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While long total work hours (paid plus unpaid work) have usually been framed as a problem for employed women, researchers now ask whether more involved fathering practices imply a double burden for men, too. Based on the Norwegian Time Use Survey 2010, and using three different measures of total...
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The presence of children still tends to reinforce a traditional division of labour in couples in many countries. This paper explores possible changes in the relationship between parenthood and the division of labour in Norway from 1980 to 2010 – a period with reduced gender differences in time...
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We identify the causal effect of lump-sum severance payments on non-employment duration in Norway by exploiting a discontinuity in eligibility at age 50. We find that a severance payment worth 1.2 months' earnings at the median lowers the fraction re-employed after a year by six percentage...
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precautionary saving and a shift toward safer assets in the years leading up to unemployment, and depletion of savings during … unemployment. This suggests that at least some households can foresee and prepare for upcoming unemployment, which indicates that … private savings can complement publicly provided unemployment insurance. …
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A standard model of equilibrium unemployment consists of static equations for real wage ambitions (wage curve) and real … unemployment approaches the NAIRU from any given initial value, inflation will be increasing or decreasing over time. We formalize …'s equations are re-interpretated as attractor relationships. We show that NAIRU unemployment dynamics are sufficient but not …
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cyclical fuctuations are typical for both nominal and real variables, e.g. inflation and unemployment. …
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This paper aims at clarifying the notion "overall distributive effect" of an income component or a policy proposal and moreover discusses various approaches for assessing the distributional impact of the components of total income. We pay particular attention to the problem of evaluating the...
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Empirical estimates of long run effects on residential electricity demand from changes in the electricity price are usually estimated by cross-sectional variation in the current stock of electric household appliances across households at a certain point in time. Here, we use a...
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Increased energy efficiency is often seen as the best way of reducing energy consumption. However, the cost reduction resulting from the efficiency increase can undermine the energy-saving potential of the efficiency measures. In this study, we develop a method for decomposing the behavioral...
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Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor market attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women. The current paper employs rich longitudinal registry data to investigate the intergenerational transfer of the gender gap in employment. We...
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