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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...
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The relationship between earnings and first birth probability among Norwegian men and women 1994-2008
Kaldager, Rannveig V. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
I analyze whether the correlation between yearly earnings and the first birth probabilities changed in the period 1994 … that the correlation between earnings and fertility has become more positive over time for women but is virtually unchanged … cost of fathering increases, there is no evidence of a weaker correlation between earnings and first birth probability for …
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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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Entry into work following childbirth among mothers in Norway. Recent trends and variation
Rønsen, Marit; Kitterød, Ragni Hege - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
Universal parental leaves with job protection and earnings compensation increase women’s attachment to the labour …
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The family – a barrier or motivation for female entrepreneurship?
Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in Norway than in most other industrialised societies. In spite of a growing literature, the reasons for this pattern are still not well understood. In this paper I explore an area...
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Why are there so few female entrepreneurs? An examination of gender differences in entrepreneurship using Norwegian registry data
Raknerud, Arvid; Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
Women make up almost 50 percent of the employed population in Norway, but only about 25 percent of the entrepreneurs. Using registry data on the whole population we address gender differences in the propensity to become an entrepreneur. We do so by analysing transition from ordinary wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079245
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Diversity of human capital attributes and diversity of remunerating systems
Suleman, Fatima; Paul, Jean-Jacques - HAL - 2008
using a list of thirty skills. Complementary models are used in this research, relating to earnings and the distribution of … dimensions show that traditional human capital variables are important determinants for earnings, whereas competences explain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793127
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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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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