Project manager: Thomas Lorentzen (Rokkansenteret/GIV)
Project team member: Espen Dahl (GIV)
Partners: From Finland: STAKES (National Research and Development Centre for
Welfare and Health), by Pasi Moisio and Timo Kauppinen; From Sweden: RAPSE
(Research Group on Activation Policy and Social Exclusion), University of Växjö, by Tapio Salonen
and Anna Angelin.
Funding: NOS-HS
Duration: 2009 – 2012
Project description
The aim of this project is to shed new light on the transition from adolescence to adulthood,
with a focus on the risks of economic and labour market marginalisation, in three Nordic
countries, Finland, Norway and Sweden. The one factor uniting the questions we are
examining in this project is the focus on critical phases in the transition from adolescence,
and how this transition may increase the risk of experiencing different aspects of
marginalisation.
To achieve this, we will utilise nationwide comparable longitudinal
administrative datasets, starting in the early 1990s and ending in the middle of the first
decade of 2000. The project draws on and unites two approaches that are seldom combined:
a longitudinal, prospective design with a comparative approach. This allows us to study the
process of marginalisation, and at the same time systematically contextualise and
compare these between three welfare states and their institutions.