Discussion papers

This paper presents a study of the monthly dynamics of social assistance benefit receipt in four European countries: Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden.

The Norwegian productivity puzzle is rooted in three seemingly contradictory “facts”:

The empirical literature studying the sector bias of technical change has only focused on skill-biased technical change.

Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between several unordered alternatives.

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty.

This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty.

Previous studies have argued that marriage, parenthood and employment are important factors that lead to desistance from crime.

Women make up almost 50 percent of the employed population in Norway, but only about 25 percent of the entrepreneurs.

Empirical studies show that the pecuniary returns to an individual's decision to switch from wage employment to entrepreneurship are low.

We study the effects of various environmental regulations on environmental performance measured as emission intensity.

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.

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 from which they choose their preferred job.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 following the complete selected sample

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.

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 income in the form of profits distributed to workers, since there are no profits in public sectors.

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.