• Mother's employment and fertility in Norway 

      Gerster, Mette; Lappegård, Trude (Discussion Papers;No. 624, Working paper, 2010)
      Abstract: This paper concerns the effect of employment status on second- and third-birth intensities for Norwegian mothers in the period 1994-2002. Due to unobserved heterogeneity possibly affecting both the birth and the ...
    • Moving beyond expectations. From cohort-component to microsimulation projections 

      Jia, Zhiyang; Leknes, Stefan; Løkken, Sturla A. (Discussion Paper;No. 999, Working paper, 2023-03)
      Population projections are predominantly made using the cohort-component method (CCM). The opportunities for further development within that framework are limited. Lately, with advances in technical and computational ...
    • MPC heterogeneity and household balance sheets 

      Fagereng, Andreas; Holm, Martin B.; Natvik, Gisle J. (Discussion Papers;No. 852, Working paper, 2016-11-16)
      Using Norwegian administrative data, we study how sizable lottery prizes affect household expenditure and savings. Expenditure responses (MPCs) spike in the year of winning, with a mean estimate of 0.35, and thereafter ...
    • MSG-4E : ligningssystem og variabeloversikt 

      Longva, Svein; Lorentsen, Lorents; Olsen, Øystein (Interne notater;nr 81/10, Working paper, 1981)
      Notatet gir en kortfattet oversikt over den formelle struktur i den makroøkonomiske modellen MSG-4E. I framstillingen er det lagt særlig vekt på å gi en komplett oversikt over modellens ligningssystem. Som vedlegg er ...
    • MSG-6 : utslippsmodellenes ligningsstruktur : teknisk dokumentasjon 

      Strøm, Birger (Notater / Documents;2000/22, Working paper, 2000)
      Siden 1986 har Statistisk sentralbyrå med jevne mellomrom presentert framskrivninger av utslipp til luft for en rekke forurensningskomponenter. Beregningene er først og fremst utført ved hjelp av ulike varianter av den ...
    • Muligheter for statistikk om utsendte arbeidstakere 

      Næsheim, Helge Nome (Notater / Documents;2019 / 6, Working paper, 2019-01-31)
      Flere brukere av sysselsettingsstatistikk er interessert i å få tall for utsendte arbeidstakere. Dette er ansatte i utenlandske foretak som kommer til Norge i forbindelse med at foretaket har fått oppdrag. I notatet ...
    • The multi-sectoral growth model MSG-4 : formal structure and empirical characteristics 

      Longva, Svein; Olsen, Øystein; Lorentsen, Lorents (Discussion Paper;No. 8, Working paper, 1985)
      In the first part of this paper a brief retrospective survey of the development of the MSG model is given, from it was first presented in Johansen (1960) until the present version MSG-4. Some principal choices to be ...
    • Multidimensional poverty and inequality 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea (Discussion papers;792, Working paper, 2014-12)
      This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it outlines three aspects preliminary to any multidimensional study: the selection of the relevant dimensions; ...
    • Multigenerational persistence: Evidence from 146 years of administrative data 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Discussion Papers;No. 850, Working paper, 2016-11-21)
      This paper uses Norwegian census data on occupational associations among grandfathers, fathers and sons from 1865 to 2011 and finds significant grandparental influence throughout the period. There is increasing evidence ...
    • Multinomial choice and selectivity 

      Dagsvik, John K. (Discussion Papers;No 264, Working paper, 2000)
      In this paper we discuss two types of selection problems. The first problem is motivated by labor market analyses such as the estimation of sector-specific wage equations where the sector for which the wages are observed ...
    • Multinomial logit estimation of transition probabilities for workers in government sector, municipal sector, private sector with and without contractual pensions (AFP) and self-employed 

      Holtsmark, Bjart (Notater / Documents;2017/32, Working paper, 2017-09-21)
      To analyze the population's total work-up of rights and future payments for occupational pensions in public sectors, the current regulations for these schemes are incorporated into the microsimulation model MOSART. But in ...
    • Multiple instruments to change energy behaviour : the emperor's new clothes 

      Bye, Torstein; Bruvoll, Annegrete (Discussion Papers;No. 549, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: Over the last few decades, several instruments have evolved to deal with similar energy and environmental challenges. For instance, the economic literature prescribes separate tax or cap-and-trade systems to ...
    • Multivariate stochastic volatility models based on non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck processes : a quasi-likelihood approach 

      Raknerud, Arvid; Skare, Øivind (Discussion Papers;614, Working paper, 2010)
      This paper extends the ordinary quasi-likelihood estimator for stochastic volatility models based on non-Gaussian Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) processes to vector processes. Despite the fact that multivariate modeling of asset ...
    • Nasjonalt program for offisiell statistikk 2024–2027. Dokumentasjon 

      Sæbø, Hans Viggo; Hoel, Marit; Ragnarsøn, Richard; Vigran, Åsne (Notater;2024/11, Working paper, 2024-02)
      Notatet dokumenterer arbeidet og erfaringene med utvikling av det andre nasjonale statistikk programmet i Statistisk sentralbyrå (SSB) og samhandlingen med brukere, statistikkprodusenter og andre interessenter i Utvalget ...
    • Natural Resource Accounting and Analysis in Norway 

      Alfsen, Knut H. (Documents;1994/2, Working paper, 1994-07)
    • Net national product as a welfare indicator 

      Brekke, Kjell Arne (Discussion Paper;No. 65, Working paper, 1991-10)
      Weitzman (1976) claimed that in the case of linear utility, NNP ia proportional to welfare, defined as the discounted value of future utility. We first demonstrate that this theory only applies to economies with stationary ...
    • Netback pricing as a remedy for the Russian gas deficit 

      Tsygankova, Marina (Discussion Papers;No. 554, Working paper, 2008)
      Abstract: This descriptive study discusses the effects of increases in domestic gas prices on the Russian gas market. Domestic natural gas prices have remained below their long-run marginal cost for more than a decade ...
    • Networking strategy: Cooperate today in order to meet a cooperator tomorrow 

      Rege, Mari (Discussion Papers;No. 282, Working paper, 2000)
      This paper explains why people might cooperate playing an infinitely recurring prisoners' dilemma in which they change their partner in every period. After two people have played the prisoners' dilemma there is a possibility ...
    • A new approach to estimating private returns to R&D 

      Cappelen, Ådne; Mohnen, Pierre; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina (Discussion Paper;No. 1005, Working paper, 2023-08)
      This paper revisits the estimation of private returns to R&D. In an extension of the standard approach, we allow for endogeneity of production decisions, heterogeneity of R&D elasticities, and asymmetric treatment of ...
    • New estimation methodology for the Norwegian Labour Force Survey 

      Oguz-Alper, Melike (Notater / Documents;2018/16, Working paper, 2018-04-26)
      Labour Force Survey (LFS) is an important source of the labour market statistics that provides information about the participation of people aged 15 and over in to the labour market and people outside of the labour market. ...