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Cointegration in the Norwegian Model for Wage Formation. Against the Backdrop of the 2004 EU Expansion and the 2001 Change to Inflation Targeting, Have Wage Levels in the Construction and Wholesale Undersectors Continued to Exhibit a Long-Run Relationship with Wage Levels in the Industry, Public and Private Sectors?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-05-29)
In this thesis, hourly wage rate data spanning 1978-2018 has been collected to investigate if the wage levels in the construction and wholesale sectors follow the wage levels in the industry, public, and private sectors. Against the backdrop of the EU expansion in 2004 and the 2001 implementation of inflation targeting monetary policy, there has been an interest in studying the stability of the ...
Hometown Investment Trust funds
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-05-29)
There are different challenges a small- to medium-sized enterprise when they are gathering capital, especially if they carry a lot of risk. The banks have become more stringent because of the Basel Capital Adequacy Requirements, the investors prefer to invest in safer enterprises. Japan has tried to solve this problem by implementing Hometown Investment Trust funds. Hometown Investment Trust funds ...
Power of love?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-06-02)
The detraditionalization in Norway is more marketed than in many other European countries. Women have more freedom to choose how much they want to work, what they want to study, and generally more freedom to decide how they want to live their lives. With detraditionalization, women gained more bargaining power also within the household, giving them more freedom to negotiate the equal distribution ...
Forest Illegalities and Corruption in Cameroons Forest Sector. A Theoretical and Literature Review of Corruption with Regards to Forest Illegalities
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-08-30)
In the past decades illegal logging and related forest, activities have increasingly been a global concern, especially in forest products producer countries. This phenomenon has high rates in the Cameroon forest sector caused by poverty, poor Law enforcement, lack of transparency, conflicts, state ownership of majority of forested land, and in addition to these, its high rates of corruption. ...
Seeking causal effects from a rule change. How did changing the “roughing the passer rule” in 2018 affect salaries for quarterbacks in the NFL?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-31)
Following concerns for players safety, the National Football League (NFL) chose to protect the quarterbacks (QB) further by changing the “roughing the passer rule” in 2018. This paper studies the effect this rule change had on QB salaries. This is done by applying a Difference-in-Differences approach on salary data stretching from 2013 to 2021. Our estimate show how the salary increase following the ...
The impact of Electricity insecurity on the performance of small and medium size enterprises-The case of Cameroon
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-28)
Electricity is an important resource for an economy and its demand for the last decade have witness a significant increase. This work has as aim to study the impact of electricity insecurity on the performance of small and medium scale businesses in Cameroon within the period of 1980 to 2018. The study made use of time series data within the period of the study and uses two methodological approaches; ...
Lockdown Policies, Social Distancing Behaviour, and Literacy: An Empirical Analysis of the Role of Literacy on the Spread of Covid-19
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-30)
The major concern of the world in the wake of COVID 19 is how to mitigate the severity of the infection with effective policies and making sure of the overall welfare of the society. Social distancing should be mandatory through strict government policies because unaware people do not internalize all its benefits. Individual’s awareness about social distancing behaviour is vital to reduce the spread ...
Geographical Variation of the Impact by the Covid-19 Pandemic in Norway. How much has the covid-19 pandemic affected excess mortality and excess decline in employment in Norway on a geographical level in 2020?
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-31)
This thesis investigates the geographical variation of excess mortality and excess decline in
employment, during the covid-19 pandemic in Norway. The data were collected from Statistics
Norway and The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration. The method tells you how much
the present value are greater or lesser, compared to previous years. Excess mortality and decline in
employment were ...
A chip off the old block or not? An analysis of parents' influence on their children's choice of educational field
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-05-29)
The intergenerational mobility in education length is well-documented. However, the number of people having a master’s degree in Norway has increased in the past years. An innovative study is instead to investigate the mobility for the educational fields between generations. This thesis is investigating the parents’ influence on their children’s choice of educational fields for higher education. The ...
The Sunk Cost Fallacy and Risk-Taking Behaviour. Evidence from a computer game experiment
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-05-31)
We examine whether behavioural sunk costs are related to an increased willingness to make
risky decisions. Rational agents’ decisions should not be contingent on sunk costs; however,
foregoing research suggests that individuals in fact do react to such costs. Few studies have
examined behavioural sunk costs and risk-taking with “real stakes”, which is an important
topic of research as many ...