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Effects of increased demand from petroleum and increased spending of oil revenues 2003-2012
Reports 2013/57
The increased demand from the petroleum industry and spending of government petroleum revenue has boosted employment and reduced unemployment. Meanwhile it has weakened the cost competitiveness and thus reduced activity in traditional exposed indu...
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The Norwegian Petroleum Industry's Impact on the Economy and the Wage Determination
Reports 2013/59
Future petroleum industry downsizing and oil price shock sensitivity: This report presents projections for the Norwegian economy towards 2040 and analyses of how the economy will respond to different scenarios with a large drop in the crude oil pr...
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Economic trends for Møre og Romsdal
Reports 2013/53
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Pro-cyclical mortality
Discussion Papers no. 766
Using variation across geographical regions, a number of studies from the U.S. and other developed countries have found more deaths in economic upturns and less deaths in economic downturns. We use data from regions in Norway for 1977-2008 and fin...
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Distributional benchmarking in tax policy evaluations
Discussion Papers no. 765
Given an objective to exploit cross-sectional micro data to evaluate the distributional effects of tax policies over a time period, the practitioner of public economics will find that the relevant literature offers a wide variety of empirical appr...
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Are closely-held firms tax shelters?
Discussion Papers no. 764
In 2004 Norwegian authorities announced a reform introducing dividend taxation for personal (but not corporate) owners to take effect starting in 2006. This change provided incentives to maximize dividends in 2004 and 2005, and to retain earnings ...
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A theory for ranking distribution functions
Discussion Papers no. 763
When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can ...
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The ins and outs of top income mobility
Discussion Papers no. 762
This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes.
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U.S. versus Sweden
Discussion Papers no. 761
An essential difference between the design of the Swedish and the US in-work tax credit systems relates to their functional forms.
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Becoming “We” instead of “I”
Discussion Papers no. 760
This article studies how a firm fosters formal and informal interaction among its employees to create a collective identity and positively influence their effort.
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MSG-TECH: Analysis and documentation of a general equilibrium model with endogenous climate technology adaptations
Reports 2013/47
To meet the global challenge of climate change, shifts in industrial structures and consumption patterns will have to be accompanied by technological adaptations.
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Gender equality in the family and childbearing
Discussion Papers no. 759
This study focuses on the possible effect of gender equality and equity in the family on the transition to first, second and third births.
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Asset market participation and portfolio choice over the life-cycle
Discussion Papers no. 758
We study the life cycle of portfolio allocation following for 15 years a large random sample of Norwegian households using error-free data on all components of households' investments drawn from the Tax Registry.
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Does parenthood imply less specialization than before?
Discussion Papers no. 757
The presence of children still tends to reinforce a traditional division of labour in couples in many countries.
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Self-reinforcing effects between housing prices and credit: an extended version
Discussion Papers no. 756
The financial crisis has brought the interaction between housing prices and household borrowing into the limelight of economic policy debate.
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