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Getting disabled workers back to work : how important are economic incentives?

Fevang, Elisabeth; Hardoy, Inés; Røed, Knut - 2013

We investigate the impacts of economic incentives on the duration and outcome of temporary disability insurance (TDI … of TDI benefits significantly affects the transition rate to alternative social insurance programs such as permanent …

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Immigrant responses to social insurance generosity

Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2018

impacts of social insurance benefits on work incentives. Drawing on a benefit formula reform of the temporary disability … insurance program, we identify behavioral employment and earnings responses to changes in benefits, and find that responses are … to more generous benefits. We uncover stronger behavioral responses among natives with characteristics similar to those …

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Television, cognitive ability, and high school completion

Hernæs, Øystein; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2016

We exploit supply-driven heterogeneity in the expansion of cable television across Norwegian municipalities to identify developmental effects of commercial television exposure during childhood. We find that higher exposure to commercial television reduces cognitive ability and high school...

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The rise in absenteeism : disentangling the impacts of cohort, age and time

Biørn, Erik; Gaure, Simen; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2010

We examine the remarkable rise in absenteeism among Norwegian employees since the early 1990's, with particular emphasis on disentangling the roles of cohort, age, and time. Based on a fixed effects model, we show that individual age-adjusted absence propensities have risen even more than...

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The anatomy of absenteeism

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Røgeberg, Ole J.; … - 2009

the exhaustion of sickness insurance benefits. -- Sickness absence ; multivariate hazards ; MMPH ; NPMLE …

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Can compulsory dialogues nudge sick-listed workers back to work?

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut; Schreiner, Ragnhild C. - 2015

We evaluate the impacts of a compulsory dialogue meeting for long-term sick-listed workers in Norway. The meeting is organised by the local social security administration after around six months of absence, and its purpose is to bring together the absentee, the employer, and the family physician...

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Immigrants, labor market performance, and social insurance

Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2014

1970s, we uncover evidence of intergenerational assimilation in education, earnings and fertility. …

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Labour migrant adjustments in the aftermath of the financial crisis

Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2014

fraction of immigrant men claiming unemployment insurance benefits rose from below 2 to 14 per cent. Some of this increase … majority of the labour migrants directly affected by the downturn stayed in Norway and claimed unemployment insurance benefits. …

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Pension reform and labor supply : flexibility vs. prescription

Hernæs, Erik; Markussen, Simen; Piggott, John; Røed, Knut - 2015

responses to alternative pension reform strategies relying on improved work incentives (flexibility) or increased access ages … relative to the percentage change in average work-incentives) is around 0.25. …

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Immigrant labor market integration across admission classes

Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2017

We examine patterns of labor market integration across immigrant groups. The study draws on Norwegian longitudinal administrative data covering labor earnings and social insurance claims over a 25‐year period and presents a comprehensive picture of immigrant‐native employment and social...

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