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Modeling R&D spillovers to productivity: The effects of tax policy
Discussion Papers no. 927
We study the role of R&D spillovers when modelling total factor productivity (TFP) by industry.
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Estimating the elasticity of taxable income when earnings responses are sluggish
Discussion Papers no. 926
Estimates of the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) is conventionally obtained by “stacking” three-year overlapping differences in the estimation.
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The marginal (opportunity) cost of public funds
Discussion Papers no. 925
Several studies show cases where the Samuelson rule holds, or where the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) equals one within optimized tax systems.
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Revisions in the Norwegian National Accounts
Discussion Papers no. 924
This paper investigates the quality of preliminary figures in the Norwegian national accounts. To address the problem of few observations in such analyses, we use some recently developed system tests.
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What can we learn about household consumption expenditure from data on income and assets?
Discussion Papers no. 923
The goal of this paper is to examine the advantages and difficulties of deriving consumption expenditure measures from register data on income and assets.
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Effects of policy on fertility: A systematic review of (quasi)experiments
Discussion Papers no. 922
This paper describes the results of a systematic review of the literature of policy effects on fertility after 1970 in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia.
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Does health influence fertility?
Discussion Papers no. 921
Poor health may constrain women’s capacity for active leisure, including family life and childrearing, for participation in the labor market and potentially affect preferences. Still, health remains remarkably understudied as a fertility determinant.
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Smart hedging against carbon leakage
Discussion Papers no. 920
Policy makers in the EU and elsewhere are concerned that unilateral carbon pricing induces carbon leakage through relocation of emission-intensive and trade-exposed industries to other regions.
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Impacts of hospital wait time on patient health and labor supply
Discussion Papers no. 919
We estimate the effects of wait time for orthopedic surgery on health and labor market outcomes of Norwegian workers.
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Imperfect competition, compensating differentials and rent sharing in the U.S. labor market
Discussion Papers no. 918
The primary goal of this paper is to quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the U.S. labor market by estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and workers from ongoing employment relationships.
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First union formation among the children of immigrants in Norway: Timing and choice of union type
Discussion Papers no. 917
This study uses Norwegian register data on all individuals born 1985 to 2000 who were either native-born or who immigrated as children or teens to investigate timing of first co-residential union and choice of union type in the period 2005 through...
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Improving educational pathways to social mobility: Evidence from Norway’s “Reform 94”
Discussion Papers no. 916
We study the effects of a nationwide high school reform in Norway on educational attainment, labor market participation, and earnings.
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Trade-offs between carbon sequestration, landscape aesthetics and biodiversity in a cost-benefit analysis of land use options in Norway
Discussion Papers no. 915
Norway is considering a national afforestation program for greenhouse gas (GHG) sequestration on recently abandoned semi-natural pastureland.
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Evaluating multilateral price indices in a dynamic item universe
Discussion Papers no. 914
Statistics Norway has a long history of using scanner data in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). The early research – in Norway as well as internationally – was focused on supermarket data which consists largely of stable items.
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Gambling with the family silver
Discussion Papers no. 913
In the early 2000s, eight Norwegian energy producing municipalities sold up to ten years of future electricity earnings and let two brokers from Terra Securities make investments on their behalf.
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