• Internal wage dispersion and firm performance : white-collar evidence 

      Hunnes, Arngrim (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-05)
      Is internal wage dispersion good for firm productivity, or do internal wage differences break the conception of fairness and cause counterproductive behavior among workers? Contrary to previous empirical work that has ...
    • Is mobility of labour a channel for spillovers from multinationals to local domestic firms? 

      Balsvik, Ragnhild (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-08)
      This paper documents the extent of labour mobility from multinationals (MNEs) to non-MNEs in Norwegian manufacturing during the 1990s. On average, each year around one percent of workers in MNEs move to non-MNEs. By the ...
    • Skill composition : exploring a wage-based skill measure 

      Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina; Skjerpen, Terje (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-04)
      This study explores a wage-based skill measure using information from a wage equation. Evidence from matched employer-employee data show that skill is attributable to variables other than educational length, for instance ...
    • Testing the role of comparative advantage and learning in wage and promotion dynamics 

      Hunnes, Arngrim (Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-09)
      Can job assignment based on comparative advantage and learning about workers’ ability explain wage and promotion dynamics within firms? In order to answer this question the Gibbons and Waldman (1999b) model is estimated in ...
    • 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 ...