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2013

  1. Anders Molander and Gaute Torsvik: Getting people into work: What (if anything) can justify mandatory activation of welfare recipients? (2013)
  2. Arild Aakvik, Frank Hansen and Gaute Torsvik: "Dynamic Peer Effects in Sales Teams" (2013)
  3. Arild Aakvik, Tor Helge Holmås, and Karin Monstad: "Evaluating a National Labour and Welfare Administration Reform" (2013)

2012

  1. Karsten Marshall Elseth Rieck and Kjetil Telle: "Sick Leave Before, During and After Pregnancy" (2012)
  2. Arild Aakvik, Tor Helge Holmås, Egil Kjerstad: Will Increased Capacity for Hospital Treatment Reduce Waiting Times and Sick Leave Costs? An Empirical Analysis of a Norwegian Health Policy Reform. (2012)
  3. Espen Bratberg, Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell Vaage: "Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?" (2012)
  4. Espen Bratberg and Karin Monstad: Worried Sick? Worker Responses to Organizational Turmoil. (2012)
  5. Sandra E. Black, Paul J. Devereux, Katrine V. Løken and Kjell G. Salvanes: Care or cash? The effect of child care subsidies on student performance (2012)
  6. Karsten Marshall Elseth Rieck and Kjell Vaage: Social Interaction at the Workplace: Exploring Sickness Absence Behavior. (2012)
  7. Karsten Marshall Elseth Rieck: "Does child care affect parents’ sickness absence? Evidence from a Norwegian paternity leave reform" (2012)
  8. Gordon B. Dahl, Katrine V. Løken, Magne Mogstad: "Peer Effects in Program Participation" (2012)
  9. Andreas Ravndal Kostøl and Magne Mogstad: How Financial Incentives Induce Disability Insurance Recipients to Return to Work (2012)
  10. Kjell Erik Lommerud, Odd Rune Straume, Steinar Vagstad: "Employment protection and unemployment benefits: On technology adoption and job creation in a matching model" (2012).
  11. Jasmin Häcker, Christian Hagist, Erling Vårdal "Who pays for whom? Redistributive Effects of the Norwegian Pension Reform" (2012)
  12. Løken, K. V., Bharadwaj, P. and Nielson, C.: Early Life Health Interventions and Academic Achievement, 2012.
  13. Mykletun, A, Evensen, M., Hagen, K, og Vaage, K.: Rapport etter ekspertmøtet om arsaker til kjønnsforskjeller i sykefravær. Oslo, 23.-24. november 2011, overlevert Arbeidsepartementet 29. mars 2012.
  14. Grasdal, A., Lie, S.A., Ludvigsen, K., Løvvik, C., Reme, S.E., og S. Øverland: Evaluering av senter for jobbmestring. Delrapport 3, august 2012. Uni Helse.

2011

  1. Black, S., Devereux, P., Løken, K.V. and Salvanes, K.G.: The Effect of Child Care Subsidies on Academic Performance. 2011.
  2. Christian Hagist, Bernd Raffelhüschen, Alf Erling Risa and Erling Vårdal: Long-Term Fiscal Effects of Public Pension Reform in Norway - A Generational Accounting Analysis (2011).
  3. Katrine V. Løken, Magne Mogstad and Matthew Wiswall: What Linear Estimators Miss: The Effects of Family Income on Child Outcomes (2011)
  4. Katrine V. Løken, Kjell Erik Lommerud and Shelly Lundberg: Your place or mine? On the residence choice of young couples in Norway (2011)
  5. Espen Bratberg, Karsten Marshall Elseth Rieck, Kjell Vaage Intergenerational Earnings Mobility and Divorce? (2011)
  6. Lene Lunde and Katrine V. Løken: "How are you feeling?" Assessing reporting bias in a subjective measure of health by quantile regression (2011)
  7. Grasdal, Astrid: "Folketrygdens utgifter - hvordan begrense utgiftsveksten?" Kommentar til Statsbudsjettet 2011. Arbeidsnotat (Samfunnsøkonomen, nr. 8, 2010).
  8. Johansen, J. og Løken, K.V.: "Økonomisk registerforskning på likestillingseffekter av velferdstiltak og familiepolitikk." Rapport skrevet på oppdrag fra Likestillingsutvalget, August 2011.
  9. Vaage, Kjell: "Er 100 prosent løsningen? Erfaringer fra Norge." I Mellan arbete och sjukdom, Socialförsäkringsrapport 2011:3, Försäkringskassan, Sverige.

2010

  1. Espen Bratberg, Tor Helge Holmås, M. Kamrul Islam and Kjell Vaage: "Teachers’ Sickness Absence in Primary Schools: A Panel Data Multilevel Analysis" (2010)
  2. Astrid Grasdal og Karin Monstad: Inequity in the use of physician services in Norway before and after introducing patient lists in primary care. Working paper series in Social Insurance 99, University of Bergen (2010).
  3. Kjell Erik Lommerud, Frode Meland and Odd Rune Straume: Mergers and capital flight in unionised oligopolies: is there scope for a 'national champion' policy? Working paper series in Social Insurance, University of Bergen (2010).
  4. Kjell Erik Lommerud og Odd Rune Straume: Enployment protection versus flexicurity: on technology adoption in unionized firms. Working paper series in Social Insurance, University of Bergen (2010).
  5. Carneiro, P., Løken, K.V. and Salvanes, K.G.: A Flying Start? Long Term Consequences of Time Investments in Children During Their First Year of Life. Working Paper 06/10, Dept of Economics, University of Bergen. 2010.

2009

  1. Espen Bratberg and Ghazala Naz: "Does paternity leave affect mothers`sickness abscence?" (2009)

2008

  1. Øivind Anti Nilsen, Kjell Vaage, Arild Aakvik og Karl Åge Jacobsen: "Sources of Measurement Errors in Earnings Data: New Estimates of Intergenerational Mobility in Norway." (2008)
  2. Arild Aakvik, Tor Helge Holmås, M. Kamrul Islam: "Does variation in GP practice matter for the length of sick leave? A multilevel analysis based on Norwegian GP-patient data" (2008)
  3. Astrid L. Grasdal, Karin Monstad: "Inequity in the use of physician services in Norway. Changing patterns over time?" (2008)
  4. Astrid L. Grasdal, Karin Monstad: "Sosial ulikhet i fordelingen av helsetjenester, målemetoder og empiriske funn". (2008)
  5. Astrid Grasdal: "Inntektsulikhet og sosiale helseforskjeller, teorier og empiri". (2008)

2007

  1. Espen Bratberg, Øivind A. Nilsen, and Kjell Vaage: "Job losses and child outcomes" (2007)
  2. Espen Bratberg, Sturla Gjesdal, and John Gunnar Mæland: "Individual and contextual predictors of permanent disability after sickness absence with psychiatric diagnoses: Population based prospective cohort study" (2007)
  3. Benedicte Carlsen, and Arild Aakvik: "Patient involvement in clinical decision-making: The effect of GP attitude on patient satisfaction." (2007)
  4. Benedicte Carlsen, Arild Aakvik, and Ole Frithjof Norheim: "Variation in practice: A questionnaire survey of how congruence in attitudes between doctors and patients influence referral decisions." (2007)
  5. Katrine Vellesen Løken: "Family income and children's education: Using the Norwegian oil boom as a natural experiment." (2007)
  6. Ghazala Naz: "Child-care in Norway: Use of parental leave by fathers" (2007)
  7. Kurt Brekke, Astrid Grasdal and Tor Helge Holmås: "Regulation and Pricing of Pharmaceuticals: Reference Pricing or Price Cap Regulation?" (2007)
  8. Ingvild Pedersen: Private helseforsikringar - status og betydning for utvikling i sosiale helseskilnader." (2007)
  9. Espen Bratberg, Svenn-Åge Dahl, Astrid Grasdal, Tor Helge Holmås, Kjell Vaage, Arild Aakvik: "Kunnskapsoversikt om insentiv- og fordelingsvirkninger av trygdeordninger for midlertidig inntektssikring ved sykdom, rehabilitering, attføring og uførhet" (2007)
  10. Joackim Kurtzhals: Tittel TBA. (2007)
  11. Svenn-Åge Dahl, Frode Skjeret og Tor Helge Holmås: "Attitudes towards sickness absence in the Nordic countries." (2007)
  12. Espen Bratberg and Kjell Vaage: "Applications and awards for disability pensions: The Norwegian case." (2007)

2006

  1. Jan Erik Askildsen and Tor Helge Holmås: "Wages and work conditions as determinants for physicians' work decisions" (2006)
  2. Ghazala Naz: "The labour supply of native and immigrant mothers in Norway" (2006)
  3. Espen Bratberg, Kjell G. Salvanes and Kjell Vaage: "Has job stability decreased in Norway?" (2006)
  4. Ghazala Naz: "Effect of cash-benefit reform on immigrants' labour supply and earnings" (2006)
  5. Espen Bratberg, Øivind A. Nilsen, Kjell G. Salvanes og Kjell Vaage: "Innspel til 'Arbeidsinkluderingsmeldinga'." (2006)
  6. Sturla Gjesdal, John Gunnar Mæland, and Espen Bratberg: "Musculoskeletal impairments and disability among women and men in the Norwegian working population: a multi-register based study 1997-2002." (2006)
  7. Astrid Grasdal: "Inntektsulikhet og sosiale helseforskjeller. En kunnskapsoversikt." (2006)

2005

  1. Arild Aakvik, Kjell Gunnar Salvanes and Kjell Vaage: "Educational Attainment and Family Background." (2005)
  2. Arild Aakvik og Tor Helge Holmås: "Access to Primary Health Care and Health Outcomes: The Relationships between GP Characteristics and Mortality Rates." (2005)
  3. Tor Helge Holmås og Oddvar Kaarbøe: "Is There a Demand Response by Patients in Primary Care?" (2005)
  4. Jarle Møen, Kjell G. Salvanes og Kjell Vaage: "Kva er kostnadene ved omstilling?" (2005)
  5. Espen Bratberg, Kjell G. Salvanes og Kjell Vaage: "Avtakande jobbstabilitet i Noreg?" (2005)

2004

  1. Arild Aakvik and Tor Helge Holmås: "The relationship between economic conditions, access to health care, and health outcomes." (2004)
  2. Arild Aakvik and Svenn-Åge Dahl: "Transitions to employment from labour market enterprises in Norway." (2004)
  3. Josef Honerkamp, Stefan Moog og Bernd Raffelhüschen: "Earlier or Later: A General Equilibrium Analysis of Bringing Forward an Already Announced Tax Reform." (2004)
  4. Jan Erik Askildsen og Tor Helge Holmås: "Wages and work conditions as determinants for physicians work decisions." (2004)
  5. Arild Aakvik, Svenn-Dahl og Kjell Vaage: "Late careers and career exits in Norway." (2004)
  6. Espen Bratberg, Øivind Anti Nilsen og Kjell Vaage: "Intergenerational Mobility: Trends Across the Earnings Distribution." (2004)

2003

  1. Arild Aakvik, Kjell Gunnar Salvanes and Kjell Vaage: "Measuring the Heterogeneity in the Returns to Education." (2003)
  2. Badi H. Baltagi, Espen Bratberg, and Tor Helge Holmås: "A panel data study of physicians labor supply: The case of Norway." (2003)

2002

  1. Arild Aakvik and Egil Kjerstad: "Skill formation among vocational rehabilitation clients public policy vs private incentives." (2002)
  2. Svenn-Åge Dahl, Øivind Anti Nilsen and Kjell Vaage: "Gender differences in early retirement behaviour." (2002)
  3. Jan Erik Askildsen, Espen Bratberg and Øivind Anti Nilsen: "Unemployment, labour force composition and sickness absence. A panel data study." (2002)
  4. Arild Aakvik, Tor Helge Holmås and Egil Kjerstad: "A low-key social insurance reform Treatment effects for back pain patients in Norway." (2002)
  5. Sigve Tjøtta and Kjell Vaage: "Public transfers and marital dissolution." (2002)
  6. Espen Bratberg and Sigve Tjøtta: "Income effects of divorce in families with dependent children." (2002)
  7. Espen Bratberg, Øivind Anti Nilsen and Kjell Vaage: "Assessing changes in intergenerational earnings mobility." (2002)
  8. Ghazala Naz: "Determinants of fertility in Norway." (2002)
  9. Ghazala Naz, Øivind Anti Nilsen and Steinar Vagstad: "Education and completed fertility in Norway." (2002)
  10. Ghazala Naz: "Education and the quality-quantity trade-off in Pakistani womens fertility decisions." (2002)
  11. Ghazala Naz: "The impact of a cash benefit reform on parents labour force participation." (2002)

2001

  1. Astrid Grasdal: "The performance of sample selection estimators to control for attrition bias." (2001)
  2. Astrid Grasdal: "The empirical importance of randomisation bias in the Bergen experiments." (2001)
  3. Astrid Grasdal: "Unemployment persistence among young labour market entrants." (2001)
  4. Sturla Gjesdal and Espen Bratberg: "The role of gender in long-term sickness absence and transition to permanent disability benefits. Results from a multiregister based, prospective study in Norway 1990-1995." (2001)
  5. Sigve Tjøtta and Kjell Vaage: "Marital Disruption in Norway." (2001)
  6. Bernd Raffelhüschen: "Generational Accounting - Quo Vadis?" (2001)
  7. Sturla Gjesdal and Espen Bratberg: "Diagnosis and duration in sickness-absence as predictors for disability pension." (2001)

2000

  1. Torunn S. Nilsen and Alf Erling Risa: "Duration in Work after Leaving School." (2000)
  2. Espen Bratberg, Astrid Grasdal, and Alf Erling Risa: "Evaluation in a Changing Welfare State: Experiments and Accumulation of Knowledge." (2000) (revised version 2001)
  3. Jan Erik Askildsen, Espen Bratberg, and Øivind Anti Nilsen: "Sickness Absence over the Business Cycle." (2000)
  4. Espen Bratberg, Tor Helge Holmås, and Øystein Thøgersen: "Assessing the Effects of Early Retirement Programs." (2000) (revised version 2002)
  5. Espen Bratberg and Alf Erling Risa: Insentivvirkninger i helserelaterte stønadsordninger (2000)

1999

  1. Tone Ingrid Tysse and Kjell Vaage: "Unemployment of Older Norwegian Workers: A Competing Risk Analysis." (1999)
  2. Arild Aakvik: "Bounding a Matching Estimator: The Case of a Norwegian Training Program." (1999)
  3. Arild Aakvik: "Estimating the Employment Effects of Education for Disabled Workers in Norway." (1999)
  4. Arild Aakvik: "Assessing the Effects of Labor Market Training in Norway." (1999)
  5. Arild Aakvik, James J. Heckman and Edward J. Vytlacil: "Training Effects on Employment when the Training Effects are Heterogenous: An Application to Norwegian Vocational Rehabilitation Programs." (1999)
  6. Espen Bratberg, Svenn-Åge Dahl and Alf Erling Risa: "'The Double Burden' - Are Modern Females Overworked by Career and Family?" (1999)
  7. Espen Bratberg and Øivind Anti Nilsen: "Transitions from School to Work: Search Time and Job Duration." (1999)
  8. Alf Erling Risa: "Funding Social Insurance in Norway." (1999)
  9. Svenn-Åge Dahl, Øyvind A. Nilsen and Kjell Vaage: "Work or Retirement? Exit Routes for Norwegian Elderly." (1999)
  10. Bernd Raffelhüschen: "Generational accounting in Europe." (1999)
  11. Bernd Raffelhüschen: "Aging and Intergenerational Equity: From PAYGO to Funded Pension Systems." (1999)
  12. Bernd Raffelhüschen: "Aging, Fiscal Policy and Social Insurance: A European Perspective." (1999)
  13. Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Bernd Raffelhüschen: "Generational Accounting Around the Globe." (1999)

1998

  1. Alf Erling Risa: "Family Policy in Norway" (1998)
  2. Alf Erling Risa: "Kva skal vi gjera med alle pengane våre?" (1998)

1997

  1. Kjell Erik Lommerud: "Lønnsdannelse, lønnsforskjeller og kvinnelønn." (1997)
  2. Holger Bonin, Bernd Raffelhüschen and Jan Walliser: "Can Immigration Alleviate the Demographic Burden?" (1997)

1996

  1. Espen Bratberg and Kjell Vaage: "Spell Duration and Long Unemployment Insurance Periods." (1996)
  2. Espen Bratberg: "Sickness Duration and Disability Eligibility." (1996)
  3. Alf Erling Risa and Alf Torstensen: "Staying or Leaving: Transitions from Work among Norwegian Youths." (1996)

1995

  1. Espen Bratberg: "Short Run Exits from Long Term Sickness." (1995)
  2. Alf Erling Risa: "Economic Evaluation of Vocational Rehabilitation Programs." (1995)
  3. Alf Erling Risa: "The Welfare State as Provider of Accident Insurance in The Workplace: Efficiency and Distribution in Equilibrium. Technical Appendix." (1995)
  4. Arild Aakvik and Alf Erling Risa: "Success or Selection in Vocational Rehabilitation Programs." (1995)
  5. Bernd Raffelhüschen and Alf Erling Risa: "Generational Accounting and Intergenerational Welfare." (1995)
  6. Alf Erling Risa: "Objectives and Strategies in the Development of the Norwegian Welfare State." (1995)
  7. Bernd Raffelhüschen: "A Note on Intertemporal and Gender-specific Redistribution in Generational Accounting." (1995)

1994

  1. Alf Erling Risa: "Adverse Incentives from Improved Technology: Traffic Safety Regulation in Norway." (1994)
  2. Alf Erling Risa: "Preference Revelation in Strict Liability Product Safety Markets." (1994)
  3. Alf Erling Risa: "The Welfare State as Provider of Accident Insurance in The Workplace: Efficiency and Distribution in Equilibrium." (1994)
  4. Espen Bratberg and Alf Erling Risa: "Technological Diffusion through Profit Seeking and Epidemic Information Processes." (1994)
  5. Espen Bratberg: "Preference Revelation in Disability Insurance." (1994)
  6. Bernd Raffelhüschen and Alf Erling Risa: "Reforming Social Security in a Small Open Economy." (1994)
  7. Sjur Didrik Flåm and Alf Erling Risa: "Market Insurance, Social Insurance, and Education." (1994)
  8. Jan Erik Askildsen: "Providing Incentives through Decentralized Social Insurance." (1994)
  9. Alf Erling Risa: "Product Safety Regulation and Social Insurance." (1994)
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