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    • Assessing income tax perturbations 

      Christiansen, Vidar; Jia, Zhiyang; Thoresen, Thor Olav (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We present a scheme for analysing income tax perturbations, applied to a real Norwegian tax reform during 2016–2018. The framework decomposes the reform into a structural reform part and a tax level effect. The former ...
    • Emission targets and coalition options for a small, ambitious country: An analysis of welfare costs and distributional impacts for Norway 

      Fæhn, Taran; Yonezawa, Hidemichi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      We theoretically and numerically analyse the impacts for a small, open country with carbon abatement ambitions of joining a coalition with allowance trading. Besides welfare impacts for both the coalition and the small, ...
    • Predicting poverty trends by survey-to-survey imputation: The challenge of comparability 

      Mathiassen, Astrid; Wold, Bjørn K. Getz (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Poverty in low-income countries is usually measured using large and infrequent household consumption surveys. The challenge is to find methods to measure poverty rates more frequently. This study validates a survey-to-survey ...
    • Flere eldre innvandrere i framtidens arbeidsstyrke 

      Tønnessen, Marianne; Syse, Astri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Antall innvandrere i Norge vil øke framover, men utelukkende i de eldre aldersgruppene. I aldersgruppen 55-66 år vil det bli nesten tre ganger så mange innvandrere de neste 20 årene. Hva vil dette bety for norsk arbeids- ...
    • Modeling R&D spillovers to productivity: The effects of tax credits 

      von Brasch, Thomas; Cappelen, Ådne; Hungnes, Håvard; Skjerpen, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      How much stimuli that should be attributed to R&D investments crucially depends on how the benefits of R&D reverberate throughout the economy. An extensive literature has found major spillover effects from R&D investments ...
    • Øremerking kan styrke aksepten for klimaavgifter 

      Lindhjem, Henrik; Bruvoll, Annegrete; Grimsrud, Kristine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Klimaavgifter møter motstand i Norge og i andre land, selv om klimaavgifter er det mest kostnadseffektive virkemidlet og helt nødvendig for å oppnå klimamålene. I dag avviker norsk klimaavgiftspolitikk fortsatt kraftig fra ...
    • Who and how many can work from home? Evidence from task descriptions 

      Holgersen, Henning; Jia, Zhiyang; Svenkerud, Simen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)
      The Covid-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work from home (WFH) in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. The ability to work from home has long been considered a perk, but we ...
    • Fordelingseffekter av offentlig tjenesteproduksjon i Europa. 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Lindgren, Petter Y. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Formålet med denne artikkelen er å belyse hvordan inntektsulikhet og fattigdom varierer mellom europeiske land, når verdien av offentlige tjenester inngår i inntektsbegrepet. De tradisjonelle fordelingsstudiene basert på ...
    • Cultural norms and financial incentives: A model of how to fund universities 

      Gunnes, Trude (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      This paper derives the optimal compensation contract when two asymmetrically verifiable tasks are tied together, a cultural norm of behavior coexists with a financial incentive, and public funding is also a concern. To ...
    • Not Just Later, but Fewer: Novel Trends in Cohort Fertility in the Nordic Countries 

      Hellstrand, Julia; Nisén, Jessica; Miranda, Vitor F.O.; Fallesen, Peter; Dommermuth, Lars; Myrskylä, Mikko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      With historically similar patterns of high and stable cohort fertility and high levels of gender equality, the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland are seen as forerunners in demographic behavior. ...
    • Interrelationships among fertility, internal migration, and proximity to nonresident family: A multilevel multiprocess analysis 

      Thomas, Michael J.; Dommermuth, Lars (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Past research has found that relations to nonresident family can influence individual fertility and migration behaviors separately. However, fertility and migration outcomes may also be interrelated, suggesting potential ...
    • Predicting the path of labor supply responses when state dependence matters. 

      Vattø, Trine Engh; Jia, Zhiyang (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The standard labor supply model ignores possible inertia originating from individuals’ previous labor supply decisions and assumes immediate adjustments to policy reforms. In this study we develop a model where past labor ...
    • Migration after union dissolution in the United States: The role of non-resident family 

      Spring, Amy; Mulder, Clara H.; Thomas, Michael J.; Cooke, Thomas J. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-02)
      Separation from a spouse or cohabiting partner is associated with a high likelihood of moving, even over long distances. In this paper, we use longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the United States ...
    • Do older parents' assistance needs deter parent-child geographic divergence in Norway? 

      Artamonova, Alyona; Syse, Astri (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The role of intergenerational geographic proximity in individuals' migration decisions has been well-established. The circumstances under which parents and their adult children move away from or remain close to each other ...
    • Politikk på politikk – derfor koster klimapolitikken 

      Bye, Brita; Fæhn, Taran; Kaushal, Kevin R.; Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid; Yonezawa, Hidemichi (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Norge har ambisiøse mål i klimapolitikken for ikke-kvotepliktig sektor. Kuttene kan gjennomføres billigst mulig ved å stille alle utslippskildene overfor samme utslippspris. Imidlertid oppstår en stor del av de samfunnsøkonomiske ...
    • Buy to let housing investors in the Nordic countries 

      Bø, Erlend Eide (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The last few decades have seen high population and housing price growth in the Nordic capital cities. The high prices have led to concerns about affordability of housing and unsustainable mortgage levels. Policy makers and ...
    • Are Carbon Prices Redundant in the 2030 EU Climate and Energy Policy Package? 

      Aune, Finn Roar; Golombek, Rolf (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In 2018, an agreement between the key EU institutions—the Commission, the European Parliament, and the European Council—was reached after a long-lasting discourse over the 2030 EU climate and energy policy package. This ...
    • Effects of higher required rates of return on the tax take in an oil province 

      Lindholt, Lars (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)
      For different reasons the oil companies might apply higher required rates of return than they did some years ago, and this has consequences for investments and tax revenue in oil provinces. By applying various required ...
    • Ranking intersecting distribution functions 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Second-degree dominance has become a widely accepted criterion for ordering distribution functions according to social welfare. However, it provides only a partial ordering, and it may fail to rank distributions that ...