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A theory-based measure of the output of the education sector
(Discussion Papers;No. 353, Working paper, 2003)Abstract: The paper estimates the output of the Norwegian higher education sector based on a modification of the methodology introduced by Jorgenson and Fraumeni (JF) (1989). JF measure output in the education sector by ... -
Causal effects of paternity on children and parents
(Discussion Papers;No. 657, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to ... -
Do higher wages reflect higher productivity? : education, gender and experience premiums in a matched plant-worker data set
(Discussion Papers;No. 208, Working paper, 1997)Do wage differences between workers with high and low levels of education, between males and females and between workers with different levels of experience reflect differences in productivity? We address this set of ... -
Entry into work following childbirth among mothers in Norway. Recent trends and variation
(Discussion papers;702, Working paper, 2012-09)Universal parental leaves with job protection and earnings compensation increase women’s attachment to the labour market, but very long leaves may have negative consequences both at the individual and the societal level. ... -
Experience and schooling : substitutes or complements?
(Discussion Papers;No. 301, Working paper, 2001)Abstract: This paper investigates whether returns to experience and seniority vary between workers with different levels of education and between different types of firms. Using a large administrative dataset for Norwegian ... -
Field of study, earnings and selfselection
(Discussion papers;794, Working paper, 2015-01)Why do individuals choose different types of post-secondary education, and what are the labor market consequences of those choices? We show that answering these questions is difficult because individuals choose between ... -
Immigrant skills and employment. Cross-country evidence from the Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey
(Discussion papers;730, Working paper, 2013-01)This paper studies the distributions of literacy skills, education, and employment of immigrants and natives in three host countries: Canada, the United States, and Norway. For natives, we uncover remarkably stable relations ... -
Improving educational pathways to social mobility. Evidence from Norway’s “Reform 94”
(Discussion papers;916, Working paper, 2019-09)High school vocational education has a controversial history in the United States, largely due to a perceived tradeoff between teaching readily deployable occupational skills versus shunting mostly disadvantaged students ... -
Is the relationship between schooling and disability pension receipt causal?
(Discussion papers;748, Working paper, 2013-06)We examine the potential causal effect of years of schooling on the use of public disability pensions by studying the extension of compulsory schooling introduced in Norway in the 1960s. Simple regressions of disability ... -
Mobilising female labour market reserves: What promotes women’s transitions from part-time to full-time work?
(Discussion Papers; No. 658, Working paper, 2011)Considering the high female part-time rates in Norway, one may envisage a sizeable additional labour supply if more part-time working women would switch to full time. In view of an ageing population and increased demand ... -
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, ... -
Pennies from heaven. Using exogenous tax variation to identify effects of school resources on pupil achievement
(Discussion Papers;No. 508, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: Despite important policy implications associated with the allocation of education resources, evidence on the effectiveness of school inputs remains inconclusive. In part, this is due to endogenous allocation; ... -
Preferences for lifetime earnings, earnings risk and nonpecuniary attributes in choice of higher education
(Discussion papers;725, Working paper, 2012-12)Expected earnings are considered to influence individuals' choice of education. However, the presence of nonpecuniary attributes and the different choice set available to prospective students make identification of this ... -
Pupil achievement, school resources and family background
(Discussion Papers;No. 397, Working paper, 2004)Whether increasing resource use in schools has a positive effect on pupil performance has occupied governments, parents and researchers for decades. A main challenge when trying to answer this question is to separate the ... -
A typology of work-family arrangements among dual-earner couples in Norway
(Discussion Papers;636, Working paper, 2010)An important aim of Norwegian work-family policies is to promote a dual-earner, equal-sharing family model, but we do not really know how common this family type is. By means of a multinomial latent-class model we develop ... -
Untraditional couples in a neo-traditional setting : which women perform as much paid work as their partner?
(Discussion Papers;607, Working paper, 2010)An equal division of paid and unpaid work is a central political ambition in Norway. Yet, couples’ division of paid work has been less studied than their division of unpaid work. This paper shows that women seldom work ... -
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 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 ... -
Why children of college graduates outperform their schoolmates : a study of cousins and adoptees
(Discussion papers;No. 628, Working paper, 2010)Abstract: There is massive cross-sectional evidence that children of more educated parents outperform their schoolmates on tests, grade repetition and in educational attainment. However, evidence for causal interpretation ...