• An up-to-date joint labor supply and child care choice model 

      Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, Trine Engh (Discussion Papers;No. 885, Working paper, 2018-10-12)
      Norwegian parents of preschool children base their care choices on a completely different choice set from their predecessor. Now there is essentially only one type of nonparental care – center-based care – and on the ...
    • Closing the gender gap in pensions. A microsimulation analysis of the Norwegian NDC pension system 

      Halvorsen, Elin; Pedersen, Axel West (Discussion Papers;No. 855, Working paper, 2017-02-20)
      In this paper we use an advanced micro-simulation model to study the distributional effects of the reformed Norwegian pension system with a particular focus on gender equality. he reformed Norwegian system is based on ...
    • Discouraged worker effects and barriers against employment for immigrant and non-immigrant women 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Kornstad, Tom; Skjerpen, Terje (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 ...
    • Identifying fertility contagion using random fertility shocks 

      Cools, Sara; Kaldager, Rannveig Hart (Discussion Papers;No. 861, Working paper, 2017-06-13)
      Does the fertility behavior of one individual affect the fertility choices of another? This study aims to estimate fertility contagion net of unobserved heterogeneity, using sibling networks as an empirical example. Fertility ...
    • Parenthood and couples’ relative earnings in Norway 2005-2014 

      Bergsvik, Janna; Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Wiik, Kenneth Aarskaug (Discussion Papers;No. 873, Working paper, 2018-04-16)
      In the current paper, we investigate within-couple inequality in earnings using Norwegian register data on married and cohabiting couples. We are particularly interested in assessing whether the negative relation between ...