• Saving and portfolio allocation before and after job loss 

      Basten, Christoph; Fagereng, Andreas; Telle, Kjetil (Discussion Papers;672, Working paper, 2012)
      Using administrative panel data from Norway, we investigate the development of household labor income, financial wealth and asset holdings over a nine-year period surrounding job loss. Consistent with a simple theoretical ...
    • Sick leave before, during and after pregnancy 

      Telle, Kjetil; Rieck, Karsten Marshall Elseth (Discussion Papers;No. 690, Working paper, 2012)
      Med data for alle sysselsatte kvinner som fikk sitt første barn i perioden 1995-2008 studerer vi sykefraværsmønstre før, under og etter graviditeten. Ved å følge de samme kvinnen over tid kan vi undersøke hvordan det ...
    • Social Interaction Effects in Disability Pension Participation. Evidence from Plant Downsizing 

      Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; Votruba, Mark (Discussion Papers;No. 496, Working paper, 2007)
      Abstract: We estimate the magnitude of social interaction effects in disability pension participation among older workers in Norway. Specifically, we investigate how a worker’s propensity to draw disability benefits is ...
    • Social networks and tax avoidance: Evidence from a well-defined Norwegian tax shelter 

      Alstadsæter, Annette; Kopczuk, Wojciech; Telle, Kjetil (Discussion Papers;No. 886, Working paper, 2018-11-02)
      In 2005, over 8% of Norwegian shareholders transferred their shares to new (legal) tax shelters intended to defer taxation of capital gains and dividends that would otherwise be taxable in the aftermath of 2006 reform. Using ...
    • Technological changes in the pulp and paper industry and the role of uniform versus selective environmental policy 

      Bruvoll, Annegrete; Bye, Torstein; Larsson, Jan; Telle, Kjetil (Discussion Papers;No. 357, Working paper, 2003)
      Abstract: Although environmental regulations may imply a cost increase on firm's conventional input factors, such regulations could stimulate the incentives to improve factor productivity. Productivity measures including ...
    • The Effect of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization 

      Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; Votruba, Mark (Discussion Papers;No. 435, Working paper, 2005)
      Abstract: We investigate the impact of plant downsizing on disability pension utilization in Norway. Plant downsizing substantially increases the disability entry rate of workers in affected plants. Workers originally ...
    • The intergenerational transfer of the employment gender gap 

      Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; Votruba, Mark (Discussion papers;767, Working paper, 2014-01)
      Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor market attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women. The current paper employs rich longitudinal registry data to investigate ...
    • Unit roots, polynomial transformations and the environmental Kuznets curve 

      Liu, Gang; Skjerpen, Terje; Swensen, Anders Rygh; Telle, Kjetil (Discussion Papers;No. 443, Working paper, 2006)
      Abstract: Time-series regressions including non-linear transformations of an integrated variable are not uncommon in various fields of economics. In particular, within the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) literature, ...
    • Universal child care and inequality of opportunity Descriptive findings from Norway 

      Drange, Nina; Telle, Kjetil (Rapporter;No. 880, Working paper, 2018-07-25)
      Encouraging effects from random assignments of intensive and high-quality early child care to disadvantaged children have spurred hopes that publicly funded universal child care can improve human development and social ...
    • Workload, staff composition, and sickness absence. Findings from employees in child care centers 

      Gunnes, Trude; Drange, Nina; Telle, Kjetil (Discussion Papers;No. 882, Working paper, 2018-08-17)
      We proxy workload by the number of adults per child in Norwegian child care centers, but do not find that centers with many adults per child have lower sickness absence than other centers. However, we do find that more ...