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5 mar 2024 · Key features of the Norwegian welfare system include: a large public sector and a goal of ‘full employment’, a high labour market rate for women, universal rights, a residual system of social assistance, and a strong element of redistribution.
19 sie 2020 · The development of a Norwegian welfare state was part of broader international commitments to meet the need for social security in a modern society – with roots dating back to the late nineteenth century.
2 dni temu · Norway - Healthcare, Welfare, Quality: Compulsory membership in a national health-insurance system guarantees all Norwegians free medical care in hospitals, compensation for doctors’ fees, and free medicine, as well as an allowance to compensate for lost wages.
NAV is the Norwegian abbreviation for the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. Read about what NAV is, how we are organised and how we carry out our social tasks.
4 mar 2021 · In this study, I turn to contemporary contexts and concepts related to the welfare state and the welfare society in four Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden. The aim is to produce overview snapshots of the typical welfare state notions (use and meaning contexts) that meet the Nordic media consumer.
Norway generally ranks high in many international indexes that measure welfare and development, e.g. the Human Development Index (HDI). In the SDG Index, Norway is currently ranked at number 6.
20 gru 2021 · In Norway, immigrants receive higher levels of social assistance than natives. How can we explain this difference? After controlling for differences in take-up rates through a two-step Heckman procedure, we attempt to answer this question by exploiting rich data from administrative registers.
