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Norway that allows us to precisely measure birth order effects on IQ using both cross-sectional and within-family methods …
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Norway and focuses on one family characteristic: the effect of family size on IQ. Because of the endogeneity of family size …
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Based on Norwegian register data we show that having a lone parent in the terminal phase of life significantly affects the offspring's labor market activity. The employment propensity declines by around 1 percentage point among sons and 2 percentage points among daughters during the years just...
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We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies - in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) - on the duration and outcome of job search and on the quality of a subsequent job. We find that time invested in job search tends to pay off in the form...
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Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls …
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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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We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s …
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Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participation in active labor market programs, duration limitations on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction...
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separately identifying the role of peers. This paper uses data on the population of Norway and idiosyncratic variation in cohort …
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Based on comprehensive administrative register data from Norway, we examine the determinants of sickness absence …
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