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    • Arbeidstidsønsker i småbarnsfasen : hvordan tolke ønsker om kortere arbeidstid? 

      Kitterød, Ragni Hege (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)
      Forskere i mange land argumenterer for at studier av arbeidstid bør suppleres med studier av arbeidstidspreferanser. Dette vil gi en bedre forståelse av folks trivsel og velferd, samtidig som det gir et bedre grunnlag for ...
    • Baby booming inequality? Demographic change and earnings inequality in Norway, 1967–2000 

      Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age-structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings ...
    • Robust inequality comparisons 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree ...
    • Identifying and reducing response burdens in internet business surveys 

      Haraldsen, Gustav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004)
      Response burden is of great concern in survey data collection activities. Despite extensive efforts on the part of data collection agencies to reduce the burden the problem seems to prevail. In this article we discuss how ...
    • On library routines in the statistical data production 

      Nordbotten, Svein; Aastorp, Thor (Journal article, 1962)
      Early in the history of program controlled computer application, users learned that programming efforts might be saved if programs and subroutines were written to satisfy certain criteria as to general use, and the ...
    • Quality Issues at Statistics Norway 

      Sæbø, Hans Viggo; Byfuglien, Jan; Johannessen, Randi (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2003)
      Statistics Norway has like other National Statistical Institutes (NSIs) worked with quality for many years, but we have now started a systematic approach, inspired by the TQM principles and the work on this in several NSIs. ...
    • Neural network imputation applied to the Norwegian 1990 population census data 

      Nordbotten, Svein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1996)
      Abstract: When adequate administrative registers are available, population censuses can be carried out by supplementing the administrative data with data compiled from sample surveys. A problem is, however, to obtain ...
    • Foreldres økonomi etter samlivsbrudd - er det mor eller far som har høyest inntekt? 

      Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Lyngstad, Jan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      Det diskuteres ofte hvem som har høyest og lavest inntekt av bostedsforeldre og samværsforeldre. Sammenligninger av bostedsmødre og samværsfedre til ett og samme barn viser at mor oftere har høyere, enn lavere, individuell ...
    • Sysselsetting blant innvandrere : hvilken betydning har individuelle egenskaper 

      Blom, Svein (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)
      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 ...
    • Haavelsmos makromodeller: endogene konjunkturer og inflasjonsteori 

      Anundsen, André Kallåk; Krogh, Tord S. H.; Nymoen, Ragnar; Vislie, Jon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Trygve Haavelmo er mest kjent for utvikling av moderen økonometri. Hans øvrige forskningsbidrag som omhandler investeringsteori ble godt kjent internasjonalt, ikke minst gjennom hans bok på engelsk. Hans videre ...
    • Avoiding adverse employment effects from electricity taxation in Norway: What does it cost? 

      Bjertnæs, Geir Haakon (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Welfare analyses of energy taxes typically show that systems with uniform rates perform better than differentiated systems. However, most western countries include some exemptions for their energyintensive export industries ...
    • Efficient simulated maximum likelihood estimation through explicitly parameter dependent importance sampling 

      Brinch, Christian N. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      There exists an overall negative assessment of the performance of the simulated maximum likelihood algorithm in the statistics literature, founded on both theoretical and empirical results. At the same time, there also ...
    • A behavioral two-sex marriage model 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Brunborg, Helge; Flaatten, Ane S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001)
      In this paper we propose a particular marriage model, i.e., a model for the number of marriages for each age combination as a function of the vectors of the number of single men and women in each age group. The model is ...
    • Potential demand for alternative fuel vehicles 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Wennemo, Tom; Wetterwald, Dag; Aaberge, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2002)
      This paper analyzes the potential demand for alternative fuel vehicles. The alternative fuel vehicles we consider are liquid propane gas and electric powered vehicles in addition to dual-fuel vehicles. The data were obtained ...
    • Et åpnere forskningssystem? 

      Cappelen, Ådne; Fagerberg, Jan; Sandmo, Agnar (Journal article, 2011)
      I mai i år ble NOU 2011:6 «Et åpnere forskningssystem» lagt fram. Hovedproblemstillingen for utvalget var hvordan man kan få mer ut av ressursinnsatsen i offentlig finansiert forskning. Utvalget utviklet et beregningsopplegg ...
    • Birds of a feather flock together’: the impact of choice of spouse on family labor income inequality 

      Aslaksen, Iulie; Wennemo, Tom; Aaberge, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)
      This paper analyzes to what extent the rise in women's labor force participation has led to ‘flocking together’, i.e. whether women with high labor income tend to be married to men with high labor income, or vice versa. ...
    • The pattern of household savings during a hyperinflation: the case of urban China in the late 1980s 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Zhu, Yu (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001)
      This paper presents evidence on household savings in urban regions of the Chinese provinces Sichuan and Liaoning based on data from the State Statistical Bureau's Urban Household Survey for the late 1980s. In this period ...
    • Pappaperm 

      Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon Hernes; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen (Journal article, 2011)
      Flere politikere og kommentatorer uttaler seg om virkningene av at far er hjemme i foreldrepermisjon. Pappaperm hevdes blant annet å bidra til likelønn, færre samlivsbrudd og et sterkere forhold mellom far og barn. I ...
    • The sensitivity of income inequality to choice of equivalence scales 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Melby, Ingrid (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1998)
      To account for the fact that a household's needs depend on its size and composition most studies on income inequality adjust the observed household incomes by equivalence scales. However, since the rationale for choosing ...
    • Measuring the benefits from public services: the effects of local government spending on the distribution of income in Norway 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)
      The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of how local public in-kind benefits affect the distribution of income in Norway. To this end, a method that accounts for differences between municipalities in capacity ...