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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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care cheaper and more easily available for parents. Norway is an interesting case in this respect, since all recent … unpaid work among parents. …
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situation. I study the presence of children and their ages, the role of the partner’s characteristics and the household …’s financial resources. The results show that women are more likely to choose self-employment over wage-work when the children are … small, indicating that children are no barrier to entrepreneurship, at least not when defined as self-employment as in this …
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likely to live in their parents' house and young Norwegians more likely to live independently, alone or in multi … young adulthood: Living with parents, living alone (including in multi-occupant households) and living in a couple, and … included subset of factors in the two countries. Generally, the propensity of young adults to live with parents and not in a …
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mothers, we find that young children in the household still restrain Norwegian women’s mobility to full-time work. On the …
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children are no barrier to female entrepreneurship. This result holds also when we look at the establishment of an incorporated …
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I analyze whether the correlation between yearly earnings and the first birth probabilities changed in the period 1994-2008 in Norway, applying discrete-time hazard regressions to highly accurate data from population registers. The results show that the correlation between earnings and fertility...
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was no linear time trend. In 1980, parents with children in all age groups had a more traditional division of labour than … those with no resident children. In 2010, this was the case only for parents with very young children (0-1 years), and even …The presence of children still tends to reinforce a traditional division of labour in couples in many countries. This …
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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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