Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192235 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 253
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
Norwegian female labour participation rates have increased steadily since the beginning of the seventies. This paper address several issues concerning female labour participation series for the period 1972-1997. The main purpose is to identify factors that explain the trend-like increase during the last 25 years and a possible cyclical component that is due to labour market conditions. The resulting relations for women in the age-groups 25-39 years and 40-59 years include long-run effects from wages, education and a significant cyclical component. The wage elasticity is the same for the two groups by restriction. For the older women (60-66 years) we find a higher wage elasticity. Children have a negative impact on the labour supply for female 25-39 years. We get no significant effects from the extension of the parental leave and day-care coverage.
Subjects: 
Female labour participation rates
discouraged worker
lifetime effects
time series.
JEL: 
C22
C32
J22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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