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A comparison of the labour market integration of immigrants and refugees in Canada and Norway
(Reports;2009/31, Report, 2009)According to the OECD (2008), Canada’s immigrants score among the highest in the industrialised world when it comes to employment rates. Measured by employment rate Canada ranked 3rd (only surpassed by Portugal and ... -
Has growth in supply of educated persons been important for the composition of employment?
(Discussion Papers;No. 187, Working paper, 1997)In the Norwegian fabricated metal industry there has been a shift in demand from unskilled to skilled workers during the period 1972 to 1990, and relative demand for white collar employees has also increased. The paper ... -
Housewives in a dual-earner society. Who is a housewife in contemporary Norway?
(Discussion papers;No. 659, Working paper, 2011)The number of housewives has declined significantly in most Western countries, but there is now a renewed interest in the homemaker role in the media and public discourse. Utilising representative survey data from 2007 ... -
Labour market rigidities and environmental tax reforms : welfare effects of different regimes
(Discussion Papers;No. 242, Working paper, 1998)The working of the labour market is important for the total welfare effects of tax reforms. This paper analyses, by using a computable general equilibrium model for the Norwegian economy, how different assumptions about ... -
Part-time work, underemployment and gender : worker versus job explanations
(Discussion Papers;602, Working paper, 2009)The article analyses part-time work, both so-called voluntary and involuntary, in a gender perspective and discusses under what conditions women and men work part-time. The discussion is based on logistic regression models, ... -
Taxation, unemployment and growth: dynamic welfare effects of "green" policies
(Discussion Papers;No. 183, Working paper, 1996)This paper analyses the effects of so-called "green" tax reforms on a small, open economy producing an imperfect substitute for foreign goods, using an intertemporal general equilibrium model. The labour market is characterised ... -
Urban and regional labour market mobility in Norway
(Sosiale og økonomiske studier;110, Book, 2005-03)Across Europe the competitiveness of urban and regional labour markets becomes an increasingly important task for regional and sector policies. Efficient matching of local demand and supply of labour at different qualification ... -
Working hours in dual-earner couples: Does one partner work less when the other works more?
(Discussion Papers;670, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: In spite of increased labour market participation in recent decades, women in Norway still have high part-time rates and seldom work more than their partners. Given that an aging population implies a projected ...