The divorce rate in Norway has increased sharply since the 1960s, and today Norway ranks among the countries with the highest divorce rates in Europe. In this paper we estimate determinants of marital instabilities.

The paper discusses how this relatively strong price response should be interpreted in the context of other econometric analysis with no explicit appliance dependence. Finally, the significance of the many household charcteristics at both stages of the model signals a high degree of...

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...

In this paper, the authors study exit routes out of unemployment for older Norwegian unemployed in the period 1989 to 1993. Based on a proportional hazard model with a flexible baseline they estimate the competing risks of exiting to employment, helath related social benefits, and out of the...

This study analyses early retirement pathways for Norwegian male and female workers, applying a multinomial logit model to a data set covering more than 10500 employees, ages 56-61, in 1989. The aim is to analyse the transistion to different destinations, i.e. disability pension, unemployement...

A unified method to detect and handle innovational and additive outliers, and permanent and transient level changes has been presented by R.S. Tsay, N.S. Balke has found that the presence of level changes may lead to misidentification and loss of test-power, and suggests augmenting Tsay's...