IMF Staff Country Reports

Norway: Selected Issues

February 5, 2001

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Summary

This Selected Issues paper presents the projections on the fiscal and external profiles for Norway, and discusses the long-term prospects and policy options. The study evaluates the details and implications of the system of social insurance schemes; and long-term profile of oil-related exports and income. The paper highlights the economics behind long-term projections for the non-oil current account. The study focuses on the implications of centralized bargaining for the labor market, and explores its continued viability.

Subject: Commodities, Employment, Expenditure, Labor, Labor markets, Oil, Pension spending, Pensions, Wages

Keywords: CR, Dutch disease, Employment, Europe, Exchange rate, Financial assets, ISCR, Labor markets, Occupational pension, Oil, Pension spending, Private sector, Wage compression, Wage increase, Wage scale, Wages

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    59

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Country Report No. 2001/034

  • Stock No:

    1NOREA0022001

  • ISBN:

    9781451829723

  • ISSN:

    1934-7685