Part-time or Full-time Employment : Choices and Constraints

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Part-time or Full-time Employment: Choices and Constraints

This article explores nurses’ working-hour practices in Norwegian nursing homes through a career path. Although the nursing profession is dominated by women and is a typical part-time occupation, this study found variations in working-hour patterns among nurses. These variations suggest that nurses not only have different career patterns but also that the working hours of individual nurses vary throughout a career. The analysis highlights different contextual factors that influence nurses’ working hours during their careers. The findings are based on data collected through in-depth interviews with 22 nurses over the age of 56. As a result, we conclude that the working-hour patterns of nurses are constructed out of interactions among the welfare state, the labor market, and family practices, meaning that workinghour patterns can be influenced and changed

Disability and Poverty

This book is about being disabled and being poor and the social, cultural and political processes that link these two aspects of living in what has been characterised as a “vicious circle” (Yeo & Moore 2003). It is also about the strengths that people show when living with disability and being poor. How they try to overcome their problems and making the best out of what little they have. This book will appeal to academics, postgraduates and policymakers in disability studies, development studies, poverty and social exclusion

Keeping calm on a busy day—an interpersonal skill home care patients desire in health workers: hermeneutical phenomenological method

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Elderly people at village level in Botswana

The paper presents demographic and social data from an in-depth study of the situation of elderly people in a village in Botswana. Botswana is undergoing rapid economic and social change and this change also affects the elderly part of the population. While younger people  migrate to urban areas, the elderly are to a large extent left behind in the villages, often with responsibility for caring tor small grandchildren. We found that the majority of elderly people in the study village are women. The educational level of the elderly people of both sexes is low but the majority have undergone the traditional initiation schools, Bojale and Bogwera. All households are influenced by modernization in that they need cash for survival. They depend to a large extent on the support of their grandchildren for survival, a support which is not always given

Norwegian Hydropower Producers’ Response to the 2021 Energy Price Shock: An Analysis of the Development in the Water Values

Norwegian electricity prices surged during the last half of 2021. A significant increase in the European gas prices and the prices of carbon allowances, low inflow to the reservoirs in southern Norway, and increased demand due to the post-pandemic rebound of economic activity were central drivers for the increase in the electricity price. Soaring prices in thermal energy sources and diminishing water levels in the reservoir have shown how volatile the electricity price can be in a power system that predominantly relies on hydropower. Consequently, understanding how these price determinants influenced the water values of the Norwegian hydropower producers in 2021, will be an important factor to ensure the energy security in the future. This paper analyses the development of the water values of 17 Norwegian hydropower plants in price areas NO2 and NO5 in the last half of 2021. Through a double censored regression model, the study finds that 71,4 % of the hydropower plants with reliable results had an increasing trend in the water values, while 21,4 % had a decreasing trend. Furthermore, the study analyses how the hydropower producers reacted to the development in the Norwegian and European energy markets. The study finds that 78,6 % of the hydropower producers increased the water values when the gas price increased, and 71,4 % reduced their water values when the European gas storage levels increased. If the carbon spot price increased, 27 % of the hydropower producers increase the water values, while 84,6 % of the producers lowered the water values when the reservoir filling increased. By applying the rolling window approach to the double censored regression model, we identified potential responses to the market signals for six of the hydropower plants in the study. The responses suggested that the hydropower producers changed their expectations with respect to the market signal, and thus revised their models. The study found that five producers responded in late August and September, while one plant may have had a reaction in November. The evidence suggests that 100 % of the responses indicated a reaction to the European gas storage filling. It was found that 71 % of the responses were associated with the degree of reservoir filling of the hydropower plant. 43 % of the responses could indicate a reaction to the carbon spot price, and 71 % of the responses were associated with a change in expectations of the gas price. However, there was a great deal of uncertainty related to the results from the rolling window analysis, and the evidence should be viewed with caution

Patient influence in home-based reablement for older persons : qualitative research

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Patient involvement during a pathway of home-based reablement for older persons : A longitudinal single-case study

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Nurses' professional discretion in the purchaser-provider split in home care in Norway

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