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The effects of motherhood on women's labour force participation are estimated usually for mothers who are co … co-resident mothers in South Africa, not co-resident mothers are significantly more likely to be labour force … participants. The selection on co-residency, which excludes mothers who are labour migrants, therefore overestimates the negative …
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This paper uses same sex sibling composition as a strategy to identify the exogenous effects of childbearing on female labour force participation in South Africa. International studies typically find that sibling sex composition is strong instrument for childbearing, satisfying the two...
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This paper attempts to explain the drastic fall in income experienced by Saami reindeer herders in Northern Norway … reindeer meat, a traditional luxury product in Norway. This paper shows that a review of the literature is supported by …, mainly: cyclical climatic variation in Northern Norway; a system with fixed prices, independent of the variations in supply …
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, open, resource-based economy (Norway). The contributions of the paper are threefold. First, it develops an evolutionary and …
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There are mainly two types of theories explaining banking crisis, emanating from the monetarist school respectively institutional economics. Using an allegory, monetarists are discussing how much water in terms of liquidity that is needed to stop a fire escalating into a disaster, while...
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, Norway and United Kingdom is the main focus of the paper. Using a non-parametric methodology applied to annual data it is …
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Stated preference (SP) surveys have been conducted to value non-timber benefits (NTBs) from forests in Norway, Sweden …
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The impact of quality on the demand facing health care providers has important implications for the industrial … organization of health care markets. In this paper we study the consumers' choice of general practitioner (GP) assuming they are … health heterogeneity in several ways. We apply modeling and estimation procedures involving latent structural variables …
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Whenever citizens want their elected officials to employ funds efficiently, they are in need of information in order to establish accountability. We develop an agency model with imperfect monitoring where newspapers provide voters with this information. The model predicts that an informed...
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performances of private, public and mixed enterprises in Norway is compared through the use of factor analysis method. The …
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