Knut Røed

Reluctant Recyclers: Social Interaction in Responsibility Ascription (2008)

Kjell Arne Brekke, Karine Nyborg, The Frisch, Centre Economic, F. R. Førsund, ...

Model selection for monetary policy analysis – How important is empirical validity?

Unemployment duration and unemployment insurance: A comparative analysis based on Scandinavian micro data (2008)

Røed, Knut, Jensen, Peter, Thoursie, Anna

Based on pooled register data from Norway and Sweden, we find that differences in unemployment duration patterns reflect dissimilarities in unemployment insurance (UI) systems in a way that...

Unemployment duration and unemployment insurance: a comparative analysis based on Scandinavian micro data (2008)

Røed, Knut, Jensen, Peter, Thoursie, Anna

Based on pooled register data from Norway and Sweden, we find that differences in unemployment duration patterns reflect dissimilarities in unemployment insurance (UI) systems in a way that...

In co-operation with (2007)

Knut Røed, Tao Zhang

Labour Market Transitions and Economic Incentives By Knut Røed and Tao Zhang * Building on register data describing monthly labour market status for the whole Nor-wegian population 1992-95, we...

Marital sorting, household labour supply, and intergenerational mobility across countries (2007)

Raaum, Oddbjørn, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Österbacka, Eva, Eriksson, Tor, Jäntti, Markus, ...

We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...

Nonlinearities in intergenerational earnings mobility: consequences for cross-country comparisons (2006)

Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Jäntti, Markus, Eriksson, Tor, ...

We show that the patterns of intergenerational earnings mobility in Denmark, Finland, and Norway, unlike those for the US and the UK, are highly nonlinear. The Nordic relationship between log...

American exceptionalism in a new light: a comparison of intergenerational earnings mobility in the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom and the United States (2005)

Jäntti, Markus, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Raaum, Oddbjørn, Naylor, Robin, Österbacka, Eva, ...

We develop methods and employ similar sample restrictions to analyse differences in intergenerational earnings mobility across the United States, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Finland, Norway and...

Have the relative employment prospects for the low-skilled deteriorated after all?

Knut Røed, Morten Nordberg

Has the relative unemployment propensity for the low-skilled increased during the 1990’s? We address this question empirically, based on two notions of ‘low skills’; i) low education, and ii)...

Organizational Change, Absenteeism, and Welfare Dependency

Knut Røed, Elisabeth Fevang

Based on Norwegian register data, we set up a multivariate mixed proportional hazard model (MMPH) to analyze nurses’ pattern of work, sickness absence, nonemployment, and social insurance...

Young and out: An application of a prospects-based concept of social exclusion

Raaum, Oddbjørn, Rogstad, Jon, Røed, Knut, Westlie, Lars

We develop a forward-looking empirical concept of social exclusion based on the estimated transition probabilities from a random effects multinominal Logit-model. Youths are considered socially...

When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State

Bernt Bratsberg, Oddbjørn Raaum, Knut Røed

The lifecycle employment profiles of minority labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s diverge significantly from those of native comparison persons. During the early years, employment in...

What Hides Behind the Rate of Unemployment? Micro Evidence from Norway

Knut Røed, Tao Zhang

Building on a complete account of registered unemployment spells in Norway, we study how the composition of unemployment has developed over the last ten years. The total volume of unemployment has...

The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality

Gaure, Simen, Røed, Knut, Westlie, Lars

We examine empirically the impacts of labor market policies – in terms of unemployment insurance (UI) and active labor market programs (ALMP) – on the duration and outcome of job search and on...

Unemployment Insurance in Welfare States: Soft Constraints and Mild Sanctions

Røed, Knut, Westlie, Lars

Based on a sequence of reforms in the Norwegian unemployment insurance (UI) system, we show that activity-oriented UI regimes - i.e., regimes with a high likelihood of required participa-tion in...

Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

Raaum, Oddbjørn, Bratsberg, Bernt, Røed, Knut, Österbacka , Eva, Eriksson, Tor, Jäntti, Markus, ...

We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...

Informal Care and Labor Supply

Fevang, Elisabeth, Kvrendokk, Snorre, Røed, Knut

Based on Norwegian register data we show that having a lone parent in the terminal phase of life significantly affects the offspring’s labor market activity. The employment propen-sity declines by...

Organisational Change, Absenteeism and Welfare Dependency

Røed, Knut, Fevang, Elisabeth

In this report the authors show that recent attempts to reorganise and cut costs in the Norwegian health care and social services sectors have had the unintended side effects of raising the level of...

A model for supply of informal care to elderly parents

Fevang, Elisabeth, Kverndokk, Snorre, Røed, Knut

This paper presents a model of informal care to parents. We assume that the child participates in the labour market and gains in utility from consumption and leisure. In addition it has altruistic...

Marital Sorting, Household Labor Supply, and Intergenerational Earnings Mobility across Countries

Oddbjørn Raaum, Bernt Bratsberg, Knut Røed, Eva Österbacka, Tor Eriksson, Markus Jäntti, ...

We present comparable evidence on intergenerational earnings mobility for Denmark, Finland, Norway, the UK and the US, with a focus on the role of gender and marital status. We confirm that earnings...