Henning Finseraas

• Finseraas, Henning (2019). Social democratic representation and welfare spending: A quantitative case study. Political Science Research and Methods. . doi: 10.1017/psrm.2019.36 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  The welfare state literature argues that Social Democratic party representation is of key importance for welfare state outcomes. However, few papers are able to separate the influence of parties from voter preferences, which implies that the partisan effects will be overstated. I study a natural experiment to identify a partisan effect. In 1995, the Labour Party (Ap) in the Norwegian municipality of Flå filed their candidate list too late and could not participate in the local election. Ap was the largest party in Flå in the entire post-World War period, but have not regained this position. I use the synthetic control method to study the effects on welfare spending priorities. I find small and insignificant partisan effects.

• Finseraas, Henning (2019). Understanding the education gap in immigration preferences across countries over time: A decomposition approach. Electoral Studies.  61, s 1- 12 . doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2019.102061 Show summary

  The structure and dynamics of the education gap in immigration preferences are not well understood. Does the gap increase when the economy contracts? To what extent does the gap reflect labour market conflicts versus value polarization? Does the structure of the gap change with labour market and refugee shocks? I use European Social Survey data to decompose the gap into parts reflecting labour market position, social background, and value orientation, and explore how their importance in accounting for the gap change over time. I find no uniform trends in preferences or in the size of the gap, but the gap varies with the unemployment rate and the strength of trade unions. Moreover, positions in the labour market are more important for the gap in times of high unemployment, at the expense of the importance of value orientations. The results show the enduring importance of labour market conflicts for the gap.

• Finseraas, Henning; Hanson, Torbjørn; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd; Kotsadam, Andreas & Torsvik, Gaute (2019). Trust, ethnic diversity, and personal contact: A field experiment. Journal of Public Economics.  173, s 72- 84 . doi: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2019.02.002 Full text in Research Archive.
• Finseraas, Henning; Røed, Marianne & Schøne, Pål (2019). Labour immigration and union strength. European Union Politics (EUP).  21(1), s 3- 23 . doi: 10.1177/1465116519881194 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity and low unionisation among labour immigrants is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be severe if immigration affects natives’ unionisation. We use Norwegian administrative data in a natural experiment framework to examine this claim. The 2004 European Union expansion led to a rapid increase in labour migration to the building and construction industry, but licensing demands protected some workers from the labour supply shock.We show negative labour market effects for workers exposed to labour immigration, but no effect on union membership. Our results question theories of unionisation and are relevant for research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action.

• Finseraas, Henning & Skorge, Øyvind Søraas (2019). “The Miracle Tablet Maybe”: Legalization of the Pill and Women’s Childbearing and Career Decisions. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society.  26(2), s 276- 298 . doi: 10.1093/sp/jxz005 Show summary

  A substantial literature argues that the legalization of the birth control pill in the United States reduced fertility and enhanced career investments. This study questions whether the broader effects hold across contexts. We use administrative data to study the Norwegian legalization of the pill and find effects on teenage motherhood but not on subsequent career outcomes. Using survey data, we show that the pill's impact on fertility is largest for women with an early sexual debut; nevertheless, broader effects of pill usage are still absent. Our study indicates that the pill cannot explain the rise of Norwegian women's economic empowerment.

• Finseraas, Henning; Skorge, Øyvind Søraas & Strøm, Marte (2018). Does education affect immigration attitudes? Evidence from an education reform. Electoral Studies.  55(Oct), s 131- 135 . doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2018.06.009 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Empirical research consistently finds that people with high education have more liberal immigration attitudes. To what extent this relationship reflects a causal effect of education is, however, largely unknown. We rely on the staggered introduction of a major Norwegian education reform to get exogenous variation in respondents’ level of education. The reform lifted the bottom of the education distribution by increasing the compulsory years of education by two years. We find no significant differences in immigration attitudes between those who were educated in the old and the new education system. Our results suggest that if education has a causal effect on immigration attitudes, it is likely to operate on other education margins.

• Finseraas, Henning; Jakobsson, Niklas & Svensson, Mikael (2017). Do knowledge gains from public information campaigns persist over time? Results from a survey experiment on the Norwegian pension reform. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.  16(1), s 108- 117 . doi: 10.1017/S1474747215000098 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Government authorities use resources on information campaigns in order to inform citizens about relevant policy changes. The motivation is usually that individuals sometimes are ill-informed about the public policies relevant for their choices. In a survey experiment where the treatment group was provided with public information material on the social security system, we assess the short- and medium-term knowledge effects. We show that the short run effects of the information on knowledge disappear completely within 4 months. The findings illustrate the limits of public information campaigns to improve knowledge about relevant policy reforms.

• Finseraas, Henning & Kotsadam, Andreas (2017). Ancestry Culture and Female Employment - An Analysis Using Second-Generation Siblings. European Sociological Review.  33(3), s 382- 392 . doi: 10.1093/esr/jcx048 Full text in Research Archive.
• Finseraas, Henning & Kotsadam, Andreas (2017). Does personal contact with ethnic minorities affect anti-immigrant sentiments? Evidence from a field experiment. European Journal of Political Research.  56(3), s 703- 722 . doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12199 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  This article explores the causal effect of personal contact with ethnic minorities on majority members’ views on immigration, immigrants’ work ethics, and support for lower social assistance benefits to immigrants than to natives. Exogenous variation in personal contact is obtained by randomising soldiers into different rooms during the basic training period for conscripts in the Norwegian Army's North Brigade. Based on contact theory of majority–minority relations, the study spells out why the army can be regarded as an ideal contextual setting for exposure to reduce negative views on minorities. The study finds a substantive effect of contact on views on immigrants’ work ethics, but small and insignificant effects on support for welfare dualism, as well as on views on whether immigration makes Norway a better place in which to live.

• Finseraas, Henning; Røed, Marianne & Schøne, Pål (2017). Labor market competition with immigrants and political polarization. Quarterly Journal of Political Science.  12(3), s 347- 373 . doi: 10.1561/100.00016109 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  The political consequences of economic globalization has lately been fiercely debated across Europe and the United States, including the role of labor immigration. In this paper we study the party choices of voters facing labor market competition from immigration. To identify the effect of labor market competition we introduce the national skill cell approach, which is designed to isolate a direct partial effect of immigrant competition. By access to detailed, population-wide, administrative data, we get precise measures of Norwegian voters' exposure to competition, and we relate this measure to voting behavior in five national elections. We find a polarizing effect of immigration among voters experiencing negative wage effects of immigration. The polarization points to the existence of a protectionist and a compensatory response, and we propose that predetermined ideological convictions determine the response.

• Bay, Ann-Helen; Finseraas, Henning & Pedersen, Axel West (2016). Welfare Nationalism and Popular Support for Raising the Child Allowance: Evidence from a Norwegian Survey Experiment. Scandinavian Political Studies.  39(4), s 482- 494 . doi: 10.1111/1467-9477.12067 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Refugee and labour immigration have placed the issue of immigrants’ access to welfare benefits high on the political agenda. This article explores how voter preferences for increases in the child benefit change when respondents are reminded about immigrants’ access to benefits. The survey experiment shows that information about newly arrived immigrants’ access to child benefit has only a small impact on support for increasing the child allowance. By contrast, information about labour migrants’ access to benefits for children living in another European Union country has a strong impact, and the observed sensitivity to this cue is not to the same extent confined to respondents who otherwise support welfare dualism.

• Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Ines & Schøne, Pål (2016). School enrolment and mothers’ labor supply: evidence from a regression discontinuity approach. Review of Economics of the Household.  s 1- 18 . doi: 10.1007/s11150-016-9350-0 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  We analyze the impact on maternal employment of a universal school reform in Norway which lowered the school starting age from seven to six. We use a regression discontinuity approach exploiting exogenous variation in the compulsory school enrollment rule caused by the reform. Our results reveal positive short-term effects on labor supply (approximately five percentage points) and on earnings (about 12600/1350 NOK/Euro). Subgroup analyses show that the positive effects are much stronger for mothers with low wage potential, a group of mothers that were less likely to use formal childcare prior to the reform. The positive effects for this subgroup of mothers suggest that expanding child-care can be an effective tool for increasing labor supply of mothers who previously had relatively low labor market earnings potential.

• Finseraas, Henning; Johnsen, Åshild Auglænd; Kotsadam, Andreas & Torsvik, Gaute (2016). Exposure to female colleagues breaks the glass ceiling— Evidence from a combined vignette and field experiment. European Economic Review.  90, s 363- 374 . doi: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2015.11.010 Show summary

  We study discrimination among recruits in the Norwegian Armed Forces during boot camp. In a vignette experiment female candidates are perceived as less suited to be squad leaders than their identical male counterparts. Adding positive information leads to higher evaluations of the candidates, but does not reduce the amount of discrimination. However, randomized intense collaborative exposure to female colleagues reduces discriminatory attitudes: Male soldiers who were randomly assigned to share room and work in a squad with female soldiers during the recruit period do not discriminate in the vignette experiment.

• Finseraas, Henning; Pedersen, Axel West & Bay, Ann-Helén (2016). When the going gets tough: The Differential Impact of National Unemployment on the Perceived Threats of Immigration. Political Studies.  64(1), s 60- 73 . doi: 10.1111/1467-9248.12162 Full text in Research Archive.
• Finseraas, Henning & Schøne, Pål (2016). Lokalt etterspørselssjokk, mobilisering av arbeidskraft og trygdebruk. Søkelys på arbeidslivet.  33(1/2), s 66- 84 . doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-7989-2016-01-02-04 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Tidligere forskning har vist at negative etterspørselssjokk som for eksempel bedriftsnedleggelser har ført til at strømmen til uførhet har økt. Disse resultatene indikerer at uføretilbøyeligheten er påvirket av lokale variasjoner i etterspørselen. I denne artikkelen benytter vi et lokalt positivt etterspørselssjokk for å se om også et positivt sjokk kan påvirke uføretilbøyeligheten. Konkret benytter vi utbyggingen av Snøhvit-gassfeltet utenfor Hammerfest, som ledet til en økning i den lokale etterspørselen i Hammerfest. Resultatene viser at sysselsetting og lønninger økte i Hammerfest i løpet av anleggsperioden, og uføretilbøyeligheten falt noe på slutten av perioden. Disse endringene er imidlertid drevet av personer som flytter til Hammerfest som en respons på det positive sjokket.

• Barth, Erling; Finseraas, Henning & Moene, Karl Ove (2015). Political Reinforcement: How Rising Inequality Curbs Manifested Welfare Generosity. American Journal of Political Science.  59(3), s 565- 577 . doi: 10.1111/ajps.12129 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  We propose a political reinforcement hypothesis, suggesting that rising inequality moves party politics on welfare state issues to the right, strengthening rather than modifying the impact of inequality. We model policy platforms by incorporating ideology and opportunism of party members and interests and sympathies of voters. If welfare spending is a normal good within income classes, a majority of voters moves rightward when inequality increases. As a response, the left, in particular, shift their welfare policy platform toward less generosity. We find support for our arguments using data on the welfare policy platforms of political parties in 22 OECD countries.

• Finseraas, Henning (2015). The Effect of a Booming Local Economy in Early Childhood on the Propensity to Vote: Evidence from a Natural Experiment. British Journal of Political Science. . doi: 10.1017/S0007123415000277 Show summary

  Growing up in a booming local economy can influence turnout in adulthood because family income influences the realization of cognitive abilities, investments in human capital and socio-economic status. Exploiting the discovery of oil outside the Norwegian county of Rogaland, this article identifies cohorts that experienced a shock in family income in childhood. This shock enables the effect of economic resources in childhood to be isolated from other characteristics of parents, such as their education level and personality traits. The study uses a differences-in-differences approach and finds that the affected cohorts are about 4 percentage points more likely to vote. The results suggest that potential mechanisms in addition to family income are changes in local public spending and in peers’ political behaviour.

• Pedersen, Axel West; Finseraas, Henning & Schøne, Pål (2015). Økonomiske insentiver i trygdesystemet, I: Ann-Helén Bay; Anniken Hagelund & Aksel Hatland (red.),  For mange på trygd? : Velferdspolitiske spenninger.  Cappelen Damm Akademisk.  ISBN 978-82-02-49470-4.  Kapittel 4.  s 78 - 106
• Bay, Ann-Helén; Pedersen, Axel West & Finseraas, Henning (2014). Comfort in numbers? Social integration and political participation among disability benefit recipients in Norway. European Journal of Social Security.  16(4), s 290- 307 . doi: 10.1177/138826271401600402 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  There are growing concerns both in academic and political debates that the provision of cash transfers to people in economically active age groups does not support and might even undermine active social citizenship. In this article we study the social integration and political participation of disability benefit recipients in Norway. We anticipate that disability benefit recipients are less likely than others to participate in social and political arenas, but postulate that the degree of their social and political marginalisation depends on contextual factors. In particular we expect that the presence of a large proportion of disability benefit recipients in the local area where the individual disability benefit recipient lives will make it less likely that they will be marginalised in terms of social networks; we anticipate that this positive network effect will also spill over into participation in voluntary organisations and the propensity to vote in national elections. Analysing Norwegian survey-data, we find that disability benefit recipients are somewhat marginalised both socially and in terms of participation in voluntary organisations. In municipalities with a high proportion of disability benefit recipients, individuals belonging to this group are more likely to have close friends, but this beneficial contextual effect is not found to spill over into increased organisational and political participation.

• Finseraas, Henning & Jakobsson, Niklas (2014). Does a Simple Information Intervention Change the Perception of a Reform?. Applied Economics Letters.  21(18), s 1266- 1268 . doi: 10.1080/13504851.2014.922660 Show summary

  We present the results of a survey experiment where the respondents were randomly assigned the opportunity to read an information brochure regarding recently implemented changes in the Norwegian pension system. We find that those given the opportunity to read the information material are more likely to believe that the reform has made the pension system easier to understand.

• Finseraas, Henning & Vernby, Kåre (2014). A mixed blessing for the left? Early voting, turnout and election outcomes in Norway. Electoral Studies.  33(March), s 278- 291 . doi: 10.1016/j.electstud.2013.07.003
• Finseraas, Henning & Jakobsson, Niklas (2013). Does information about the pension system affect knowledge and retirement plans? Evidence from a survey experiment. Journal of Pension Economics and Finance.  13(3), s 250- 271 . doi: 10.1017/S1474747213000310
• Bay, Ann-Helén; Finseraas, Henning & Pedersen, Axel West (2013). Welfare Dualism in Two Scandinavian Welfare States: Public Opinion and Party Politics. West European Politics.  36(1), s 199- 220 . doi: 10.1080/01402382.2013.742757 Full text in Research Archive.
• Finseraas, Henning (2013). Finanskrisen og oppslutningen om velferdsstaten i Europa. Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.  16(4), s 260- 271 Full text in Research Archive.
• Finseraas, Henning & Kotsadam, Andreas (2013). Hvordan identifisere årsakssammenhenger i ikke-eksperimentelle data? En ikke-teknisk introduksjon. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.  54(3), s 371- 387 Full text in Research Archive.
• Finseraas, Henning & Listhaug, Ola (2013). It can happen here: the impact of the Mumbai terror attacks on public opinion in Western Europe. Public Choice.  156(1-2), s 213- 228 . doi: 10.1007/s11127-011-9895-7 Show summary

  Do terror attacks have an impact on public opinion, even if the terror attacks happen far away? We exploit the fact that the fourth round of the European Social Survey was conducted in several West European countries at the time of the 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai, India, in order to identify the causal effect of the Mumbai attacks on public opinion. We identify a clear jump in fear of terrorism at home as a consequence of the terror attacks, but despite the increase in fear of terrorism, we find no significant effect of the attack on support for illiberal interrogation techniques or for liberal immigration policies. We do find indications of a shift in conservative direction on the left–right scale, but this shift is not significant in all time windows. Our findings suggest that a terror attack needs to have a very large impact on the fear of terrorism before people change their policy preferences.

• Finseraas, Henning; Sandovici, Maria Elena & Listhaug, Ola (2013). Religion and Demand for Social Protection: Revisiting the Substitution Hypothesis, In Stefan Dahlberg; Henrik Oscarsson & Lena Wängnerud (ed.),  Stepping stones : research on political representation, voting behaviour, and quality of government.  Göteborgs universitet.  ISBN 9789889246594.  Chapter 11.  s 211 - 236
• Kotsadam, Andreas & Finseraas, Henning (2013). Causal Effects of Parental Leave on Adolescents' Household Work. Social Forces.  92(1), s 329- 351 . doi: 10.1093/sf/sot044 Full text in Research Archive.
• Pedersen, Axel West & Finseraas, Henning (2013). Arbeidsbetingede stønader - liberale virkemidler i arbeidslinjas verktøykasse. Søkelys på arbeidslivet.  30(4), s 335- 355 Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Arbeidsbetingede stønader eller “in-work benefits” er kontantytelser eller skattelettelser som gis bare til lønnstakere og som dermed gjør det mer økonomisk lønnsomt å velge arbeid fremfor passivt trygdemottak. Ordninger av denne typen har fått økt utbredelse de siste årene i en rekke land, og en viktig forklaring på deres popularitet er at de gir håp om å kunne forene de ellers motstridende hensynene til effektivitet og fordeling. I denne artikkelen redegjør vi for erfaringene med slike ordninger fra pionerlandet USA og fra Storbritannia og Sverige, og vi drøfter den mulige relevansen av slike ordninger som virkemiddel i norsk arbeidslinjepolitikk.

• Finseraas, Henning & Jakobsson, Niklas (2012). Trust and Ethnic Fractionalization: The Importance of Religion as a Cross-Cutting Dimension. Kyklos (Basel).  65(3), s 327- 339 . doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2012.00541.x Show summary

  The existing literature on diversity and trust has focused on a unidimensional understanding of diversity. Weargue that a unidimensional approach is theoretically and empirically problematic and use a recentlydeveloped multidimensional measure of social structure to investigate which aspects of diversity are associated with generalized trust. We run cross-country regressions with up to 115 countries to explore the importance of fractionalization for average trust levels 1981–2008. Using several different measures of ethnic fractionalization, we do not find a general and robust relationship between ethnic fractionalization and trust. In line with expectations, however, we find a negative and significant association between ethnic fractionalization and trust for low levels of ethno-religious cross-cuttingness and cross-fractionalization, illustrating the importance of multidimensionality.

• Finseraas, Henning; Jakobsson, Niklas & Kotsadam, Andreas (2012). The Gender Gap in Political Preferences: An Empirical Test of a Political Economy Explanation. Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State and Society.  19(2), s 219- 242 . doi: 10.1093/sp/jxs005
• Finseraas, Henning (2012). Do Voters Reward Incumbent Parties for Reductions in Tax Burdens? An Empirical Analysis Using Norwegian Tax Register Data. Journal of Elections, Public Opinion, and Parties.  22(1), s 95- 108
• Finseraas, Henning (2012). Poverty, ethnic minorities among the poor, and preferences for redistribution in European regions. Journal of European Social Policy.  22(2), s 164- 180 . doi: 10.1177/0958928711433655
• Finseraas, Henning & Ringdal, Kristen (2012). Economic globalization, personal risks and the demand for a comprehensive welfare state, In Heikki Ervasti; Jørgen Goul Andersen; Torben Fridberg & Kristen Ringdal (ed.),  The Future of the Welfare State. Social Policy Attitudes and Social Capital in Europe.  Edward Elgar Publishing.  ISBN 978-1-78100-126-4.  Chapter 4.  s 68 - 87
• Kvaløy, Berit; Finseraas, Henning & Listhaug, Ola (2012). The publics' concern for global warming: A cross-national study of 47 countries. Journal of Peace Research.  49(1), s 11- 22 . doi: 10.1177/0022343311425841 Show summary

  This article relies on data from the 2005–09 World Values Survey to examine individual and cross-national variation in perception of the seriousness of global warming. The data show that a large majority of the public in all countries are concerned about the problem of global warming and that this assessment is part of a broader concern for global environmental issues. The widespread concern implies that global warming has the potential to generate mass political participation and demand for political action. Motivated by a value-based approach to the study of public opinion, the article shows that perception of the seriousness of the problem is positively correlated with high education, post-materialism, and a leftist position on the left–right scale. In addition, religious beliefs are important, suggesting that there is some diversity in the value basis for the issue and that it is not only linked to the ‘new-politics’ perspective. Variation across nations in wealth and CO2 emissions is not significantly related to the publics’ assessments of the problem, and, somewhat counterintuitively, people from countries relatively more exposed to climate-related natural disasters are less concerned about global warming. We suggest possible explanations for the latter finding and discuss our results in relation to the broader literature on environmental change, insecurity, and the potential for conflict.

• Finseraas, Henning; Jakobsson, Niklas & Kotsadam, Andreas (2011). Did the Murder of Theo van Gogh Change Europeans' Immigration Policy Preferences?. Kyklos (Basel).  64(3), s 396- 409 . doi: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2011.00512.x
• Bay, Ann-Helén; Finseraas, Henning & Hatland, Aksel (2011). Svikter oppslutningen om velferdspolitikken?, I: Aksel Hatland (red.),  Veivalg i velferdspolitikken.  Fagbokforlaget.  ISBN 9788245008319.  8.  s 137 - 149
• Finseraas, Henning (2011). Anti-immigration attitudes, support for redistribution and party choice in Europe, In Jon Kvist; Johan Fritzell; Bjørn Hvinden & Olli Kangas (ed.),  Changing Social Equality: The Nordic welfare model in the 21st century.  Policy Press.  ISBN 978-1-84742-659-8.  kap 2.
• Finseraas, Henning & Vernby, Kåre (2011). What parties are and what parties do: partisanship and welfare state reform in an era of austerity. Socio-Economic Review.  9(4), s 613- 638 . doi: 10.1093/ser/mwr003
• Kotsadam, Andreas & Finseraas, Henning (2011). The state intervenes in the battle of the sexes: Causal effects of paternity leave. Social Science Research.  40(6), s 1611- 1622 . doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.06.011
• Bay, Ann-Helén & Finseraas, Henning (2010). Legitimitet og velgerholdninger, I: Ann-Helén Bay; Aksel Hatland; Tale Hellevik & Charlotte Koren (red.),  De norske trygdene : framvekst, forvaltning og fordeling.  Gyldendal Akademisk.  ISBN 978-82-05-40390-1.  5.  s 91 - 104
• Bay, Ann-Helén; Finseraas, Henning & Hagelund, Anniken (2010). Civil Society and Political Integration of Minorities in Norway, In Bo Bengtsson; Per Strømblad & Ann-Helén Bay (ed.),  Diversity, Inclusion and Citizenship in Scandinavia.  Cambridge Scholars Publishing.  ISBN 9781443825740.  -.  s 295 - 343
• Finseraas, Henning (2010). What if Robin Hood is a social conservative? How the political response to increasing inequality depends on party polarization. Socio-Economic Review.  8(2), s 283- 306 . doi: 10.1093/ser/mwp012
• Finseraas, Henning & Vernby, Kare (2010). Xenophobia and Left Voting. Politics & Society.  38(4), s 490- 516 . doi: 10.1177/0032329210381237
• Finseraas, Henning (2009). Income Inequality and Demand for Redistribution: A Multilevel Analysis of European Public Opinion. Scandinavian Political Studies.  32(1), s 94- 119 . doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9477.2008.00211.x
• Finseraas, Henning (2009). Pensjonsreform: Opinion og politikk i komparativt perspektiv, I: Ann-Helén Bay; Axel West Pedersen & Jo Saglie (red.),  Når velferd blir politikk. Partier, organisasjoner og opinion.  Abstrakt forlag.  ISBN 978-82-7935-247-1.  kap 8.
• Finseraas, Henning (2008). Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution: An Empirical Analysis of European Survey Data. Comparative European Politics.

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• Dale-Olsen, Harald & Finseraas, Henning (2019). Linguistic Diversity and Workplace Productivity. Show summary

  We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages’ linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer-employee Manufacturing data from 2003-12, and find that higher workforce linguistic diversity decreases productivity. We find a negative effect also when we take into account the impact of cultural diversity. As expected proficiency in Norwegian of foreign workers improves since their time of arrival in Norway, the detrimental impact disappears.

• Finseraas, Henning (2013). Helse og deltakelse i frivillige organisasjoner. Rapport fra Senter for forskning på sivilsamfunn og frivillig sektor. Notat. Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  I dette notatet studeres sammenhengen mellom helse og deltakelse i frivillig arbeid for foreninger og organisasjoner. Ved hjelp av et stort datamateriale fra Studien av livsløp, generasjon og kjønn (LOGG) finner jeg at det er en klar sammenheng mellom subjektiv helse og frivillighet, men en mindre klar sammenheng mellom objektive helse-plager og frivillighet. Videre identifiseres en viss geografisk variasjon i sammenhengen mellom helse og frivillighet. Analysene indikerer at helseforskjellene er større i kommuner med få innbyggere, noe som ser ut til å skyldes at de med god helse deltar i mindre grad i folkerike kommuner. Det er viktig å understreke at resultatene kun beskriver sammenhengen mellom helse og frivillighet og ikke sier noe om årsakssammenhengen mellom helse og frivillighet.

• Pedersen, Axel West & Finseraas, Henning (2013). Den nye gulroten i arbeidslinja? Arbeidsbetingede stønader - en kunnskapsoppsummering. Rapport - Institutt for samfunnsforskning. 2013:002. Full text in Research Archive. Show summary

  Flere OECD-land har i løpet av de siste tiårene innført stønadsordninger hvor et sentralt kriterium for mottak av stønaden er at mottakeren er i inntektsgivende arbeid, såkalte arbeidsbetingede stønader. Det gjøres først rede for den historiske bakgrunnen for denne typen stønadsordninger, hvilke dimensjoner de varierer langs, og teoretiske betraktninger for hvordan de kan tenkes å påvirke arbeidstilbud og fattigdom. Deretter gis en oversikt over hvilke ordninger som eksisterer i fem OECD-land (Sverige, Danmark, Nederland, Storbritannia og Irland), samt hvilke evalueringer som er gjort av disse. Til slutt diskuteres relevansen av arbeidsbetingede stønader for Norge.

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• Dale-Olsen, Harald & Finseraas, Henning (2019). Linguistic Proximity and Workplace Productivity.
• Dale-Olsen, Harald & Finseraas, Henning (2019). Linguistic proximity and workplace productivity. Show summary

  We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages’ linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer-employee Manufacturing data from 2001-12, and find that higher workforce linguistic proximity increases total factor productivity. We find a positive effect also when we take into account the impact of cultural diversity and the improvement of proficiency in Norwegian of foreign workers since their time of arrival in Norway.

• Finseraas, Henning (2017). Respons til Tor Bjørklund. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning.  58(3), s 343- 348 . doi: 10.18261/ISSN.1504-291X-2017-03-05
• Ferwerda, Jeremy; Finseraas, Henning & Bergh, Johannes (2016). Voting Rights and Immigrant Incorporation: Evidence from Norway.
• Finseraas, Henning; Marianne, Røed & Schøne, Pål (2016). Labor Market Competition with Immigrants and Party Choice: Evidence From A Skill Cell Approach.
• Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Ines & Schøne, Pål (2015). Free Childcare and Mothers' Labor Supply: Evidence Using a School Starting Age Reform.
• Finseraas, Henning; Hardoy, Ines & Schøne, Pål (2015). Free Childcare and Mothers' Labor Supply: Evidence Using a School Starting Age Reform.
• Finseraas, Henning & Kotsadam, Andreas (2015). Does Personal Contact with Ethnic Minorites Affect Support for Welfare Dualism? Evidence from a Field Experiment.
• Finseraas, Henning (2014). The Effect of A Booming Local Economy in Early Childhood on the Propensity to Vote: Evidence from a Natural Experiment.
• Finseraas, Henning; Barth, Erling; Moene, Karl Ove & Østbakken, Kjersti Misje (2014). Insurance or redistribution motives? Behaviors and beliefs in the welfare state.
• Finseraas, Henning & Kotsadam, Andreas (2014). Culture and Female Labour Supply.
• Finseraas, Henning & Schøne, Pål (2014). Does a Boom in the Local Labor Market Reduce Disability Pensioning Up-take?.
• Finseraas, Henning (2012). Ageing populations in postindustrial democracies. Tidsskrift for velferdsforskning.  15(3), s 240- 241
• Ugreninov, Elisabeth; Kotsadam, Andreas & Finseraas, Henning (2012). “The Long-Term Effect of Parental Leave on Mothers’ Earnings”.
• Urgreninov, Elisabeth; Finseraas, Henning & Kotsadam, Andreas (2011). The long-term effect of parental leave on mothers’ earnings.
• Pedersen, Axel West & Finseraas, Henning (2009). Towards a European convergence in pension policy outputs? Evidence from the OMC on pensions, In Rune Ervik; Nanna Kildal & Even Nilssen (ed.),  The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy. Ideas, Actors and Impact.  Edward Elgar Publishing.  ISBN 978-1-84720-976-4.  kap 9.

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