In a large representative sample of young Norwegian workers, we estimate gross transitions to unemployment, education, and other exits in a multinomial logit. In line, with received literature, we find that individuals with high education, experience, and income have significantly lower...

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...

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...