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Mobilising female labour market reserves: What promotes women's transitions from part-time to full-time work?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit; Seierstad, Ane - 2011
Considering the high female part-time rates in Norway, one may envisage a sizeable additional labour supply if more part-time working women would switch to full time. In view of an ageing population and increased demand for labour in the future, we investigate this issue by studying married and...
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Entry into work following childbirth among mothers in Norway. Recent trends and variation
Rønsen, Marit; Kitterød, Ragni Hege - 2012
Universal parental leaves with job protection and earnings compensation increase women's attachment to the labour market, but very long leaves may have negative consequences both at the individual and the societal level. Some scholars have therefore argued that generous family-friendly policies...
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Discouraged worker effects and barriers against employment for immigrant and non-immigrant women
Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje - 2016
A phenomenon observed in many labor markets is that the supply of labor appears to depend on business cycles. In other words, workers who are searching for work become "discouraged" under unfavorable business cycle conditions because they believe that their chances of finding an acceptable job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968615
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Search behavior, aggregate rationality and the discouraged worker effect
Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje - 2019
Discouraged workers are those who have given up search due to (perceived) low chances of obtaining work. In this paper we first develop a model for the probability of being in the labor force as a function of the probability of getting an acceptable job offer. This model is based on standard...
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The effect of childhood family size on fertility in adulthood. New evidence form IV estimation
Cools, Sara; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager - 2015
While fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children's experience with larger … sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. Using the sex composition of the two first-born children as … an instrumental variable, we estimate the effect of sibship size on adult fertility. Estimations are done on high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968572
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Untraditional couples in a neo-traditional setting. Which women perform as much paid work as their partner?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit - 2010
An equal division of paid and unpaid work is a central political ambition in Norway. Yet, couples' division of paid work has been less studied than their division of unpaid work. This paper shows that women seldom work more than their partner, but equal sharing is now increasing. Still, about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968377
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What makes full-time employed women satisfied with their working hours?
Rønsen, Marit; Kitterød, Ragni Hege - 2010
In spite of extended parental leaves, tremendous improvement in day-care availability, and a cultural climate that is supportive of women's full-time work, Norwegian women still have one of the highest female part-time rates in Europe. Longer working hours among women would clearly alleviate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968402
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Prevalence and substitution effects in tobacco consumption: A discrete choice analysis of panel data
Wangen, Knut R.; Biørn, Erik - 2001
This paper analyzes tobacco demand within a discrete choice framework. Using binomial and multinomial logit models with random effects, and an unbalanced panel data set of Norwegian households over a twenty year period, we first consider the decisions a) whether to smoke or not, and b) given the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011968082
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The path of labor supply adjustment. Sources of lagged responses to tax-benefit reforms
Jia, Zhiyang; Vattø, Trine E. - 2016
The standard static labor supply model ignores that it takes time for individuals to adjust to a taxbenefit reform. A labor supply decision model is developed that allows for lagged responses in terms of state dependence, stemming from preferences, labor market constraints and adjustment costs....
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Means-testing the Child Benefit
Kornstad, Tom; Thoresen, Thor O. - 1999
Improving the distributional impact of transfers may be costly if it reduces labour supply. In this paper we show how effects of changes in the design of the child benefit programme can be examined by deriving information from behavioural and non-behavioural simulations on micro data. The direct...
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