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Are all of the good men fathers? The effect of having children on earnings.

Kunze, Astrid - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men’s earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be modeled in various ways, as well as observing earnings growth before and … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

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Is teenage motherhood contagious? Evidence from a Natural Experiment.

Monstad, Karin; Propper, Carol; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2011

There is relatively little research on peer effects in teenage motherhood despite the fact that peer effects, and in particular social interaction within the family, are likely to be important. We estimate the impact of an elder sister’s teenage fertility on the teenage childbearing of their...

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Education and family background: Mechanisms and policies.

Björklund, Anders; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2010

In every society for which we have data, people’s educational achievement is positively correlated with their parents’ education or with other indicators of their parents’socioeconomic status. This topic is central in social science, and there is no doubt that research has intensified...

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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth.

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2012

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of women who are well-established in the labour market. We estimate a flexible …fixed-effects wage regression model extended by post-childbirth…fixed effects. We use register data on West Germany and exploit the...

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Life Cycle Earnings, Education Premiums and Internal Rates of Return.

Bhuller, Manudeep; Mogstad, Magne; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014

What do the education premiums look like over the life cycle? What is the impact of schooling on lifetime earnings? How … earnings over the life cycle, following individuals over their working lifespan. To account for endogeneity of schooling, we … of no earnings while in school and exogenous post-schooling employment. …

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Climate Variability and International Migration: an empirical analysis.

Coniglio, Nicola D.; Pesce, Giovanni - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014

Is international migration an adaptation strategy to sudden or gradual climatic shocks? In this paper we investigate the direct and the indirect role of climatic shocks in developing countries as a determinant of out-migration flows toward rich OECD countries in the period 1990-2001. Contrarily...

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Agglomeration, tax competition and local public goods supply.

Norman, Eva Benedicte Danielsen; Norman, Victor Danielsen - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2010

In this paper we develop a framework for studying tax competition and local public goods supply in a setting where real and fiscal externalities interact with local democracy. We use the framework (a) to analyse if there is any reason to believe that local autonomy generally will give a tax race...

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Tax policy and fair inequality.

Cappelen, Alexander W.; Tungodden, Bertil - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2012

The standard economic approach to tax policy has to a large extent relied on welfarist theories of justice, in particular the utilitarian view that the government should try to maximize the sum of individual welfare. This welfarist framework has proved a productive point of departure for much...

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Using the Helmert-transformation to reduce dimensionality in a mixed model: Application to a wage equation with worker and firm heterogeneity.

Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Skjerpen, Terje - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2011

A model for matched data with two types of unobserved heterogeneity is considered — one related to the observation unit, the other to units to which the observation units are matched. One or both of the unobserved components are assumed to be random. This mixed model allows identi…cation of...

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Made in China, sold in Norway: Local labor market effects of an import shock.

Balsvik, Ragnhild; Jensen, Sissel; Salvanes, Kjell G. - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014

We analyze whether regional labor markets are affected by exposure to import competition from China. We find negative employment effects for low-skilled workers, and observe that low-skilled workers tend to be pushed into unemployment or leave the labor force altogether. We find no evidence of...

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