalleled labour and service mobility to Norway. Whereas in 2004 less than 7000 Eastern Europeans was residing in Norway, this number had increased to almost 160 000 in 2014. In the same period, labour migration from western EU countries was also doubled. In addition, a large number of posted workers and service providers stay for shorter term periods.
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Labour migration has had both positive and negative consequences for the Norwegian working life. Norwegian enterprises have gained increased access to labour; however, this development has also led to problems concerning low wage competition, social dumping and labour market crime. Since 2004, Fafo has conducted a series of studies related to labour and service mobility, and the development within the common European labor market. Key topics of our research projects are changes and developments with regard to:
• Labour migration streams
• Regulatory regimes and minimum wage setting mechanisms - in Norway, the Nordic countries and the EU
• Employers’ labour and recruitment strategies
• Trade unions’ responses
• Informal and illegal activities• Working and living conditions among labour migrants and posted workers
• Measures against social dumping and labour market crime
• Work environment and health and safety implications
• Labour market and social conditions in the sending countries
Researchers
Kristin Alsos and Anne Mette Ødegård
Shifting employer strategies in light of institutional changeJensen, R. S., Bråten, M. & Skollerud, K. H.
Cross-Border Cargo Transport to and From Norway: Who Undertakes It, and at What Cost?Grete Brochmann and Jon Erik Dølvik
The Welfare State and International Migration: The European ChallengeJon Horgen Friberg & Arnfinn H. Midtbøen
The making of immigrant niches in an affluent welfare stateHedda Haakestad & Jon Horgen Friberg
Deskilling revisited: Labour migration, neo-Taylorism and the degradation of craft work in the Norwegian construction industryJon H. Friberg & Arnfinn H. Midtbøen
Ethnicity as skill: immigrant employment hierarchies in Norwegian low-wage labour marketsJon Erik Dølvik
Introduction: Transnational Labour MobilityEngine for Social Convergence or Divergence in Europe?
Line Eldring
Tåler den norske modellen arbeidsinnvandring?Jens Arnholtz & Line Eldring
Varying perceptions of social dumping in similar countriesJ H. Friberg, J. Arnholtz, L. Eldring, N.W. Hansen & F. Thorarins
Nordic labour market institutions and new migrant workersJon Erik Dølvik and Stein Evju
Introduction and OverviewJon Erik Dølvik, Line Eldring and Jelle Visser
Setting Wage Floors in Open MarketsThe Role of the Social Partners in Europe's Multilevel Governance
Jon Erik Dølvik and Anne Mette Ødegård
The Struggle over the Services Directive: The role of the European Parliament and the ETUCAnne Mette Ødegård, Øyvind Berge og Kristin Alsos
A case study of temporary work agencies in the Norwegian construction sector – a growing informal market beyond regulation?Jane Hardy, Line Eldring, Thorsten Schulten
Trade union responses to migrant workers from the 'new Europe'Line Eldring, Ian Fitzgerald & Jens Arnholtz
Post accession migration inconstruction and trade union responses in Denmark, Norway and the UK.Kristin Alsos og Line Eldring
Husarbeid uten grenser?L. Eldring & J.A. Hansen
Fagbevegelsen og arbeidsinnvandring: Strategier og resultater i Norge og DanmarkJon Erik Dølvik and Jelle Visser
Free movement, Equal Treatment and Worker RightsCan the EU solve its trilemma of fundamental principles?
Jon Erik Dølvik og Line Eldring
Etter EU-utvidelsen: Arbeidsmigrasjon gjennom bakdøra skaper nye utfordringer i det norske arbeidsmarkedetKristin Alsos & Anne Mette Ødegård
Improving data collection about posting and information provision on conditions applicable for posted workersJon Erik Dølvik og Line Eldring
Labour migrants from Central and Eastern Europe in the Nordic countriesJon Horgen Friberg, Jon Erik Dølvik og Line Eldring
Arbeidsmigrasjon fra Øst- og Sentral-Europa.TemanotatProgram Velferd, arbeidsliv og migrasjon
Nana Wesley Hansen, Åsmund Arup Seip og Line Eldring
Rekruttering av kompetansearbeidskraft fra tredjeland til Norden: Reguleringer, strategier og realiteter.Øyvind Berge, Anne Britt Djuve og Kristian Rose Tronstad
Rekruttering af udenlandsk arbejdskraft: Indvandreres arbejdsmiljø og tilknytning til arbejdsmarkedet i NorgeJon Erik Dølvik og Line Eldring
Mobility of labour from the new EU states to the Nordic regionJon Erik Dølvik og Line Eldring
Arbeidsmobilitet fra de nye EU-landene til Norden – utviklingstrekk og konsekvenser.Jon Erik Dølvik og Line Eldring
The Nordic Labour Market two years after the EU enlargement.Jon Erik Dølvik og Line Eldring
Det nordiske arbeidsmarked to år etter EU-utvidelsenJon Erik Dølvik og Line Eldring
Arbeids- og tjenestemobilitet etter EU-utvidelsen.Anette Brunovskis, Anne Britt Djuve og Hilde Haualand
Facing a Baltic invation?Mobility of Baltic labour towards the Nordic countries
Line Eldring
NorwayLine Eldring
Posted workers in Norway: Win-win or lose-lose?Kristin Alsos and Line Eldring
Migrant domestic workers – beyond regulation regimes?Line Eldring og Kristin Alsos
Rene hjem, svarte pengerPaulina Trevena & Line Eldring
Polish construction in the wake of EU enlargementJon Erik Dølvik og Line Eldring
EU enlargement two years after: mobility, effects and challenges to the Nordic labour market regimes.
