Department of Economics University of Oslo MEMORANDUM

2 For comparison: Johanson and Palme (2005) evaluates a Swedish reform where the replacement rate for sickness was cut from 90 percent til 65 and 80 percent, depending on

The present model is in line with another and more recent structural discrete labour supply modelling tradition; see Dagsvik (1994), Aaberge et. As mentioned in the introduction

that a country that becomes more concerned about the environment (modeled as a positive shift in its environmental damage function) increases its R&D expenditures in order

Our finding confirms the suggestion of Huh and Sickles (1994) that the maximum likelihood estimators and maximum penalised estimators converge to each other when sample size is

Hence, from the poverty trap equilibrium the profits in production become higher relative to the profits in parasitic activities when the total number of entrepreneurs is higher..

So for Italy we will estimate and compare models both with (non-myopic) and without (myopic) the term ( ) ∆ τ. In Norway the future pension benefits are not affected at all by

While benefits can be maintained almost indefinitely in Norway (156 weeks, in many cases followed by a somewhat smaller cash-transfer), the Swedish benefit period is limited to

For females, the predicted duration of joblessness of the average 1991 entrant with 1993 coefficients (including 1993 unemployment rate) was 16 months, 2.6 per cent longer that for