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Welfare and the Environment Implications of a recent tax reform in Norway
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Welfare Core Survey. Guidelines for design of a core survey for a household survey system
(Notater / Documents;2015/35, Working paper, 2015-09-11)This report builds upon experience gained jointly with development partners in several national statistical offices, mainly in Angola, Malawi, Mozambique and South Sudan over a period of 15 years and demonstrates how to ... -
Welfare effects of emission. Taxes in Norway
(Discussion papers;148, Working paper, 1995-09)The welfare effects of introducing taxes on emissions of carbon dioxide is analysed within an empirical general equilibrium model of the Norwegian economy. A CO2 tax regime where we aim at stabilising the CO, emissions at ... -
Welfare effects of proportional taxation: empirical evidence from Italy, Norway and Sweden
(Discussion Papers;No. 171, Working paper, 1996)This paper employs a particular labor supply model to examine the welfare effects from replacing current tax systems in Italy, Norway and Sweden by proportional taxation on labor income. The results show that there are ... -
Welfare effects of tax policy change when there are choice restrictions on labour supply
(Discussion Paper;No. 959, Working paper, 2021-08)Information about individual choices of heterogeneous agents. Results can for example be used to describe the distributional effects of tax policy change, such as the effects on changes in money metric utility – distributions ... -
Welfare effects of trade liberalisation in distorted economies : a dynamic general equilibrium assessment for Norway
(Discussion Papers;No. 251, Working paper, 1999)A disaggregated intertemporal CGE model is used to simulate the welfare effects in Norway of the recently implemented trade reforms including the WTO agreement, the EEA treaty, the EFTA fishery agreement and an anticipated ... -
Welfare effects of VAT reforms: A general equilibrium analysis
(Discussion Papers;No. 343, Working paper, 2003)Abstract: Indirect taxes such as value added taxes (VAT) generate a substantial part of tax revenue in many countries. This paper analyses welfare effects of different reforms in the Norwegian system of indirect taxation. ... -
What are the options for non-OPEC producing countries?
(Discussion Paper;No. 26, Working paper, 1987)This paper discuss medium- and long term strategies for non-OPEC oil producing countries highly dependent on petroleum revenues. First a picture of the international oil market of the 1990s is outlined. Then we look at ... -
What can we do with the quality-adjusted labor input data? An explanation with examples
(Notater/Documents;2023/23, Working paper, 2023-05)This document, by using examples, aims to demonstrate how the quality-adjusted labor input data can be applied for economic analysis in general, and for growth accounting in particular. For instance, such data can be ... -
What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?
(Discussion Paper;No. 923, Working paper, 2020-03)A major difficulty faced by researchers who want to study the consumption and savings behavior of households is the lack of reliable panel data on household expenditures. One possibility is to use surveys that follow the ... -
What Causes the Child Penalty? Evidence from Same Sex Couples and Policy Reforms
(Discussion Paper;No. 902, Working paper, 2019-03-29)Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male partners experience no such income drops. This “relative child penalty” has been well documented and accounts ... -
What makes full-time employed women satisfied with their working hours?
(Discussion Papers;632, Working paper, 2010)In spite of extended parental leaves, tremendous improvement in day-care availability, and a cultural climate that is supportive of women's full-time work, Norwegian women still have one of the highest female part-time ... -
When can micro properties be used to predict aggregate demand?
(Discussion Papers;No. 452, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Heterogeneity in consumer behaviour creates differences in demand responses, which may create problems with aggregation across consumers. If aggregation problems exist, results from estimation based on aggregate ... -
When is mighty Gazprom good for Russia?
(Discussion Papers;No 526, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: In the late 1990s, several proposals for a structural reform that would bring competition and market prices to the Russian gas industry were intensely debated. Splitting up Russian gas monopolist Gazprom into ... -
When subsidized R&D-firms fail, do they still stimulate growth? Tracing knowledge by following employees across firms
(Discussion Papers;No. 399, Working paper, 2004)Public R&D subsidies aim to target particularly risky R&D and R&D with large externalities. One would expect many such projects to fail from a commercial point of view, but they may still produce knowledge with social ... -
Who and how many can work from home in Norway? - Evidence from task descriptions
(Discussion Paper;No. 935, Working paper, 2020-06)The COVID-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work remotely (work from home) in an effort to increase social distancing. The ability to work fromhome has long been considered a perk, but ... -
Who and how many can work from home? Evidence from task descriptions
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)The Covid-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work from home (WFH) in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. The ability to work from home has long been considered a perk, but we ... -
Who benefited from industrialization? The local effects of hydropower technology adoption
(Discussion Papers;No. 874, Working paper, 2018-05-02)This paper studies the impact of the construction of hydropower facilities on labor market outcomes in Norway at the turn of the twentieth century (1891-1920). The sudden breakthrough in hydropower technology provides ... -
Who benefited from industrialization? The local effects of hydropower technology adoption in Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)This paper studies the impact of the construction of hydropower facilities on labor market outcomes in Norway at the turn of the twentieth century (1891–1920). The sudden breakthrough in hydropower technology provides a ... -
Who benefits from homework assignments?
(Discussion Papers;No. 566, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: Using Dutch data on pupils in elementary school this paper is the first empirical study that analyzes whether assigning homework has an heterogeneous impact on pupil achievement. Addressing potential biases that ...