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 propen-sity declines by around 1 percentage point among sons and 2 percentage points among daughters during the years...

This paper presents a model of informal care to parents. We assume that the child participates in the labour market and gains in utility from consumption and leisure. In addition it has altruistic motivation to give informal care to its elderly parent. We show how the labour income, labour...

In this report the authors show that recent attempts to reorganise and cut costs in the Norwegian health care and social services sectors have had the unintended side effects of raising the level of sickness absence and disability among the employees, and that these effects have persisted...

Rapporten omhandler langtidssykefravær blant sykepleiere og hjelpepleiere som jobber på sykehjem, sykehus, psykiatriske institusjoner og i hjemmetjenesten. Data fra årene 1993 til 2000 viser at hjelpepleiere er betydelig mer utsatt for sykefravær enn sykepleierne. Blant sykepleierne skiller...