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 we evaluate the effectiveness of labour market training programmes in raising participants employment rates. Detailed pre-training and post-training information on background variables, earnings and employment are used to estimate the training effect.

We formulate a simple static equilibrium model for the electricity market taking account of both Green certificated and CO2-emission permits. The objective is to investigate the relationship between these markets under the existence of upper and lower price-bounds on the Green certificates, both...

In this paper, we study the effects of introducing endogenous costs in a Tullock model of rent-seeking. We show that unions can be efficiency improving, and that the firms' level of effort depends more critically upon the number of firms participating in the contests when unions are present. We...

The main objects below are transferable-utility games in which each agent faces an optimization problem, briefly called production planning, constrained by his resource endowment. Coalitions can pool members's resources. Such production games are here extended to accomodate uncertainty about...

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...

In non-cooperative models of the family, improved productivity in contribution to a family good typically implies that, in equilibrium, one contributes more to the public good, while one's spouse contributes less. Thus, improves contribution productivity has a negative strategic effect on one's...

In non-cooperative family models, being good at contributing to family public good like household production may reduce one's utility, since it tends to crowd out contributions from one's spouse. Similar effects also arise in cooperative models with non-cooperative threat point: improved...

A multinational enterprise is subject to taxation by two jurisdictions who compete to capture its rents, while being aware that the firm also has investment options outside these jurisdictions. The firm has private informatio about its efficiency. We show that a higher outside option for the...

In this paper, we attempt to develop an intertemporal model of rural-to-urban migration in the context of a poor rural economy. With a peasant household as the decision making unit we explore how rural-to-urban migration may be adopted as a strategy mto cope with the income risks arising from...