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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies
Thoresen, Thor Olav - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995
substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well …
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Crime and the transition to marriage. The roles of gender and partner’s criminal involvement
Monsbakken, Christian Weisæth; Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde; … - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
Several previous studies have argued that marriage leads to a decline in criminal propensity. Most of these studies have focused on men and have given little attention to the characteristics of their partner and events related to changes in offending. In this article, we use Norwegian registry...
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A Behavioral Two-Sex Marriage Model
Dagsvik, John K.; Flaatten, Ane S.; Brunborg, Helge - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1998
In this paper we discuss a particular marriage model, i.e., a model for the number of marriages for each age combination as a function of the vectors of the number of single men and women in each age group. The model is based on Dagsvik (1998) where it is demonstrated that a specific matching...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980921
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Characteristics of parents with shared residence and father sole custody. Evidence from Norway 2012
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Lyngstad, Jan - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
Shared residence for children has increased considerably in recent years among parents living apart in Norway, while mother sole custody is less common than before and father sole custody is still practiced by a minority. A similar pattern is observed in many other countries as well. In Norway,...
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Socioeconomic differentials in multi-partner fertility among men
Lappegård, Trude; Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
This paper analyzes male fertility, focusing especially on multi-partner fertility, for cohorts born 1955 to 1984. We find that socioeconomic disadvantaged men have the lowest chance of becoming fathers, and also the lowest likelihood of having more children in stable unions. Multi-partner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009018414
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Differences in Learning and Inequality*
Cappelen, Ådne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2006
between productivity growth and inequality. If this view is correct it poses some challenges for policies that focus on … of factors other than skilled biased technical change in order to explain the diverse picture of changes in inequality … explanations for the varying experience wrt. wage inequality between OECD-countries in recent decades. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980647
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Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817196
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Effects of Family Policy Reforms in Norway. Results from a Joint Labor Supply and Child Care Choice Microsimulation Analysis
Kornstad, Tom; Thoresen, Thor Olav - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2006
Mothers of preschool children represent one part of the population that might be able to increase its labor supply. We discuss effects of family policy changes that encourage the labor supply of these mothers, as child care fee reductions and increased availability of center-based care. Effects...
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Equity versus Efficiency in Public Pension Schemes. Microsimulating the Trade-off
Stensnes, Kyrre - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2007
created by increasing the actuarial component of pensions may come at the cost of increased inequality in pension benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980809
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Rising Inequality of Housing? Evidence from Segmented Housing Price Indices
Larsen, Erling Røed; Sommervoll, Dag Einar - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2003
This article uses the Case-Shiller technique for constructing housing price indices on a Norwegian data set of transactions for the period 1991-2002 consisting of 10 376 pairs of repeated sales. Using a weighted least squares scheme in order to control for heteroskedasticity, we construct a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980564