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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...

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Working hours in dual-earner couples: Does one partner work less when the other works more?

Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit; Seierstad, Ane - 2011

In spite of increased labour market participation in recent decades, women in Norway still have high part-time rates and seldom work more than their partners. Given that an aging population implies a projected large labour demand in many Western countries, it is important to explore potential...

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Has Growth in Supply of Educated Persons Been Important for the Composition of Employment?

Stølen, Nils Martin; Åvitsland, Turid - 1997

important factors for the change in the composition of employment, indicating lack of persons with these kinds of education. In …

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Can the child penalty be reduced? Evaluating multiple policy interventions

Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Nix, Emily - 2022

Children cause large earnings drops for mothers but not fathers, a stylized fact known as the "child penalty" that explains a substantial portion of remaining gender income gaps. Can policy reduce the child penalty? We first document how changes in the child penalty over a long time horizon in...

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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...

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Reconciling estimates of the long-term earnings effect of fertility

Bensnes, Simon; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Leuven, Edwin - 2023

This paper presents novel methodological and empirical contributions to the child penalty literature. We propose a new estimator that combines elements from standard event study and instrumental variable estimators and demonstrate their relatedness. Our analysis shows that all three approaches...

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Health Status After Cancer. Does It Matter Which Hospital You Belong To?

Fiva, Jon H.; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte - 2009

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 …

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The intergenerational transfer of the employment gender gap

Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; … - 2014

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 …

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The Achilles Heel of the Dual Income Tax. The Norwegian Case

Alstadsæter, Annette - 2006

The dual income tax provides the self-employed individual with large incentives to participate in tax minimizing income shifting. The present paper analyses the income shifting incentives under the Norwegian split model in the presence of technology risk, and it concludes that the widely held...

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Estimating the additionality of R&D subsidies using proposal evaluation data to control for firms' R&D intentions

Henningsen, Morten S.; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Møen, Jarle - 2012

Empirical examination of whether R&D subsidies to private firms crowd out private investments has been hampered by problems related to selection. A particular worry is that research intentions and the quality of current research ideas may be correlated with the likelihood of applying for and...

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