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The relationship between earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1994-2008
Discussion Papers no. 787
I analyse whether the correlation between yearly earnings and the first birth probabilities changed in the period 1994-2009 in Norway, applying discrete-time hazard regressions to highly accurate data from population registers.
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GDP to be revised upwards
The GDP for 2011 will be revised upwards by around NOK 40 billion, or 1.5 per cent, when Statistics Norway publishes its revised national accounts on 20 November. Moreover, all years will be subject to an upward revision, varying between 1.5 and 2...
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Labor supply as a discrete choice among latent jobs
Discussion Papers no. 786
This paper discusses aspects of a framework for modeling labor supply where the notion of job choice is fundamental. In this framework, workers are assumed to have preferences over latent job opportunities belonging to worker-specific choice sets ...
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Economic Survey 3-2014
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Upturn in economy on hold
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The fiscal incentive of GHG cap and trade
Discussion Papers no. 785
The theoretical justification for a greenhouse gas (GHG) cap and trade system is that participants will trade emission permits until their marginal costs of abatement equal the equilibrium price of emission permits.
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Women’s wages and fertility revisited
Discussion Papers no. 784
Since the 1960s, Beckers’ New Home Economics has provided a central theoretical framework for studies of fertility behaviour. New Home Economics predict a negative effect of female wages on fertility.
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Output-based rebating of carbon taxes in the neighbor’s backyard
Discussion Papers no. 783
We investigate how carbon taxes combined with output-based rebating (OBR) in an open economy perform in interaction with the carbon policies of a large neighboring trading partner.
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Family welfare cultures
Discussion Papers no. 782
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation.
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Differences in childbearing by time frame of fertility intention: A study using survey and register data from Norway
Discussion Papers no. 781
This paper focuses on the realization of positive fertility intentions with different time frames. The analyses are based on a unique combination of survey data and information from Norwegian administrative registers on childbearing in the years f...
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Economic Survey 2-2014
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Characteristics of parents with shared residence and father sole custody
Discussion Papers no. 780
Shared residence for children has increased considerably in recent years among parents living apart in Norway, while mother sole custody is less common than before and father sole custody is still practiced by a minority.
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Moderate pace in Norwegian economy
Over the last 18 months, the Norwegian economy has experienced a moderate economic downturn, and the relatively modest GDP growth is expected to continue well into 2015. Unemployment has been fairly stable so far this year, but is expected to incr...
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The equilibrium relationship between public and total employment
Discussion Papers no. 779
This paper analyses the general equilibrium relationship between increases in tax financed public employment and total employment, emphasizing one income effect: Reallocating employment from the private to the public sector reduces non-labour inco...
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A comparison of the global warming effects of wood fuels and fossil fuels taking albedo into account
Discussion Papers no. 778
Traditionally, wood fuels, like other bioenergy sources, have been considered carbon neutral because the amount of CO 2 released can be offset by CO 2 sequestration due to the regrowth of the biomass.
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