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Distributional benchmarking in tax policy evaluations
Thoresen, Thor O.; Jia, Zhiyang; Lambert, Peter J. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013
Given an objective to exploit cross-sectional micro data to evaluate the distributional effects of tax policies over a time period, the practitioner of public economics will find that the relevant literature offers a wide variety of empirical approaches. For example, studies vary with respect to...
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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
therefore argued that generous family-friendly policies in the Nordic countries have been counterproductive in achieving one of …
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The family – a barrier or motivation for female entrepreneurship?
Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
not well understood. In this paper I explore an area that has been little researched so far, the family and household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678298
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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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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
owner- managed incorporated entrepreneurship. We focus on the impact of the family and household situation and show that … with regard to the impact of family and household characteristics are generally smaller for incorporated entrepreneurship … answer to why there are so few female entrepreneurs in Norway, an important insight from our analyses is that the family and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011079245
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Sufficient Welfare Indicators Allowing Disagreement in Evaluations of Social Welfare
Brekke, Kjell Arne; Lurås, Hilde; Nyborg, Karine - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1994
There is no consensus on how to measure interpersonally comparable, cardinal utility. Despite of this, people repeatedly make welfare evaluations in their everyday lives. However, people do not always agree on such evaluations, and this is one important reason for political disagreements. Thus,...
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Inequality in current and lifetime income
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
Standard theory of intertemporal choice predicts that people smooth out life-cycle changes in income by borrowing and saving, such that their standard of living in any given year depends more on lifetime income than on that year’s income. Yet, contemporary empirical studies of income...
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A theory for ranking distribution functions
Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013
When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
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Labor supply as a discrete choice among latent jobs: Unobserved heterogeneity and identification
Dagsvik, John K.; Jia, Zhiyang - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
This paper discusses aspects of a framework for modeling labor supply where the notion of job choice is fundamental. In this framework, workers are assumed to have preferences over latent job opportunities belonging to worker-specific choice sets from which they choose their preferred job. The...
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The effect of childhood family size on fertility in adulthood. New evidence form IV estimation
Cools, Sara; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015
on male fertility, both by shifting some men into fatherhood and increasing family size. For women, a negative quantum … mediators we show that mothers of girls shift relatively less time from market to family work when an additional child is born …
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