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    • The investment and financing decisions of closely held firms when there is a tax on the equity premium 

      Fjærli, Erik; Raknerud, Arvid (Discussion Papers;594, Working paper, 2009)
      This paper analyzes a tax system where personal share income in excess of the risk-free return on equity (the equity premium) is taxed. The rate of return allowance (RRA) in the Norwegian shareholder income tax system is, ...

    • Investment booms in an oil economy - the Norwegian case 

      Berger, Kjell; Cappelen, Ådne; Svendsen, Ingvild (Discussion Paper;No. 29, Working paper, 1988-02)
      This paper discuss medium term effects on the Norwegian economy of alternative investment profiles in the petroleum sector. Following a brief discussion of the relevance of theories of optimal extraction we present three ...

    • Is it necessary and feasible to estimate the asset value from oilfield level? 

      Liu, Gang; Midttun, Sindre (Notater;2024/8, Working paper, 2024-02)
      This paper aims to assess the necessity and feasibility of applying the ‘Bottom-up’ approach at the oilfield level to estimate the asset value of petroleum resources on the Norwegian continental shelf by following the ...

    • Is Norway immune to Dutch Disease? CGE estimates of sustainable wage growth and de-industrialisation 

      Holmøy, Erling; Heide, Kim Massey (Discussion Papers;No. 413, Working paper, 2005)
      Norway's petroleum wealth has become considerably more liquid and thereby visible to the public since the mid 1990s. In the policy debate transformation of wealth is often confused with ordinary income. Such a misconception ...

    • Is price equal to marginal costs? - An integrated study of price-cost margins and scale economies among Norwegian manufacturing establishments 1975-90 

      Klette, Tor Jakob (Discussion Paper;No. 93, Working paper, 1993-07)
      This paper presents an integrated study of price-cost margins and scale economies. The model is estimated on the basis of a comprehensive data set for individual establishments covering almost the whole Norwegian manufacturing ...

    • Is the distribution of income compatible with s stable distribution? 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Vatne, Bjørn Helge (Discussion Papers;No. 246, Working paper, 1999)
      Mandelbrot (1961) proposed to apply the class of Pareto-Levy distributions - which belong to the Stable distributions - as a framework for modelling income distributions. He also presented theoretic arguments in favor ...

    • Is the marginal cost of public funds equal to one? 

      Holtsmark, Bjart (Discussion Paper;No. 893, Working paper, 2019-01-08)
      In a recent article Bas Jacobs found that the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) is one when taxation gives second best resource allocation. This conclusion is based on a claim that there are certain shortcomings with ...

    • Is the relationship between schooling and disability pension receipt causal? 

      Galloway, Taryn Ann; Brinch, Christian N. (Discussion papers;748, Working paper, 2013-06)
      We examine the potential causal effect of years of schooling on the use of public disability pensions by studying the extension of compulsory schooling introduced in Norway in the 1960s. Simple regressions of disability ...

    • Is there a business cycle component in Norwegian macroeconomic quarterly time series? 

      Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion papers;140, Working paper, 1995-01)
      Some main Norwegian quarterly macroeconomic time series are decomposed into unobserved components within the framework of structural time series models using UCARIMA models. In the most general case we allow for a stationary ...

    • Is there a NAIRU in Norway? 

      Stølen, Nils Martin (Discussion Paper;No. 56, Working paper, 1990-12)
      Unemployment in Norway stayed at a rather low level both in the sixties and the seventies. In the same period Norwegian manufacturing industries lost competitiveness. A lower rate of unemployment than the equilibrium rate, ...

    • Is universal child care leveling the playing field? 

      Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion papers;774, Working paper, 2014-03)
      We assess the case for universal child care programs in the context of a Norwegian reform which led to a large-scale expansion of subsidized child care. We use non-linear difference-in-differences methods to estimate the ...

    • It pays to be green - a premature conclusion? 

      Telle, Kjetil; Aslaksen, Iulie; Synnestvedt, Terje (Discussion Papers;No. 394, Working paper, 2004)
      It has been claimed that good environmental performance can improve firms’ economic performance. However, because of e.g. data limitations, the methods applied in most previous quantitative empirical studies of the ...

    • Jakten på den moderne arbeider 

      Rønning, Elisabeth (Journal article, 2002)
      Den moderne arbeider finnes, men vi finner ikke mange av dem. Jakten på det nye i arbeidslivet viser at det omfattes av få og at mye faktisk ikke er så nytt. Vi har fortsatt et arbeidsliv preget av faste og strukturerte former.

    • Jentene er mest hjemme : barn og unges tidsbruk 

      Vaage, Odd Frank (Journal article, 2002-10)
      Barn er hjemme 15 timer per dag og jentene er mer hjemme enn guttene. De eldre tenåringene legger seg naturlig nok betydelig seinere enn 9-12-åringene. Til gjengjeld står de opp tilsvarende seinere. En betydelig del av ...

    • : Jenter og gutter bruker tiden forskjellig : barn og unges tidsbruk 

      Vaage, Odd Frank (Journal article, 2002-10)
      Hovedaktiviteten til både barn og unge er skolegang. Svært få barn har inntektsgivende arbeid i vanlig betydning, men en stor del utfører oppgaver hjemme som de får betalt for. Både blant barn og unge er det jentene som i ...

    • Jenter og realfag i videregående opplæring 

      Bjørkeng, Birgit (Rapporter;2011/3, Report, 2011-01-01)
      Rapporten består av enkle analyser av elevmassen på de ulike realfagene i videregående opplæring, analyser av deres karakterer, og kartlegging av deres tidligere skoleprestasjoner. Denne rapporten er finansiert av ...

    • Job creation, heterogeneous workers and technical change : matched worker/plant data : evidence from Norway 

      Salvanes, Kjell G.; Førre, Svein Erik (Discussion Papers;No. 304, Working paper, 2001)
      Abstract: Using matched worker/plant level data for Norway, theories explaining the change in skill composition are assessed using direct evidence on the job creation and destruction for high, medium and low skilled ...

    • Job creation, job destruction and plant turnover in Norwegian manufacturing 

      Klette, Tor Jakob; Mathiassen, Astrid (Discussion papers;136, Working paper, 1995-02)
      The labour market in Norway, as in other Scandinavian countries, is often claimed to be overregulated and incapable of adjustment to changes in job opportunities. The results presented in this paper suggest to the contrary ...

    • Job displacement and crime: Evidence from Norwegian register data 

      Rege, Mari; Skarðhamar, Torbjørn; Telle, Kjetil; Votruba, Mark (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019-09)
      We estimate the job displacement effect on criminal behavior for young adult Norwegian men separated from their plant of employment during a mass layoff. Displaced workers experience a 20 percent increase in criminal charge ...

    • Job durations and the job search model : a two-country, multi-sample analysis 

      Bagger, Jesper; Henningsen, Morten S. (Discussion Papers;No. 553, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: This paper assesses whether a parsimonious partial equilibrium job search model with on-the-job search can reproduce observed job durations and transitions to other jobs and to nonemployment. We allow for ...