Browsing NHH Brage by Author "Bennett, Patrick"
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Job Displacement, Unemployment, and Crime: Evidence from Danish Microdata and Reforms
Bennett, Patrick; Ouazad, Amine (DP SAM;32/2018, Working paper, 2018-12)This paper estimates the individual impact of a worker’s job loss on his/her criminal activity. Using a matched employer-employee longitudinal data set on unemployment, crime, and taxes for all residents in Denmark, the ... -
Losing in a Boom: Long-term Consequences of a Local Economic Shock for Female Labour Market Outcomes
Bennett, Patrick; Ravetti, Chiara; Wong, Po Yin (DP SAM;03/2020, Working paper, 2020-02)This paper examines the long-term labour market consequences of a positive economic shock, the first discovery of oil and gas in Norway. Existing studies focus on the short-term and men, while less is known about women and ... -
A Second Chance? Labor Market Returns to Adult Education Using School Reforms
Bennett, Patrick; Blundell, Richard; Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar (DP SAM;14/2020, Working paper, 2020-08)Roughly one third of a cohort drop out of high school across OECD countries, and developing effective tools to address prime-aged high school dropouts is a key policy question. We leverage high quality Norwegian register ... -
Why women still can’t have it all : a causal analysis of the reduction in the paternity quota on mothers’ labor participation and career prospects
Grape, Margit Abel; Toset, Kaja Karinsdatter (Master thesis, 2017)The Norwegian paternity quota was reduced from 14 to 10 weeks in 2014. This resulted in an immediate fall in the average length of fathers’ parental leave. In this paper, we investigate what effect this has had on mothers’ ...