Kjell Erik Lommerud
Biographic Data
| ID | 5738722 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kjell Erik Lommerud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kjell Erik |
| FAMILY NAME | Lommerud |
| SIGNATURE | LOMMERUD K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Your Place or Mine? On the Residence Choice of Young Couples in Norway
Norwegian registry data are used to investigate the location decisions of a full population cohort of young adults as they complete their education, establish separate households, and form their own families. We find that the labor market opportunities and family ties of both partners affect these location choices. Surprisingly, married men live significantly closer to their own parents than do married women, even if they have children, and this …
North–South technology transfer in unionised multinationals
Geography of the Family
We study the residential choice of siblings who are altruistic towards their parents. The firstborn child's location choice influences the behavior of the second-born child and can shift some of the burden of providing care for the parents from one child to the other. These strategic considerations lead to an equilibrium location pattern with firstborn children locating further away from their parents than second-born children. We also analyze th…
Union Egalitarianism as Income Insurance
It is a common observation that unions often try to compress the wage distribution among their members as compared with the productivity distribution. A troublesome aspect of standard theories of redistributive unions is the question why high-productivity workers choose to enter the union in the first place. This paper develops and explores the implications of an alternative insurance rationale for egalitarian wage objectives. Apart from providin…
Your Place or Mine? On the Residence Choice of Young Couples in Norway
Norwegian registry data are used to investigate the location decisions of a full population cohort of young adults as they complete their education, establish separate households, and form their own families. We find that the labor market opportunities and family ties of both partners affect these location choices. Surprisingly, married men live significantly closer to their own parents than do married women, even if they have children, and this …
Union Egalitarianism as Income Insurance
It is a common observation that unions often try to compress the wage distribution among their members as compared with the productivity distribution. A troublesome aspect of standard theories of redistributive unions is the question why high-productivity workers choose to enter the union in the first place. This paper develops and explores the implications of an alternative insurance rationale for egalitarian wage objectives. Apart from providin…
Union Egalitarianism as Income Insurance
It is a common observation that unions often try to compress the wage distribution among their members as compared with the productivity distribution. A troublesome aspect of standard theories of redistributive unions is the question why high-productivity workers choose to enter the union in the first place. This paper develops and explores the implications of an alternative insurance rationale for egalitarian wage objectives. Apart from providin…
Geography of the Family
We study the residential choice of siblings who are altruistic towards their parents. The firstborn child's location choice influences the behavior of the second-born child and can shift some of the burden of providing care for the parents from one child to the other. These strategic considerations lead to an equilibrium location pattern with firstborn children locating further away from their parents than second-born children. We also analyze th…
North–South technology transfer in unionised multinationals
Your Place or Mine? On the Residence Choice of Young Couples in Norway
Norwegian registry data are used to investigate the location decisions of a full population cohort of young adults as they complete their education, establish separate households, and form their own families. We find that the labor market opportunities and family ties of both partners affect these location choices. Surprisingly, married men live significantly closer to their own parents than do married women, even if they have children, and this …
Economics (3 works) · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics (2 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (2 works) · Labour economics (2 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Wage (2 works) · Welfare (2 works) · Affect (linguistics (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Cohort (1 work)