Browsing Statistisk sentralbyrås publikasjonsserier / Published by Statistics Norway by Subject "JEL classification: J23"
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Are technological change and organizational change biased against older workers? Firm-level evidence
(Discussion Papers;No. 512, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: Recent decades have been characterized by rapid technological change. In the same period, early withdrawal from the labor market has increased markedly. One particular question concerns the effects of technological ... -
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 ... -
Innovation and job creation in a small open economy: evidence from Norwegian manufacturing plants 1982-92
(Discussion papers;159, Working paper, 1995-12)It is often claimed that the opportunities to create new manufacturing jobs in open, high-cost economies such as Norway, are concentrated in products which are technologically advanced and knowledge intensive. This paper ... -
Job creation, heterogeneous workers and technical change : matched worker/plant data : evidence from Norway
(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
(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 ... -
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, ... -
The demand for labour and the Lucas critique : evidence from Norwegian manufacturing
(Discussion Papers;No. 256, Working paper, 1999)This paper uses neoclassical theory as a foundation for modelling labour demand in Norwegian manufacturing. Applying the Johansen (1988,1991) methodology, we obtain a single cointegrating vector between employment, production, ... -
Underemployment in a gender segregated labour market
(Discussion Papers;613, Working paper, 2010)This article analyses factors behind underemployment in Norway and has a focus on gender. The analysis, based on Labour Force Survey data, shows that economic fluctuations during the latest one and a half decade bring about ... -
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 ...