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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 …

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Do Higher Wages Reflect Higher Productivity? Education, Gender and Experience Premiums in a Matched Plant-Worker Data Set.

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

Do wage differences between workers with high and low levels of education, between males and females and between workers with different levels of experience reflect differences in productivity? We address this set of questions on the basis of a data set with variables for individual workers...

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The Effects of Sick-Leaves on Earnings

Markussen, Simen - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2009

is .06 percent per day of absence. These effects are persistent over time and work mainly through wages not hours. …

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Droughts and Gender Bias in Infant Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa

Flatø, Martin; Kotsadam, Andreas - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2014

Health Surveys with data on rainfall variability and find a substantial gender difference favouring boys following droughts … gender gap following droughts, especially for infants with mothers who are not working. In contrast, there is no gender … the lower fertility preferences of more educated women. In total, the results indicate a large and socially founded gender …

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Contributing to Public Goods as Individuals versus Group Representatives: Evidence of Gender Differences

Hauge, Karen Evelyn; Røgeberg, Ole - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2014

We report evidence from a laboratory experiment comparing contributions in public good games played as individuals to contributions made as group representatives. We find that women alter their behaviour more than men. The change is in an out-group friendly direction: while men’s contributions...

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Who’s watching? The market for prostitution services

Della Giusta, Marina; Tommaso, Di; Laura, Maria; … - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2005

restrictive assumptions regarding the gender, pay, and nature of forgone earning opportunities of prostitutes and clients, and …

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Unemployment and Relative Earnings of Immigrants

Longva, P.; Raaum, O. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1998

The regional unemployment elasticity of annual earnings for Non-OECD immigrants is found to be more than three times larger than for natives, using micro data covering all immigrants in Norway in 1990 and a random sample of natives. The decline in relative earnings of Non-OECD immigrants from...

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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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An Application of Wage Bargaining Models to Norwegian Panel Data.

Wulfsberg, F. - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 1995

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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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