intergenerational transfer of the gender gap in employment. We explore the extent that family- and community-level characteristics …, measured in childhood, differentially predict employment for adult Norwegian men and women. Drawing on theories pertaining to … that female employment continues to be influenced by the intergenerational transfer of beliefs and expectations about …

Objectives: Previous studies have argued that marriage, parenthood and employment are important factors that lead to … events. Conclusions: While marriage, parenthood and employment are central to life course criminology, the majority of those …

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can be difficult to enumerate in a … satisfactory manner. We would therefore like to ask the question: to what extent does acquiring employment increase a poor …-time employment also has an effect, albeit a small one. Findings with respect to transfers are compatible with certain disincentives …

solely on men. However, as the employment rates of women in Western countries rise and approach those of men, questions about …

Studies on the earnings assimilation of immigrants have traditionally focused exclusively on immigrants in employment … to those in employment may entail a selection bias. In addition, the primary variable of interest in such studies is …

Survival rates are widely used to compare quality of health care. In this paper we introduce post-illness employment as … patients we document substantial differences across Norwegian hospital catchment areas with respect to employment five years …

We explore the relationship between formal employment and recidivism using a dataset that follows every Norwegian … between employment and re-incarceration is accounted for by observable individual characteristics, the substantially lower … hazard for those getting employed indicates a possibility of a considerable benign effect of employment on recidivism. Our …

This paper concerns the effect of employment status on second- and third-birth intensities for Norwegian mothers in the … period 1994-2002. Due to unobserved heterogeneity possibly affecting both the birth and the employment processes we employ a … slightly positive effect of currently being in employment on the second-birth intensity, whereas the third-birth intensity is …

role in the termination of criminal careers. Along with marriage, employment is frequently associated with potential to … studies report negative associations between within-individual changes in employment and offending, the evidence regarding … around the point of job entry. Results show that most offenders had desisted prior to the employment transition, and that …

This paper studies the distributions of literacy skills, education, and employment of immigrants and natives in three … skills, schooling, and employment across countries. For immigrants, the relations differ strongly: whereas literacy skills … form only a weak determinant of immigrant employment in the North American labor markets, in Norway literacy is much more …