The increasing number of disability pensioners may put a strain on the welfare state. In this paper, we try to assess the effect of financial incentives on disability entrance. A sample of Norwegians on long-term sick leave at the beginning of 1989 is examined as of the end of 1989 and the exit...

Sick leaves may vary over the business cycle due to disciplining effects or changes in labour force composition. The latter hypothesis maintains that sickness may be pro-cyclical due to employment of "marginal" workers with poorer health whrn demand increases.

This paper uses data from a natural experiment to investigate the potential incentive effect of a fixed unemployment insurance period. We compare two large groups of Norwegian unemployed persons who registered as unemployed in 1990 and 1991. The last group was affected by a rule change that in...

The organisation of the paper is as follows. Section II provides a short review of the job search and job-match theory, together with a discussion of previous empirical findings. In Section III, we give a brief description of some institutional features of the Norwegian educational system and...

The purpose of this article is to explain the decrease in the fixed exchange rate regimes we have experienced the last decades. Our econometric approach is duration analysis, and the explanatory variables used are taken from the literature on optimum currency areas. The sample consists of 51...

Establishing causal relationships in social policy evaluation is important, but difficult due to sample selection. To evaluate the performance of estimators designed to handle sample selection bias we analyse data from a Norwegian rehabilitation project with a randomised experimental design. The...

We investigate induced retirement effects of the Norwegian early retirement program "AFP" and emphasize effects caused by relocations of some individuals from disability pension and unemployment to AFP. Our theoretical model predicts that AFP unambiguously induces more early retirement.