Nasjonalregnskap og konjunkturer: Discussion Papers

Gini's nuclear family

Discussion Papers no. 491

Publisert: 11. desember 2006

The purpose of this paper is to justify the use of the Gini coefficient and two close relatives for summarizing the basic information of inequality in distributions of income. To this end we employ a specific transformation of the Lorenz ...

Quality adjusted price indexes for discrete goods

Discussion Papers no. 490

Publisert: 11. desember 2006

Gini's nuclear family

Discussion Papers no. 491

Publisert: 11. desember 2006

Quality adjusted price indexes for discrete goods

Discussion Papers no. 490

Publisert: 11. desember 2006

This paper discusses the construction and computation of a quality adjusted price index when the commodities are differentiated products, such as different brands of automobiles and refrigerators. The method we focus on is an extension of...

Aggregation with price variation and heterogeneity across consumers

Discussion Papers no. 489

Publisert: 10. november 2006

Aggregation with price variation and heterogeneity across consumers

Discussion Papers no. 489

Publisert: 10. november 2006

In the aggregation literature, prices and price and income derivatives are often assumed not to vary across consumers. These assumptions may not be fulfilled: prices often vary and consumers are heterogeneous in the way they respond to pr...

Estimation of earnings- and schooling choice relations

Discussion Papers no. 486

Publisert: 3. november 2006

In this paper we develop a full information maximum likelihood method for the estimation of a joint model for the choice of length of schooling and the corresponding earnings equation. The model for schooling is assumed to be an ordered p...

Simulating labor supply behavior when workers have preferences for job opportunities and face nonlinear budget constraints

Discussion Papers no. 488

Publisert: 31. oktober 2006

Simulating labor supply behavior when workers have preferences for job opportunities and face nonlinear budget constraints

Discussion Papers no. 488

Publisert: 31. oktober 2006

This paper analyzes the properties of a particular sectoral labor supply model developed in Dagsvik and Strøm (2006). The model is estimated on labor supply data for married women in Norway 1994. In this model, workers have preferences ov...

Can welfare states outgrow their fiscal sustainability problems?

Discussion Papers no. 487

Publisert: 30. oktober 2006

Estimation of earnings- and schooling choice relations

Discussion Papers no. 486

Publisert: 20. oktober 2006

Can voluntary product-labeling replace trade bans in the case of GMOs?

Discussion Papers no. 485

Publisert: 18. oktober 2006

From natural resources and environmental accounting to construction of indicators for sustainable development

Discussion Papers no. 478

Publisert: 18. oktober 2006

Norway has a long history in trying to develop management tools for sustainable development. From the early development of natural resources accounts in the 1980's, through discussions of the usefulness of indices like "green GDP" to effo...

Can voluntary product-labeling replace trade bans in the case of GMOs?

Discussion Papers no. 485

Publisert: 18. oktober 2006

Genetically modified (GM) food has raised both health-risk fears and environmental concerns. This has led some countries to ban the trade in such food triggering a great deal of controversy among countries. In this paper we ask under what...

The incentive effects of property taxation

Discussion Papers no. 484

Publisert: 13. oktober 2006