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Marital sorting, household labor supply, and intergenerational earnings mobility across countries
Raaum, Oddbjørn - 2007
We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268289
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When minority labor migrants meet the welfare state
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2007
We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268314
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Performance pay and within-firm wage inequality
Barth, Erling; Bratsberg, Bernt; Hægeland, Torbjørn; … - 2009
This paper examines the impact of performance-related pay on wage differentials within firms. Our theoretical framework predicts that, compared to a fixed pay system, pay schemes based on individual output increase within-firm wage inequality, while group-based bonuses have minor effects on wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269356
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The Neighbourhood Is Not What It Used to Be
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003
important effects of family characteristics and residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway … result to several policy changes in the 1960s aimed at increasing equality of opportunity in Norway. Neighbour correlations … in Norway are found to be significantly lower than in the United States. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271751
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The impact of a primary school reform on educational stratification : a Norwegian study of neighbour and school mate correlations
Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2003
final educational attainment seem to have been very limited in Norway. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271752
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Pennies from heaven? Using exogeneous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievements
Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2008
by the location of natural resources in Norway we examine the effect of school resources on pupil outcomes. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272889
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Pupil Achievement, School Resources and Family Background
Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2005
lower secondary school in Norway. The dataset is rich in performance measures, resource use variables and family background … qualifications, within the variation present in lower secondary school in Norway, do not appear to have significant effects on school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274211
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Brother Correlations in Earnings in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden Compared to the United States
Björklund, Anders; Eriksson, Tor; Jäntti, Markus; … - 2000
between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) on the other. Our base …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276293
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Educating children of immigrants: Closing the gap in Norwegian schools
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2011
and second generation non- OECD immigrants in Norway. We show that children of immigrants, and particularly those born … outside Norway, are much more likely to leave school early than native children. Importantly, this gap shrunk sharply over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282198