Browsing Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi by Journals "Oxford Economic Papers"
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Adult skills and labor market conditions during teenage years: cross-country evidence from international surveys
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Do individuals finishing compulsory school in economic downturns end up with higher skills in adulthood than comparable individuals that finish compulsory school in economic upturns? This article answers this question by ... -
Government funding incentives and study program capacities in public universities: theory and evidence
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Objectives aimed at increasing higher education productivity, for instance, measured by credits per student, have stimulated the use of performance-based funding (PBF) by higher education institutions (HEIs). On theoretical ... -
Public sector wage compression and wage inequality: Gender and geographic heterogeneity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Studies of wage inequality concentrate on private wages. Public sector wages are typically assumed to contribute to the overall wage equality. We challenge this understanding in an analysis of the relative skill premium ... -
Wage inequality and union membership at the establishment level: An econometric study using Norwegian data
(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 ...