The performance of local tax offices of Norway is studied over a three-year period using Data Envelopment Efficiency …

. Our context is Norway's post-secondary education system where a centralized admission process covers almost all …

One element of the Norwegian disability pension system makes the extent to which pension responds to changes in income … in the last three years before disablement vary over different income profiles. This special feature is explored in order … to identify an individual specific pension incentive for income adjustment. If disability is foreseen, this feature …

self against the income loss of a bad event, the bad event is more likely to happen. Comparing register data from disabled … and non-disabled individuals shows that being disabled increases income in the last year before the time of disablement …. Further, more generous pension systems increase pre-disablement income even more. …

There are currently about 300,000 individuals receiving disability pension in Norway. A key question regarding the … disability pensioners. Further, I show that the ratio of disability pension to labor income vary with different definitions of … the pension and income level. …

unearned income. We use lottery winnings to obtain variation in unearned income and tax reforms to obtain variation in the net … Norwegian income tax schedule, we are able to point identify uncompensated and compensated behavioral responses to income taxes … and therefore to calculate efficiency losses and optimal income tax rates (for given welfare weights). …

This paper studies the relationship between retirement and mortality, using a unique administrative data set covering … the full population of Norway. We make use of a series of retirement policy changes in Norway, which reduced the … instrumental variables estimation we find that retirement age has no effect on mortality. -- Retirement age ; Mortality …

common sites and cancer mortality into a genetic, shared environment and individual (unshared environmental) component … relatively more of the variation in cancer at most common cancer sites (but lung and skin cancer) and cancer mortality. The vast … majority of the variation in cancer and cancer mortality, however, is explained by individual (unshared environmental) factors. …