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Do business cycle conditions at the time of labour market entry affect future unemployment?

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - 2002

from Norway, we show that these effects are robust with respect to model-specifications and conditioning variables, and …

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Pennies from heaven: Using exogenous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievement

Hægeland, Torbjørn; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell … - 2007

by the location of natural resources in Norway, we examine the effect of school resources on pupil outcomes. We find that …

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The neighbourhood is not what it used to be: Has there been equalisation of opportunity across families and communities in Norway?

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Sørensen, Erik Ø. - 2001

residential location on educational attainment and adult earnings in Norway. Families are more important than neighbourhoods as … Norway are found to be significantly weaker than in the US. Unlike previous studies, we also assess changes over time by … increasing equality of opportunity in Norway. Our results differ from previous US studies, suggesting that the role of families …

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Young and out: An application of a prospects-based concept of social exclusion

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Rogstad, Jon; Røed, Knut; Westlie, Lars - 2005

We develop a forward-looking empirical concept of social exclusion based on the estimated transition probabilities from a random effects multinominal logit-model. Youths are considered socially excluded if they are currently outside school/work and have a low predicted probability of re-entering...

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The effect of programme participation on the transition rate from unemployment to employment

Røed, Knut; Raaum, Oddbjørn - 2003

We use Norwegian register data from 1989 to 2002 to estimate the causal effects of programme participation on the transition rate from unemployment to employment,by means of a dependent risks hazard rate model. The separate roles of causality and unobserved heterogeneity are non-parametrically...

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Earnings assimilation of immigrants in Norway: A reappraisal

Longva, Pål; Raaum, Oddbjørn - 2000

The relative earnings growth for immigrants in Norway is computed using data for all immigrants in Norway, in 1980 and …

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The effect of schooling on earnings: The role of family background stuied by a large sample of Norwegian twins

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Aabø, Tom Erik - 1999

A large representative sample of twins is used to estimate the causal effect of schooling on earnings in Norway, for …

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Business cycles and the impact of labour market programmes

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Torp, Hege; Zhang, Tao - 2002

By comparing mean outcomes for a large number of matched samples of participants and nonparticipants we estimate individual earnings effect of the Norwegian labour market training programme (LMT) targeted at unemployed adults in the years 1991-1996. The average training effect on the trained is...

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Do individual programme effects exceed the costs? Norwegian evidence on long run effects of labour market training

Raaum, Oddbjørn; Torp, Hege; Zhang, Tao - 2002

Individual long run effects of a labour market training programme targeted at unemployed adults are evaluated by comparing mean post-training earnings for matched samples of participants and non-participants. Average training effects on the trained are positive and persistent over the...

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Explaining variations in wage curves: Theory and evidence

Barth, Erling; Bratsberg, Bernt; Naylor, Robin A.; … - 2002

This paper presents both theoretical analysis and econometric evidence for the United States, Great Britain and Norway …

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