Does Unemployment Compensation Affect Unemployment Duration?
We use a flexible hazard rate model with unrestricted spell duration and calendar time effects to analyse a dataset including all Norwegian unemployment spells during the 1990s. The dataset provides...
Does an income tax harm economic efficiency more the more progressive it is? Public economics provides a strong case for a definite "yes." But at least three forces may pull in the other direction....
After two decades of ratcheting unemployment in Europe, most economists agree that structural changes associated with higher equilibrium rates of unemployment have occurred. But the direction of...
Egalitarian Wage Policies and Long-Term Unemployment.
How does a centrally imposed egalitarian wage policy affect unemployment when workers differ with respect to productivity? The effect on total unemployment is found to be ambiguous. Egalitarian wages...
A Note on the Weibull Distribution and Time Aggregation Bias.
The application of continuous time Weibull models on discrete unemployment duration data may result in severely biased baseline estimates. The bias can be substantial even for weekly duration data,...
Unemployment Hysteresis--Macro Evidence from 16 OECD Countries.
This paper investigates empirically the presence of unemployment hysteresis in 16 OECD countries, applying aggregate quarterly unemployment rates covering the past 25 years. Alternative test...
The Impacts of Labor Market Policies on Job Search Behavior and Post-Unemployment Job Quality
Gaure, Simen, Roed, 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...
Markussen, Simen, Roed, Knut, Røgeberg, Ole J., Gaure, Simen
Based on comprehensive administrative register data from Norway, we examine the determinants of sickness absence behavior; in terms of employee characteristics workplace characteristics, panel doctor...
Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns
Berglann, Helge, Moen, Espen R., Roed, Knut, Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik
We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of...
Entrepreneurship: Origins and Returns
Berglann, Helge, Moen, Espen R, Roed, Knut, Skogstrøm, Jens Fredrik
We examine the origins and outcome of entrepreneurship on the basis of exceptionally comprehensive Norwegian matched worker-firm-owner data. In contrast to most existing studies, our notion of...