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Fair and efficient taxation under partial control : theory and evidence

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2010

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. Such fairness considerations have been introduced in political economy and optimal income tax models with a...

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The sick pay trap

Fevang, Elisabeth; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2011

spell, after which the public insurance system covers the bill. Based on a quasi-natural experiment in Norway, where pay …

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Broadband internet : an information superhighway to sex crime?

Bhuller, Manudeep; Havnes, Tarjei; Leuven, Edwin; … - 2011

Does internet use trigger sex crime? We use unique Norwegian data on crime and internet adoption to shed light on this question. A public program with limited funding rolled out broadband access points in 2000-2008, and provides plausibly exogenous variation in internet use. Our instrumental...

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What is the case for paid maternity leave?

Dahl, Gordon B.; Løken, Katrine V.; Mogstad, Magne; … - 2013

Norway which expanded paid leave from 18 to 35 weeks (without changing the length of job protection). Our first empirical …

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Do entrepreneurs matter?

Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - 2013

In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...

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Risk tolerance and entrepreneurship

Hvide, Hans K.; Panos, Georgios A. - 2013

A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...

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Patterns of integration : low educated people and their jobs in Norway, Italy and Hungary

Köllő, János - 2013

jobs of different complexity contribute to unskilled employment in Norway, Italy and Hungary. In search of how unqualified … relationships. The data suggest that unskilled employment in Norway benefits from synergies between work in skill-intensive jobs … highly complex jobs. In Hungary, insufficient skills (relative to Norway) and an undersized small-firm sector (relative to …

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A kink that makes you sick : the incentive effect of sick pay on absence

Böckerman, Petri; Kanninen, Ohto; Suoniemi, Ilpo - 2014

This paper examines the effect of the replacement rule of the Finnish sickness insurance system on the duration of sickness absence. A pre-determined, piecewise linear policy rule in which the replacement rate is determined by past earnings allows identification of the effect using a regression...

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Leaving poverty behind? : the effects of generous income support paired with activation

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2014

We evaluate a comprehensive activation program in Norway targeted at hard-to-employ social assistance claimants with …

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Are all of the good men fathers? : the effect of having children on earnings

Kunze, Astrid - 2014

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian register data are used for brother and twin pairs who are followed over their life cycle from their first entry into the labour market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be...

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