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Unemployment insurance in welfare states: soft constraints and mild sanctions

Røed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - 2007

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI … on unconditional UI entitlements, and high sanction probabilities - deliver substantially shorter unemployment spells … introduction of a soft constraint appears particularly effective; our results show that the expected unemployment duration falls by …

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Unemployment insurance and entrepreneurship

Røed, Knut; Baumgarten Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik - 2013

Based on administrative registers from Norway, we examine how unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market … programs (ALMP) affect the transition rates from unemployment to regular employment and entrepreneurship. We find that the …

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Egalitarianism under Pressure: Toward Lower Economic Mobility in the Knowledge Economy?

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2017

Based on complete population data, with the exact same definitions of family class background and economic outcomes for a large number of birth cohorts, we examine post‐war trends in intergenerational economic mobility in Norway. Despite only mild fluctuations in standard rank‐based summary...

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Immigration and Social Mobility

Hoen, Maria F.; Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2018

Using Norwegian administrative data, we examine how exposure to immigration over the past decades has affected natives' relative prime age labor market outcomes by social class background. Social class is established on the basis of parents' earnings rank. By exploiting variation in immigration...

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Trends in Assortative Mating and Offspring Outcomes

Bratsberg, Bernt; Markussen, Simen; Raaum, Oddbjørn; … - 2018

Fertility patterns and assortative mating help shape the level and the distribution of offspring outcomes. Increased assortative mating among the less educated has been reported across Western nations, suggesting that inequality in parental resources may be on the rise. In times of rising...

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Overeducation and Economic Mobility

Markussen, Simen; Nareklishvili, Maria; Røed, Knut - 2024

We assess the hypothesis that declining intergenerational economic mobility in Norway is attributable to a rising signaling value of education accompanied by more overeducation particularly among upperclass offspring. We identify five empirical facts that together point in this direction: •...

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The Rising Influence of Family Background on Early School Performance

Markussen, Simen; Røed, Knut - 2023

We use administrative data from Norway to examine recent trends in the association between parents' prime age earnings rank and offspring's educational performance rank by age 15/16. We show that the intergenerational correlation between these two ranks has increased over the past decades, and...

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American Exceptionalism in a New Light: A Comparison of Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in the Nordic Countries, the United Kingdom and the United States

Jäntti, Markus; Bratsberg, Bernt; Røed, Knut; Raaum, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. We examine earnings mobility among pairs of fathers and sons as well as fathers and daughters...

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Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

Bratsberg, Bernt; Røed, Knut; Eriksson, Tor; Naylor, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings mobility in the Nordic countries is typically greater than in the US and in the UK, but find...

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Disability in the welfare state: An unemployment problem in disguise?

Bratsberg, Bernt; Fevang, Elisabeth; Røed, Knut - 2010

Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls … outnumber registered unemployment by four to one. Based on administrative register data matched with firms' financial statements … percent of all new disability insurance claims. We conclude that unemployment and disability insurance are close substitutes. …

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