• Age discrimination in hiring decisions : a comparison of Germany and Norway 

      Büsch, Victoria; Dahl, Svenn-Åge; Dittrich, Dennis A.V. (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-12)
      The workforce in all industrialized countries is aging. To forecast future challenges, it is important to understand the impact of a worker’s age on the labor market. In this paper, we analyze whether older workers in ...
    • Gender differences in early retirement behaviour 

      Dahl, Svenn-Åge; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell (Working Paper, Working paper, 2002-05)
      In this paper we analyse early retirement for men and women focusing on family characteristics such as marital status, spouse income and wealth, and spouses' labour market status. The female participation rate is high in ...
    • Late careers and career exits in Norway 

      Aakvik, Arild; Dahl, Svenn-Åge; Vaage, Kjell (Working paper, Working paper, 2005-08)
      We used matched employer-employee data for the period 1992-1997 to analyse the transition from work to early retirement in Norway. We focus on the effect of a new early retirement scheme ("AFP") of which some 60 percent ...
    • Transitions to employment from labour market enterprises in Norway 

      Aakvik, Arild; Dahl, Svenn-Åge (Working paper, Working paper, 2004-12)
      We analyse a labour market programme for partly disabled workers that involves the transition from Labour Market Enterprises to a job in the ordinary labour market. We find that the percentage of these people finding jobs ...