• Macroeconomic shocks and the probability of being employed 

      Kornstad, Tom; Nymoen, Ragnar; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion Papers;675, Working paper, 2012)
      Macroeconomic theories take polar views on the importance of choice versus chance. At the micro level, it seems realistic to assume that both dimensions play a role for individual employment outcomes, although it might ...
    • Search behavior, aggregate rationality and the discouraged worker effect 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion papers;906, Working paper, 2019-04)
      Discouraged workers are those who have given up search due to (perceived) low chances of obtaining work. In this paper we first develop a model for the probability of being in the labor force as a function of the probability ...