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Discouraged worker effects and barriers against employment for immigrant and non-immigrant women
(Discussion Papers;No. 845, Working paper, 2016-09-01)A phenomenon observed in many labor markets is that the supply of labor appears to depend on business cycles. In other words, workers who are searching for work become “discouraged” under unfavorable business cycle conditions ... -
Discrete and continuous choice, max-stable processes and independence from irrelevant attributes
(Discussion Paper;No. 79, Working paper, 1993-01)The Generalized Extreme Value Model was developed by McFadden for the case with discrete choice sets. The present paper extends this model to cases with both discrete and continuous choice sets and choice sets that are ... -
Discrimination in Europe : evidence from the rental market
(Discussion Papers;No. 547, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: This paper considers statistical discrimination in rental markets, using a rich data set on rental contracts from Norway. We find that tenants born abroad pay a statistically significant and economically important ... -
Distance and choice of field: Evidence from a Norwegian college expansion reform
(Discussion Paper;No. 932, Working paper, 2020-06)How can geographical proximity to college explain field of study choices? We empirically address this question using the major expansion of university colleges in Norway in the second half of the twentieth century, when ... -
Distribution of Preferences and Measurement Errors in a Disaggregated Expenditure System
(Discussion papers;149, Working paper, 1995-12)A complete system of consumer expenditure functions with 28 commodity groups is modelled and estimated by means of Norwegian household panel data. Measurement errors are carefully modelled. Total consumption expenditure ... -
Distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies
(Discussion Papers;No. 135, Working paper, 1995)A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families ... -
Distributional and environmental effects of taxes on transportation
(Discussion Papers;No. 321, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: This article studies environmental and distributional effects from a differentiated tax system on a set of disaggregated transportation goods. Empirical examination on Norwegian data indicates that higher tax ... -
Distributional benchmarking in tax policy evaluations
(Discussion papers;765, Working paper, 2013-11)Given an objective to exploit cross-sectional micro data to evaluate the distributional effects of tax policies over a time period, the practitioner of public economics will find that the relevant literature offers a wide ... -
Distributional effects of environmental taxes on transportation. Evidence from engel curves in the United States
(Discussion Papers;No. 428, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: Indirect taxes on transportation activities that pollute can correct externalities and close the gaps between private and social costs. However, policy makers often find such Pigou taxes difficult to implement ... -
The Distributional impact of public services when needs differ
(Discussion Papers;No. 621, Working paper, 2010)Abstract: Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects ... -
Divorce in norwegian same-sex marriages 1993-2011
(Discussion papers;723, Working paper, 2012-12)Using longitudinal register data, we first present updated descriptive statistics on the total population of same-sex registered partnerships and marriages formed 1993-2010. Second, we investigate the divorce risk of these ... -
Divorced Fathers’ Proximity and Children’s Long Run Outcomes : evidence from Norwegian Registry Data
(Discussion Papers;No 589, Working paper, 2009)This study examines the link between divorced nonresident fathers’ proximity and children’s long-run outcomes using high-quality data from Norwegian population registers. We follow (from birth to young adulthood) 15,992 ... -
Do audits improve future tax compliance in the absence of penalties? Evidence from random Audits in Norway
(Discussion Paper;No. 943, Working paper, 2020-11)The Norwegian Tax Administration operated multi-year random audits of personal income tax returns. We exploit this exceptional randomized setup to estimate the effects of tax audits on future compliance explicitly ... -
Do cost-benefit analyses favour environmentalists?
(Discussion Paper;No. 84, Working paper, 1993-02)Money and environmental quality units are considered as unit for aggregating willingness to pay. For those with a high willingness to pay for environmental quality, the choice of money as aggregation unit is most favourable. ... -
Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards?
(Discussion Paper;No. 947, Working paper, 2021-01)Do employees benefit from worker representation on corporate boards? Economists and policymakers are keenly interested in this question – especially lately, as worker representation is widely promoted as an important way ... -
Do environmental regulations hamper productivity growth? How accounting for improvements of firms' environmental performance can change the conclusion
(Discussion Papers;No. 374, Working paper, 2004)Abstract: Many economists maintain that environmental regulations hamper productivity growth. However, recently, an opposing view has gained advocates. Indeed, it has been suggested that the empirically detected inverse ... -
Do funds for more teachers improve student outcomes?
(Discussion Paper;No. 982, Working paper, 2022-06)We investigate the effects of a large-scale Norwegian reform that provided extra teachers to 166 lower secondary schools with relatively high student-teacher ratios and low average grades. We exploit these two margins using ... -
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 ... -
Do immigrants integrate out of poverty in Norway
(Discussion Papers;No. 482, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: In light of the riots and unrest among immigrants in France during the fall of 2005, the question of how immigrants are faring with respect to a certain minimum in society is both a timely and pertinent question ... -
Do Models Improve Fishery management? Empirical evidence from a experimental study
(Discussion Papers;No. 228, Working paper, 1998)At the initial stage of this project, the project group consisted of Asbjørn Aaheim, Magnus Hatlebakk and the authors. The authors are grateful for the discussion with the other project participants at this stage. We also ...