Blar i Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi på dokumenttype "Peer reviewed"
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A new Keynesian framework and wage and price dynamics in the USA
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper investigates theoretical implications from a new Keynesian model focusing on the labor market, by imposing them as testable restrictions in an estimated vector error correction model on US data from 1982Q3 to ... -
Academic work engagement, resources and productivity: empirical evidence with policy implications
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper analyzes the impact of job resources on academic productivity measured by publication and credit points in 53 departments in one large Norwegian university. The theoretical framework is the so-called conservation ... -
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 ... -
Airport consolidation and the provision of air services
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Airport policy involves decisions about not only the sizes of airports but how many airports should serve a given area. I test the arguments for airport consolidation by estimating the effect of the number of airports on ... -
Are Estimates of Non-Standard Employment Wage Penalties Robust to Different Wage Measures? The Case of Zero-hour Contracts in the UK
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Evidence suggests that non-standard jobs are associated with wage penalties. Yet, these jobs possess a range of undesirable characteristics that should generate compensating wage differentials. This evidence relies on ... -
Assortative labor matching, city size, and the education level of workers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We investigate the heterogeneity of assortative labor matching with respect to geography, skills, and tasks. Our contribution is to separate plant quality by education level and occupation tasks using the AKM-model. We ... -
Beauty, underage drinking, and adolescent risky behaviours
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Physically attractive individuals experience a range of advantages in adulthood including higher earnings; yet, how attractiveness influences earlier consequential decisions is not well understood. This paper estimates the ... -
Betydningen av fullført videregående opplæring for sysselsetting og inaktivitet blant unge voksne
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)Vi analyserer i denne artikkelen hvordan fullføring av videregående opplæring påvirker sysselsettings- og utdanningstilbøyeligheten for 22-åringer i 2008. Fullføring innen 5 år etter avsluttet grunnskole er estimert til å ... -
Bridging the Gap between Fisheries Science and Society: Exploring Fisheries Science as a Social Activity
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Much has been written about the poor relations between fisheries scientists and lay people, but the experience of two field biologists suggests that good relations can exist and have a positive impact on the exchange of ... -
Can an influential and responsible investor indeed be influential through responsible investments? Evidence from a $1 trillion fund
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Via a case study of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund (GPFG), the world’s largest stockowner, we find that such a high-profile fund can immediately influence market prices through its ESG announcements. After assessing that ... -
Capital Preservation and Current Spending with Sovereign Wealth Funds and Endowment Funds: A simulation Study
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We simulate the future performance of the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global as a leading example of sovereign wealth funds intended both to preserve wealth and provide regular budget contributions. Withdrawals are ... -
Childhood Family Dissolution and School Outcomes. The Timing of Dissolution Effects
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Existing studies estimate the negative effects of family dissolution; however, evidence regarding when such effects appear is lacking. The effect is hard to isolate for at least two reasons: families select into dissolution; ... -
Climate change and reindeer herding – A bioeconomic model on the impact of climate change on harvesting profits for Saami reindeer herders in Norway and Sweden
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)The Arctic is warming three times faster than the global average. Rising temperatures could reduce the snow-covered season and increase plant productivity in the spring, fall and summer. While this may increase carrying ... -
Conflict and cooperation in an age structured fishery
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)The literature on ‘fish wars', where agents engage in non-cooperative exploitation of single fish stocks or interacting fish stocks is well established, but age and stage structured models do not seem to have been handled ... -
Cost disease in defense and public administration: Baumol and politics
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)William Baumol’s model predicts a steady increase in relative public sector prices (or costs) because of the combination of slow productivity growth and wage growth similar to sectors wherein productivity is growing more ... -
Direct and cross price elasticities of demand for gasoline, diesel, hybrid and battery electric cars: the case of Norway
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Aim: The primary goals of this research is (i) to derive direct and cross demand market response functions for automobile powertrains and their energy carriers and (ii) to assess how CO2 emissions from automobiles depend ... -
Do Dividend Flows Affect Stock Returns?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We examine price impacts from dividend flows. Event‐study estimates show that stocks experience abnormal returns on the dividend distribution day. Results also show a spillover effect to non‐dividend‐paying stocks that are ... -
Do Smaller Classes Always Improve Students' Long-run Outcomes?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)We exploit the strict class size rule in Norway and matched individual and school register information for 1982–2011 to estimate long-run causal effects on income and educational attainment. Contrary to recent evidence ... -
Do unions care about low-paid workers? Evidence from Norway
(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 ... -
Does economic growth eat up environmental improvements? Electricity production and fossil fuel emission in OECD countries 1980-2014
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)We analyze to what extent electricity production by non-fossil fuel replaces fossil fueled electricity production in 27 OECD-countries 1980–2014. Depending on model specification, the long run replacement coefficient is ...