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Vegetasjonskart fra Brøggerhalvøy, Kongsfjorden, Ny Ålesund, Svalbard. Målestokk 1:50 og 1:500
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Vegetation and land use. Himo watershed. Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania. Map 1:50000
(Research report, 1985) -
Catchment Forestry in Tanzania. Status and Management
(Research report, 1985)The report is a conultancy for NORAD (Norwegian Agency for International Development) and Forest Division of the Tanzania Ministry of Lands, Natural Resources and Tourism. The report gives and overview over catcment forests ... -
Modelling of indoor air quality in residential and commercial buildings
(Dr. ingeniøravhandling, 0809-103X; 2000:75, Doctoral thesis, 2000) -
The role of cultural differences between Norway and Russia in business relationships: Application to strategic management in Norwegian companies
(Dr. ingeniøravhandling, 0809-103X; 2001:109, Doctoral thesis, 2001)In this thesis I investigate the cultural differences between Norway and Russia and their impact on the business relationships that Norwegian companies establish with Russian counterparts. The emphasis is on how to take ... -
Dust in the indoor environment : physical and chemical changes due to hot surface contact
(Dr. ingeniøravhandling, 0809-103X; 2001:87, Doctoral thesis, 2001)The aim of this study was to characterise indoor dust before and after hot surface contact with respect to physical and chemical changes. Changes that may relate to human health were to be given special consideration. The ... -
Wage Bargaining and Employer Objectives
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:24, Research report, 2002)This paper compares union wage bargaining outcomes across different types of employers. Five different employer objectives are discussed; profit–, welfare– and output maximization, and two specifications of a Leviathan. ... -
Modelling Wages and Prices in Australia
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:12, Research report, 2002)This paper estimates a simultaneous-equation model of wages and prices for Australia, underpinned by a competing claims framework of imperfect competition. Two separate cointegrating relationships for wages and prices are ... -
International Diversification, Growth, and Welfare with Non-Traded Income Risk and Incomplete Markets
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:17, Research report, 2002)We ask how the potential benefits from cross-border asset trade are affected by the presence of non-traded income risk in incomplete markets. We show that the mean consumption growth may be lower with full integration than ... -
Nonlinear Wage Responses to Internal and External Factors
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:9, Research report, 2002)The paper tests whether or not the effects on sectoral wages of internal and external factors depend upon the sector’s relative wage position. The key hypothesis is that workers in low—wage sectors are more concerned with ... -
The Empirical (ir)Relevance of the New Keynesian Phillips Curve
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:21, Research report, 2002)We give an appraisal of the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NPC) as an empirical model of European inflation. We show that existing evidence reported in favour of the NPC on Euro-area and country data is due to a corroborative ... -
Plastkraft - gullgruve eller miljøbombe?
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Financial Integration and Consumption Comovements in the Nordic Countries
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:15, Research report, 2002)The cross-country correlations between annual per capita consumption growth in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) during the period 1973-1996 are much lower than predicted by the basic theory of ... -
Creating organizational change and innovation: An action research oriented study of participative organizational change and innovation in the Norwegian AEC industry
(Dr.ingeniøravhandling, 0809-103X; 2002:93, Doctoral thesis, 2002)This thesis contributes to the understanding of how to create organizational change and innovation in companies of the Norwegian Architects, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. The thesis, then, inquires into the ... -
A Wage Curve for the Interwar Labour Market: Evidence from a Panel of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:18, Research report, 2002)We present an econometric analysis of wage behaviour in Norway during the interwar years. Applying GMM estimation methods to a newly constructed panel of manufacturing industry data, we Þnd that the interwar years do not ... -
Absence and Overtime Work: Empirical Evidence from Norway
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2001:26, Research report, 2002)This paper presents both theoretical and empirical analyses of the relationship between overtime work and absence. Demand for absence is analysed under the assumption that workers in a given firm can be represented by one ... -
Survey-based Indicators of Regional Labour Markets and Interregional Migration in Norway
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:14, Research report, 2002)A rich set of regional labour market variables is utilised to explain interregional migration in Norway. In particular, regional indicators of labour market pressure are computed from survey data in which respondents are ... -
Non-linear Unemployment Effects in Sickness Absence: Discipline or Composition Effects?
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:25, Research report, 2002)By applying Smooth Transition Regressions (Teräsvirta, 1998) we test whether effects on short (STA) and long term (LTA) sickness absence depend on the level of unemployment. The main question is to what extent unemployment ... -
Hysteresis in Unemployment: Evidence from Norwegian Counties
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:6, Research report, 2002)The paper tests hysteresis effects in unemployment using aggregate and panel data for Norway. While tests using aggregate or county—specific time series do not reject the null of unit root hysteresis, the panel tests firmly ... -
Wages and Subjective Assessments of Regional Labour Market Pressure
(Working Paper Series, 1503-299X; 2002:20, Research report, 2002)We utilise a rich set of regional labour market variables to explain regional variation in Norwegian manufacturing wages. In particular, regional indicators of labour market pressure are computed from survey data in which ...