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Has Growth in Supply of Educated Persons Been Important for the Composition of Employment?
Stølen, Nils Martin; Åvitsland, Turid - 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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Underemployment in a gender segregated labour market
Kjeldstad, Randi; Nymoen, Erik H. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968383
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Housewives in a dual-earner society. Who is a housewife in contemporary Norway?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968429
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Gender, institutions, and economic development: Findings and open research and policy issues
Klasen, Stephan - 2016
are guided by formal institutions as well as informal norms and values. As this survey shows, there is great regional … heterogeneity in gender inequality in formal and informal social institutions. The literature on long-term drivers of gender gaps …, political and economic empowerment, access to resources, and social institutions on development outcomes. The paper then shows …
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