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The Gender Wage Gap: An Inter-Industry Approach.

Longva, P.; Strom, S. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1996

Despite some reductions in the male-female pay gap in the post-war period, gender differentials seem to persist in all industrial countries. This is also the case in the Scandinavian countries where the wage dispersion hase been compressed as a consequence of a "solidaric wage policy".

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LANDOWNERSHIP, MALNUTRITION AND URBAN-RURAL WAGE GAPS

OVE MOENE, K. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1988

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Unemployment, Labour Market Programmes and Wages in Norway.

Raaum, O.; Wulfsberg, F. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1995

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Wage and Employment Effects of Payroll Taxes and Investment Subsidies.

Johansen, F.; Klette, T.J. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1998

Using a set of panel data for manufacturing plants we study how payrll taxes and investment subsidies affect wages and … empirical analysis finds that a large part of changes in payroll taxes is shifted over to wages. This result suggests that …

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Bargaining Versus Efficiency Wages in a Dynamic Labor Market: A Synthesis

Strand, J. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1998

We construct a model integrating the efficiency wage model of Shapiro-Stiglitz (1984) with the matching-bargaining models of Diamond, Mortensen and Pissarides (DMP). Firms and workers form pairwise matches, workers may shirk on the job, and the wage is set in an asymmetric Nash bargain over the...

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Wage Bargaining and Turnover Costs with Heterogeneous Labour: The No-screening Case

Strand, J. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1998

We study the effects of mobility costs in a model of wage bargaining between workers and firms, where there is instantaneous matching, free firm entry, heterogeneous labour, and workers' individual productivities are discovered by firms only after being hired. We derive the employment level and...

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Pay Inequality and Job Creation.

Moene, K.O.; Walelrstein, M. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1996

We investigate the effects of wage compression through centralized collective bargaining when growth depends on the continual reallocation of labor from older, less productive plants to new, more productive plants.

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Strategic Bargaining in Search Equilibrium.

Moen, E.R. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1996

We introduce strategic wage bargaining in a search equilibrium model. We find that wages respond more an employment and … output less to aggreagte shoks than when wages are determined by conventional Nash bargaining. Expectations about the stocks … increase the volatility of wages even more. …

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Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970 - 2002

Bojer, Hilde - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2005

In the period from 1970 to 2002, Norwegian women moved out of the home and into the paid labour market. The paper … investigates the e®ect of this social change on women's economic position and on individual income in-equality. It argues that the … Statistics Norway in the period, giving reliable data on income for samples varying from 6000 to 30 000 women and men. Women …

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The Importance of Women's Education and Status for Fertility in Tanzania in the 1990s.

Kravdal, O. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1998

The analysis is based on individual 1996 TDHS data combined with aggregate data from the 1988 census and the 1991/1992 TDHS. When various sources of spuriousness are taken into account, education is found to reduce fertility much less than suggested by univariate tabulations of total fertility rate.

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