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Mobilising female labour market reserves: What promotes women’s transitions from part-time to full-time work?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit; AneSeierstad - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
Considering the high female part-time rates in Norway, one may envisage a sizeable additional labour supply if more part-time working women would switch to full time. In view of an ageing population and increased demand for labour in the future, we investigate this issue by studying married and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009194154
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Maternal Employment in Norway A parity-specific analysis of the return to full-time and part-time work after birth
Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995
reductions in future earnings due to a career break) and her reservation wage. As predicted, a higher market wage and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980934
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Housewives in a dual-earner society. Who is a housewife in contemporary Norway?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
The number of housewives has declined significantly in most Western countries, but there is now a renewed interest in the homemaker role in the media and public discourse. Utilising representative survey data from 2007 we examine the prevalence and characteristics of the housewife role in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189027
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The Gender Earnings Gap inside a Russian Firm: First Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002 ; Updated Version
Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Zaiceva, Anzelika - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008
determinants of the gender earnings gap in an internal labor market during late transition. The gap is sizable but declines … strongly over the entire period. Gender earnings differentials are largest for production workers who constitute the largest … by observable characteristics at the mean and across the wage distribution. Our analysis also reveals that the earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005071134
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Working hours in dual-earner couples: Does one partner work less when the other works more?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit; Seierstad, Ane - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
In spite of increased labour market participation in recent decades, women in Norway still have high part-time rates and seldom work more than their partners. Given that an aging population implies a projected large labour demand in many Western countries, it is important to explore potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493367
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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe
Kaiser, Lutz C. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963778
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Underemployment in a gender segregated labour market
Kjeldstad, Randi; Nymoen, Erik H. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2010
This article analyses factors behind underemployment in Norway and has a focus on gender. The analysis, based on Labour Force Survey data, shows that economic fluctuations during the latest one and a half decade bring about changing underemployment levels of both women and men. The Norwegian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472741
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Analysis of the discouraged worker phenomenon. Evidence from micro data
Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2006
In this paper we analyze labor force participation with particular reference to the discouraged worker effect. The theoretical point of departure is a simple model where the worker evaluates the expected utility of searching for work, and decides to participate in the labor market if the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980829
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Maternal Employment and Happiness: The Effect of Non-Participation and Part-Time Employment on Mothers' Life Satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
individual fixed effects, I find that both the pecuniary effects (foregone earnings) and the non-pecuniary effects (psychological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005069045
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Labor force participation and the discouraged worker effect
Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2010
This paper analyzes labor force participation with particular reference to the discouraged worker effect. Discouraged workers are those who do not search for work because they view their chances of finding a suitable job as too low. The theoretical point of departure is a search model where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763788