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Gender Differences in Tax Evasion: Evidence from Norwegian Administrative Data
(Discussion paper;8/24, Working paper, 2024-06-18)Using the expenditure approach and administrative data on third-party reported donations, we estimate tax evasion by gender. While men are more prone to risk taking, we find no evidence of this transferring to income ... -
Gender differences in the labour market : explaining the gender wage gap : empirical evidence from Norway
(Master thesis, 2020)This master´s thesis aims to investigate potential sources of the gender wage gap using Norwegian register data on the full population. First, I seek to understand to what extent traditional human capital factors and ... -
Gender differences in the nordic mutual fund industry empirical evidence from Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
(Master thesis, 2017)In this thesis, we investigate gender difference across Nordic mutual fund managers. We analyse a data set free of survivorship bias, consisting of 430 Nordic singlemanaged mutual funds in the period January 2005 to June ... -
Gender diversity among top executives and firm financial performance : empirical evidence from Norwegian-listed firms 2010-2016
(Master thesis, 2019)There exists a gender gap in top executive positions today. Research has shown that gender diversity may have a positive impact on firm financial performance. This thesis aims to investigate the relationship between gender ... -
Gender diversity and firm performance : evidence from Norway 2010-2014
(Master thesis, 2017)The aim of this master’s thesis is to investigate the impact of gender diversity in firms on firm performance using data from Norwegian firms and municipalities. Gender diversity is measured using three regional gender ... -
Gender Diversity and Its Effects on Arms Embargo Violations : Prediction Probability of Embargo Violations With Company Board Diversity
(Master thesis, 2021)The research conducted in this report seeks to uncover the effects diversity in corporate board of directors have on the illegal sales of weapons to countries experiencing U.N arms embargoes. From our analysis and for the ... -
Gender Diversity in the Norwegian Energy Sector and its Development : A descriptive and explanatory study
(Master thesis, 2022)Using Norwegian register data accessed through microdata.no, this thesis seeks to provide a description of gender diversity in the Norwegian energy sector, and renewables specifically. Existing research on gender diversity ... -
Gender diversity, labour in the boardroom and gender quotas
(SAM DP;16/2022, Working paper, 2022-10-31)This study investigates boards of (non-executive) directors and whether employee representation has a positive effect on gender diversity on boards. We exploit rich, newly assembled board–director matched panel data for ... -
Gender equality in the boardroom : the Norwegian case of Rosa Parks? : an event study
(Master thesis, 2008)As the only country in the world, Norway recently passed a law that requires gender neutral boards in all public listed companies. Although the media attention abroad and in Norway, gorged on the controversial ruling, ... -
Gender Gaps in Leadership: The Case of Savings Groups in Uganda: How can gender gaps in leadership positions be measured and explained? Are there gender differences in the perceptions of which leaders are influential?– A Literature Review and Investigation of Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) in Uganda
(Master thesis, 2022)Village saving and loans associations (VSLAs) play critical roles in many countries, including Uganda, towards financial inclusion overall. VSLAs are critical in working towards two key components to financial inclusion: ... -
Gender Pension Gap in Norway : An Empirical Study "What are the key contributing factors affecting the pension gap?"
(Master thesis, 2023)This thesis investigates the gender disparities in pension income in context of Norwegian population, focusing on the socio-demographic factors that contribute to this gap. More specifically, this study is an empirical ... -
The Gender Wage Gap in Medicine : An empirical study on the gender wage gap among physicians in Norway
(Master thesis, 2023)This master thesis studies the gender wage gap among physicians in Norway in 2019. Further, we explore the gender wage gap using a fixed-wage variable to isolate the effect overtime pay has on the gender wage gap. We ... -
Gender wage gap studies : consistency and decomposition
(Working paper, Working paper, 2006-12)This paper reviews the empirical literature on the gender wage gap, with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in human capital wage regression models. This is of great importance in the ... -
Gender wage gap studies : consistency and decomposition
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-12)This paper reviews the empirical literature on the gender wage gap, with particular attention given to the identification of the key parameters in human capital wage regression models. This is of great importance in the ... -
Gender, Social Norms, and Entrepreneurship
(Working paper;05/15, Working paper, 2015-04)In this paper, we analyze two puzzles on entrepreneurship and gender. First, a number of field experiments in developing countries on business training and business grants have shown that it is very difficult to raise ... -
Gender-biased technological change: Milking machines and the exodus of women from farming
(Working paper, 2023-08-14)This paper studies the link between gender-biased technological change in the agricultural sector and structural transformation in Norway. After WWII, Norwegian farms began widely adopting milking machines to replace the ... -
Gender-related differences in investment decisions : through the lens of equity crowdfunding : an empirical study in collaboration with dealflow
(Master thesis, 2020)The remainder to progress towards full gender equality requires increased female presence in financial markets, in particular in investing. The need to better understand female investment decisions, in an environment ... -
A general stochastic calculus approach to insider trading
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2002-12)The purpose of this paper is to present a general stochastic calculus approach to insider trading. In a market driven by a standard Brownian motion B(t) on a filtered probability space (Ω, F, {F}t>0, P), by an insider we ... -
Generalization of age-structured bioeconomic models in theory and practice
(Working paper, Working paper, 2010-08)The harvesting functions and the stock dynamics in age-structured bioeconomic models are generalized in order to incorporate density dependence. Using this generalization anything from completely uniformly distributed fish ... -
Generation of interpersonal skills : a study of informal learning among volunteers
(Doctoral thesis, 2000)