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A European-Type Wage Equation from an American-Style Labor Market: Evidence from a Panel of Norwegian Manufacturing Industries in the 1930s
Bårdsen, Gunnar; Doornik, Jurgen; Klovland, Jan Tore (Working Papers;4/2004, Working paper, 2004)Using a newly constructed panel of manufacturing industry data for interwar Norway, we estimate a long-run wage curve for the 1930s that has all the modern features of being homogeneous in prices, proportional to productivity, ... -
Contributions to a History of Prices in Norway: Monthly Price Indices, 1777-1920
Klovland, Jan Tore (Working Papers;23/2013, Working paper, 2013)This study reports the outcome of an effort to collect market price data for Norway with a view to constructing monthly price indices from the year 1777 to 1920. The material covers data on commodity prices from agriculture, ... -
Measuring Trends and Cycles in Industrial Production in Norway 1896-1948
Klovland, Jan Tore (Working Papers;18/2015, Working paper, 2015)This paper presents new indices for industrial production in Norway covering the years 1896-1948. Separate annual and monthly indices of gross output and labour productivity are computed for 45 manufacturing and mining ... -
The Decentralised Central Bank: Regional Bank Rate Autonomy in Norway, 1850-1892
Klovland, Jan Tore; Øksendal, Lars Fredrik (Working Papers;20/2015, Working paper, 2015)Before 1893 the regional branches of Norges Bank set their own bank rates. We discuss how bank rate autonomy could be reconciled with the fixed exchange rate commitments of the silver and gold standard. Although the ...