Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer

Region-specific versus country-specific poverty lines in analysis of poverty

Discussion Papers no. 408

Publisert: 11. februar 2005

Region-specific versus country-specific poverty lines in analysis of poverty

Discussion Papers no. 408

Publisert: 11. februar 2005

The standard practice in most OECD countries is to measure and evaluate poverty on the basis of a poverty line defined as a specific proportion of the median equivalent income within a country. However, this approach disregards regional d...

The elasticity of substitution of superlative price indices

Discussion Papers no. 407

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

Spousal influence on early retirement behavior

Discussion Papers no. 406

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

Labor supply of retiring couples and heterogeneity in household decision-making structure

Discussion Papers no. 404

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

Retirement behavior of working couples in Norway

Discussion Papers no. 405

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

Spousal influence on early retirement behavior

Discussion Papers no. 406

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

In this paper, we use a binary choice panel data model to analyze married individuals.retirement behavior in Norway when a new option, AFP early retirement becomes available. We focus our study on the influence of the spouse.s characteris...

The elasticity of substitution of superlative price indices

Discussion Papers no. 407

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

The paper presents a method for computing the curvature implicit in the use of superlative price indices. It extends the quadratic lemma and allows us to compute the elasticity of substitution of the underlying preferences in the directio...

Retirement behavior of working couples in Norway

Discussion Papers no. 405

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

This paper aims to provide an empirical analysis of the joint retire ment behavior of working couples in Norway. A dynamic programming model is speci.ed and estimated on micro data. The estimation results show that a model, which uses onl...

Labor supply of retiring couples and heterogeneity in household decision-making structure

Discussion Papers no. 404

Publisert: 5. februar 2005

This paper analyzes the labor market participation behavior of retiring couples in Norway. To account for the unobserved heterogeneity in decision-making structure within the household, I formulate a mixed model by assuming there are two ...

Profitability of different instruments in international climate policie

Discussion Papers no. 403

Publisert: 4. februar 2005

Forventningsindikator - konsumprisene

Notater 2005/09

Publisert: 2. februar 2005

Asymptotic distribution theory of empirical rank-dependent measures of inequality

Discussion Papers no. 402

Publisert: 31. januar 2005

Asymptotic distribution theory of empirical rank-dependent measures of inequality

Discussion Papers no. 402

Publisert: 31. januar 2005

A major aim of most income distribution studies is to make comparisons of income inequality across time for a given country and/or compare and rank different countries according to the level of income inequality. However, most of these st...

Sysselsetting og lønn i historisk nasjonalregnskap

Notater 2005/01

Publisert: 14. januar 2005