Browsing Økonomisk institutt by Title
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)In this article, we document and discuss salient features of collective bargaining systems in the OECD countries, with the goal of debunking some misconceptions and myths and revitalizing the general interest in wage setting ...
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(Doctoral thesis / Doktoravhandling, 2021)Due to increasing inequality and government debt, taxation is at the forefront of both academic and policy debates. With this in mind, the criteria economists use to evaluate tax policies are crucial. Typically, the criterion ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2007)Fairtrade means among other things that farmers from poor countries receive a guaranteed minimum price for their produce, or that workers receive a minimum wage, that they have good working conditions, and that production ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)This thesis explores the effects of religious discrimination on bilateral trade. Religion has permeated most societies throughout time, and this is not the first research to suggest that religious factors might have an ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Formålet med denne oppgaven er å se på hvordan sosio-økonomiske forhold som familie-bakgrunn påvirker utdanningsnivået. Jeg vil spesielt rette fokus på virkninger av foreldrenes utdanning og deres økonomiske ressurser. ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)I review methods for projecting the family structure of a population into the future. The focus is on Western countries. I define the concept of “family”, and stress the close link between family and household. There is ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This paper will look at the business side of football, how clubs generate income, how income is distributed between competing clubs, and how this distribution affects the utility for the fans, who are the end consumers in ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)In 2015, the world community adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at a United Nation Summit. One of the goals, is to end hunger and to achieve food security for the poor by 2030. This paper will review existing ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2003)SAMMENDRAG Ved innføringen av fastlegeordningen ble ordningen med kommunalt ansatte tilsynsleger på sykehjem og leger på helsestasjon og i skolehelsetjenesten videreført. Legers arbeid innen disse feltene kalles gjerne ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)Competition between heterogeneous participants leads to low-effort provision in contests. A principal can divide her fixed budget between skill-enhancing training and the contest prize. Training can reduce heterogeneity, ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)Formålet med denne oppgaven er å studere inntektsulikhet, med spesielt fokus på økonomisk fattigdom. Tidligere inntektsulikhets- og fattigdomsstudier har ofte tatt utgangspunkt i et standard inntektsbegrep basert på ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)The paper presents an adjusted Faustmann Rule for optimal harvest of a forest when there is a social cost of carbon emissions. The theoretical framework takes account of the dynamics and interactions of forests’ multiple ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)For the last 20 years deployment of variable renewable energy (VRE) sources such as wind and solar have increased rapidly. The high growth rates of investment have been largely credited to the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) policy ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2016)This thesis addresses the effect of fertility on female empowerment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Estimating the impact of fertility on female empowerment is difficult because of endogeneity and omitted variables bias. I use ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)A majority of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in poor countries target women. There have been several suggestions claiming that women are better loan clients, since they take less risk and to a larger degree repay on time. ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2002)Et av de mest slående trekkene ved konflikten mellom Palestina og Israel, er bruken av selvmord som politisk virkemiddel. Selvmordsdrap er en ekstrem handling som tar opp i seg sentrale elementer i konflikten. Bak fenomenet ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2022)There is still no consensus on how to assess intergenerational allocations when endogenous population size is considered. The two most prominent criteria – total and average utilitarianism – have, respectively, assigned ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Objectives: Life course influences on later life depression may include parenting trajectories. We investigate associations between number and timing of births and use of antidepressant medication in late mid-life using ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2011)In this thesis I use Zambia as a country case to discuss the role small-scale agriculture can play in achieving the MDG no. 1 on halving the proportion of people suffering from hunger. Within the field of agricultural ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)This thesis, though twofold, focuses on the financial accelerator, procyclical credit and the counter cyclicality of banks interest margins. All analysis and data transformations were undertaken in either Oxmetrics (PcGive) ...