Browsing Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi by Author "Svarstad, Elin"
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Do unions care about low-paid workers? Evidence from Norway
Svarstad, Elin (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)One of the core objectives of unions is to raise the wages of the lowest paid. Utilizing a panel of individual-matched employee–employer data covering the Norwegian private sector in the period 2000–2014, I investigate how ... -
Unions, collective agreements and productivity: A firm‐level analysis using Norwegian matched employer–employee panel data
Svarstad, Elin; Kostøl, Fredrik Bakkemo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)What is the role of collective agreements in explaining how unions affect firm-level productivity? Using matched employer–employee panel data for the Norwegian labour market, comprising almost 21 million individual-year ... -
Wage inequality and union membership at the establishment level: An econometric study using Norwegian data
Svarstad, Elin; Nymoen, Ragnar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)We model the empirical relationship between the within-establishment union membership rate and wage inequality in Norway. The data set is a panel of 2,285 private-sector establishments observed in the period 2000–18. The ... -
What do unions do? Evidence from Norway
Svarstad, Elin (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:158, Doctoral thesis, 2023)