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Has Growth in Supply of Educated Persons Been Important for the Composition of Employment?

Stølen, Nils Martin; Åvitsland, Turid - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1997

In the Norwegian fabricated metal industry there has been a shift in demand from unskilled to skilled workers during the period 1972 to 1990, and relative demand for white collar employees has also increased. The paper analyses the factors behind the shift in the composition of these three kinds...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Are technological change and organizational change biased against older workers? Firm-level evidence

Rønningen, Dag - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2007

Recent decades have been characterized by rapid technological change. In the same period, early withdrawal from the labor market has increased markedly. One particular question concerns the effects of technological change and organizational change on the labor market participation of workers of...

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The innovative input mix. Assessing the importance of R&D and ICT investments for firm performance in manufacturing and services

Rybalka, Marina - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015

ICT investment for firm performance in the manufacturing and service industries. Explicitly, I use an extended version of … the CDM model that treats ICT together with R&D as the main inputs into innovation and productivity, and test it on a … of patent applications are used as innovation output measures. I find that ICT investment is strongly associated with all …

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Part-time work, underemployment and gender. Worker versus job explanations

Kjeldstad, Randi; Nymoen, Erik H. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2009

The article analyses part-time work, both so-called voluntary and involuntary, in a gender perspective and discusses under what conditions women and men work part-time. The discussion is based on logistic regression models, including human capital, life-course- and household characteristics and...

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Errors in Variables and Panel Data: The Labour Demand Response to Permanent Changes in Output

Biørn, Erik; Klette, Tor Jakob - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1994

This paper examines panel data modelling with latent variables in analyzing log-linear relations between inputs and output of firms. Our particular focus is on (i) the "increasing returns to scale puzzle" for labour input and (ii) the GMM estimation in the context of errors-in-variables and...

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Job Creation, Heterogeneous Workers and Technical Change: Matched Worker/Plant Data Evidence from Norway

Salvanes, Kjell G.; Førre, Svein Erik - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2001

Using matched worker/plant level data for Norway, theories explaining the change in skill composition are assessed … using direct evidence on the job creation and destruction for high, medium and low skilled workers. Skill based job creation … is analysed in detail for plants in a high-skill service sector and in low- and high-tech manufacturing sectors. Given a …

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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Plant Turnover in Norwegian Manufacturing

Klette, Tor Jakob; Mathiassen, Astrid - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995

The labour market in Norway, as in other Scandinavian countries, is often claimed to be overregulated and incapable of adjustment to changes in job opportunities. The results presented in this paper suggest to the contrary that in terms of job creation and job reallocation between plants, the...

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