• The evolution of the gender wage gap 

      Kunze, Astrid (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-01)
      In this paper we investigate when the male-female wage differential arises: Does it evolve over the early career or does it exist right from entry into first employment? For the analysis we use new administrative ...
    • Exploring the contributions of human and social capital to productivity 

      Greve, Arent; Benassi, Mario; Sti, Arne Dag (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-10)
      This paper investigates how human and social capital contribute to individual productivity. We study three firms that complete all their tasks in projects. The employees in all firms initiate and organize their projects. ...
    • Human capital accumulation and migration in a peripheral EU region : the case of Basilicata 

      Coniglio, Nicola D.; Prota, Francesco (Working paper, Working paper, 2003-09)
      The ability of a regional system to generate human capital is crucial, but it is not a sufficient condition leading to economic success. In this work we emphasise the importance of maintaining and attracting highly skilled ...
    • Innovation, human capital and exogenous shocks 

      Knudsen, Eirik Sjåholm; Lien, Lasse B. (Working paper;33/13, Working paper, 2013-12)
      Strategic entrepreneurship is about the simultaneous exploitation of existing advantages and the creation and exploitation of new opportunities. These are often referred to as the strategy-and the entrepreneurship dimension, ...
    • Is mobility of technical personnel a source of R&D spillovers? 

      Møen, Jarle (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-03)
      Labor mobility is often considered to be an important source of knowledge externalities, making it difficult for firms to appropriate returns to R&D investments. In this paper, I argue that inter-firm transfers of knowledge ...
    • Spin-offs and spillovers : tracing knowledge by following employees across firms 

      Møen, Jarle (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002)
      Most R&D projects fail from a commercial point of view, and technological shifts may quickly turn even successful innovations into failure. It is, however, possible that projects which fail commercially produce knowledge ...
    • The family gap in career progression 

      Kunze, Astrid (Discussion paper;29/14, Working paper, 2014-08)
      This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because of children. We use 1987-1997 Norwegian panel data that contain information on individuals’ position ...
    • Work and wage dynamics around childbirth 

      Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid (Discussion paper;4/2012, Working paper, 2012-03)
      This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of women who are well-established in the labour market. We estimate a flexible fixed-effects wage regression model extended by post-childbirth ...