The purpose of the paper is to provide a discussion of the various approaches for accounting for labour supply responses in microsimulation models. The paper focus attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: ...

Abstract In recent decades, many “Making Work Pay” policies have been implemented in OECD countries. These policies aim at improving the financial incentives for work while maintaining high levels of social protection. ...

Denne artikkelen reiser spørsmålet om hvilke individuelle egenskaper og «tilpasningsstrategier» som karakteriserer innvandrere i inntektsgivende arbeid, og i hvilken grad disse faktorene spiller noen rolle for hvor forankret ...

Det norske systemet for særavgifter skal bidra til å skaffe staten inntekter og korrigere for eksterne virkninger. For miljørelaterte avgifter er den største svakheten ved dagens system at avgiftene ofte er differensierte, ...

Empirical researchers often combine multiple instrumental variables (IVs) for a single treatment using two-stage least squares (2SLS). When treatment effects are heterogeneous, a common justification for including multiple ...

Norwegian business spending on R&D is low by OECD standards. To stimulate business R&D, in 2002 the Norwegian government introduced a tax-based incentive, SkatteFUNN. We analyze the effects of SkatteFUNN on the likelihood ...

Individual countries are in the process of legislating responses to the challenges posed by climate change. The prospect of rising carbon prices raises concerns in these nations about the effects on the competitiveness ...

The standard economic import price index hinges on an assumption of free trade. Applying the index to situations with barriers to trade yields biased results compared to a true import price index. To circumvent this problem, ...