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  • Do we have to work more? Macroeconomic effects of less materialistic growth

    Reports 2014/13

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  • Economic Survey 1-2014

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  • Is universal child care leveling the playing field?

    Discussion Papers no. 774

    We assess the case for universal child care programs in the context of a Norwegian reform which led to a large-scale expansion of subsidized child care.

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  • Adjusting maternal mortality data for international comparisons

    Discussion Papers no. 773

    Adjusting maternal mortality data for international comparisons. The case of vital registration systems

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  • Weak economic trends

    The moderate growth in activity experienced last year is expected to continue for another few years. Loss of powerful growth impulses from petroleum investments will be replaced by a moderate increase in growth in other demand. Unemployment will c...

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  • Pick a number

    Discussion Papers no. 772

    Recidivism studies differ with respect to samples, definitions and follow-up periods. While it is recognized that such differences hamper comparability, there is little systematic knowledge about how recidivism figures are affected.

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  • Time aggregation and state dependence in welfare receipt

    Discussion Papers no. 771

    Dynamic discrete-choice models have been an important tool in studies of state dependence in benefit receipt. An assumption of such models is that benefit receipt sequences follow a conditional Markov process.

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  • Taxes on the internet

    Discussion Papers no. 770

    Supporters of public disclosure of personal tax information point to its deterrent effect on tax evasion, but this effect has not been empirically explored.

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  • Diffusion of climate technologies in the presence of commitment problems

    Discussion Papers no. 768

    Publicly announced GHG mitigation targets and emissions pricing strategies by individual governments may suffer from inherent commitment problems. When emission prices are perceived as short-lived, socially cost-effective upfront investment in cli...

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  • Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income

    Discussion Papers no. 769

    Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility as an e...

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  • Quarterly national accounts

    Documents 2014/02

    The structure of this document is written in accordance with the guidelines developed by the Statistical Office of the European Communities (Eurostat) in the document "Guidelines for the drafting of QNA inventories" (Eurostat 2006). A common templ...

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  • The intergenerational transfer of the employment gender gap

    Discussion Papers no. 767

    Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor market attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women.

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  • Economic Survey 3-2013

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  • Upturn to start in 2015

    Despite good income growth and low interest rates, the development in household demand is currently weak. Likewise, foreign demand is making no appreciable contribution to output growth in Norway. This will also impact the development in 2014. Une...

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  • Exposed industries in Norway

    Reports 2013/58

    Which industries constitute Norwegian exposed sector, and how has this part of the economy developed over time?

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