• Social origins of a work ethic : norms, mobility and urban unemployment 

      Kolstad, Ivar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-03)
      Neighbourhood effects and worker mobility have been proposed as explanations for the pattern of employment in cities. This paper presents a the oretical framework within which the joint impact of these two factors can ...
    • Social security and future generations 

      Thøgersen, Øystein; Fehr, Hans (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-12)
      We survey the effects of social security in the form of mandatory public pension programs on the intergenerational distribution of tax burdens, income, various risks and welfare. The first part considers basic theoretical ...
    • Social security reforms and early retirement 

      Fehr, Hans; Sterkeby, Wenche Irén; Thøgersen, Øystein (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2000-09)
      In order to stimulate labor market participation and improve the financial viability of the social security systems, many recent reform proposals in various OECD economies suggest to scale down the non-actuarial parts ...
    • Socioeconomic Status and Physicians’ Treatment Decisions 

      Brekke, Kurt R.; Holmås, Tor Helge; Monstad, Karin; Straume, Odd Rune (Discussion paper;12/15, Working paper, 2015-06)
      This paper aims at shedding light on the social gradient by studying the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and provision of health care. Using administrative data on services provided by General Practitioners ...
    • Solidarity and Fairness in Times of Crisis 

      Cappelen, Alexander W.; Falch, Ranveig; Sørensen, Erik Ø.; Tungodden, Bertil (DP SAM;06/2020, Working paper, 2020-05-14)
      In a large-scale pre-registered survey experiment with a representative sample of more than 8,000 Americans, we examine how the COVID-19 pandemic causally affects people’s solidarity and fairness. We randomly manipulate ...
    • Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics 

      Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-11)
      People seem to be motivated by moral ideas and in this paper I discuss how we should take this into account in positive and normative economics. I review alternative ways of modelling moral motivation and reasoning in ...
    • Some reflections on the role of moral reasoning in economics 

      Tungodden, Bertil (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003)
      People seem to be motivated by moral ideas and in this paper I discuss how we should take this into account in positive and normative economics. I review alternative ways of modelling moral motivation and reasoning in ...
    • Sources of earnings dispersion in a linked employer-employee dataset : evidence from Norway 

      Salvanes, Kjell Gunnar; Lane, Julia; Burgess, Simon (Discussion paper, Working paper, 1998-09)
      We estimate a standard human capital earnings model, augmented to allow for different firmspecific wage premia. The earnings of an individual depend on her human capital bundle and the earnings mark-up of the firm she ...
    • Sources of measurement errors in earnings data : new estimates of intergenerational elasticities 

      Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell; Aakvik, Arild; Jacobsen, Karl Åge (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)
      Using Norwegian intergenerational data with a substantial part of the life-cycle earnings of children and almost the entire life-cycle earnings for their fathers, we present new estimates of intergenerational mobility. ...
    • Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty 

      Kvamsdal, Sturla Furunes; Groves, Theodore (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-06)
      Spatial management of a fishery under parameter uncertainty is analyzed. The habitat is divided into two areas, and the effort level in the two areas may be different. The migration of biomass between the areas follows a ...
    • Spillovers from US monetary policy: Evidence from a time-varying parameter GVAR model 

      Crespo Cuaresma, Jesus; Doppelhofer, Gernot; Feldkircher, Martin; Huber, Florian (DP SAM;31/2018, Working paper, 2018-12-21)
      This paper develops a global vector autoregressive (GVAR) model with time-varying parameters and stochastic volatility to analyze whether international spillovers of US monetary policy have changed over time. The proposed ...
    • Sticks and carrots for the alleviation of long-term poverty 

      Schroyen, Fred; Torsvik, Gaute (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2001-12)
      Work requirements can make it easier to screen the poor from the nonpoor. They can also affect future poverty by changing the poors’ incentive to invest in their income capacity. The novelty of our study is the focus ...
    • Strategic bank monitoring and firms’ debt structure 

      Kristiansen, Eirik Gaard (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2005-10)
      Firms choose debt structure and competing banks choose monitoring intensity. Monitoring improves credit allocation, but creates informational lock-in effects in bank-borrower relationships. In a competitive credit market, ...
    • Strategic investments with spillovers, vertical integration and foreclosure in the broadband access market 

      Foros, Øystein (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-06)
      We analyse competition between two firms (ISPs) in the retail market for broadband access. One of the firms is vertically integrated and controls the input market for local access. The vertically integrated firm undertakes ...
    • Strategy and hegemony in chemical tanker shipping, 1960-1985 

      Tenold, Stig; Murphy, Hugh (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-01)
      The article analyses the emergence of chemical shipping as a specialized shipping segment. In the 1950s and 1960s seaborne transport of chemicals was characterized by rapid technological development. This was based on ...
    • Striking the balance : economics and the environment 

      Sandmo, Agnar (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-10)
      The environment has many of the properties that economists associate with the concept of a public good. It has long been realized that, if left to itself, the market economy is likely to lead to an undersupply of public ...
    • Swallow this: Childhood and Adolescent Exposure to Fast Food Restaurants, BMI, and Cognitive Ability 

      Abrahamsson, Sara; Bütikofer, Aline; Karbownik, Krzysztof (SAM DP;07/2023, Working paper, 2023-05-06)
      Using spatial and temporal variation in openings of fast food restaurants in Norway between 1980 and 2007, we study the effects of changes in the supply of high caloric nutrition on the health and cognitive ability of young ...
    • Symmetric tax competition under formula apportionment 

      Eggert, Wolfgang; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-01)
      This paper compares property taxation to a corporate income tax based on formula apportionment in a model where identical countries compete to attract capital. We find that if countries can pair a residence-based capital ...
    • Tacit collusion and international commodity taxation 

      Haufler, Andreas; Schjelderup, Guttorm (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-01)
      The paper employs a model of dynamic price competition to study how international commodity taxation affects the stability of collusive agreements when producers in an international duopoly agree not to export into ...
    • Take it or leave it : optimal transfer programs, monitoring and takeup 

      Jacquet, Laurence (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-02)