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To what is a transition into employment associated with an exit from poverty?

Galloway, Taryn Ann - 2004

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can rarely be enumerated in any sort of … household’s probability of exiting poverty? Register data from the entire resident population of Norway serves as the basis for … transfers have on the probability of exiting poverty,with or without a concurrent change in employment status. Norway with its …

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Organisational change, absenteeism and welfare dependency

Røed, Knut; Fevang, Elisabeth - 2005

We 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 several years after completion...

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Errors in survey based quality evaluation variables in efficiency models of primary care physicians

Kittelsen, Sverre A. C.; Galtung Kjæserud, Guri; … - 2001

Efficiency analyses in the health care sector are often criticised for not incorporating quality variables. The definition of quality of primary health care has many aspects, and it is inevitably also a question of the patients’ perception of the services received. This paper uses variables...

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Efficiency in the provision of municipal nursing- and home-care services: The Norwegian experience

Erlandsen, Espen; Førsund, Finn R. - 1999

The municipalities in Norway are responsible for providing care for their inhabitants in need. The care takes two main forms: institutionalised care in nursing homes and home-based care. Based on cross-section data for 1995 for 471 municipalities the efficiency of the care activity is...

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An egalitarian disease? Socioeconomic status and individual survival of the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918 - 19 in the Norwegian capital of Kristiania

Mamelund, Svenn-Erik - 2004

The Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-19 was one of the most devastating diseases in history, killing perhaps as many as 50-100 million people worldwide. In addition to the high death toll and the high general lethality, the disease had a peculiar feature: the largest increase in death rates...

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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2012

Many developed countries currently consider a move towards a universal child care program. The challenge in assessing the case for universal child care programs is that the evidence base is scarce. We analyze the staged expansion of subsidized, universally accessible child care in Norway. Our...

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Do the rich vote conservative because they are rich?

Lind, Jo Thori - 2006

Political economy models predict that the rich oppose redistribution, and hence vote for conservative parties. Although this seems to fit the data well, I show that this is not true when we control for unobservable characteristics. Using Norwegian survey data, I study to what extent voting is...

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Income inequality and the economic position of women in Norway 1970 - 2002

Bojer, Hilde - 2005

In the period from 1970 to 2002, Norwegian women moved out of the home and into the paid labour market. The paper investigates the e®ect of this social change on women's economic position and on individual income in-equality. It argues that the distribution of individual incomes is of equal...

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