Jørgen Modalsli

Yes, agree

I had a good experience booking Interrail seat reservations in France through b-europe.com (SNCB) this summer!

4 panel Calvin and Hobbes comic strip. Calvin, very anxious: "It's July already! Oh No! Oh No!" "What happened to June!? Summer vacation is slipping through our fingers like grains of sand!" "It's going too fast! We've got to hoard our freedom and have more fun! Time rushes on! Help! Help!" Last panel, Hobbes, looking puzzled: "I don't think I want to be here at the end of August." Calvin, running away: "AAUGH! It's a half-hour later than it was half an hour ago! Run! Run!"

Calvin & Hobbes, July 1989

Enjoying the World Labor Conference (@eale-office.bsky.social /SOLE/AASLE) in Toronto! Look forward to an interesting program, and to presenting our paper on labor force participation and intergen mobility tomorrow. Happy to chat about mobility, inequality, long-run trends, historical micro data++!

Media feilet TOTALT da noen finansierte Jarle Aabøs anti-MDG-kampanje. Nå er det store penger som brukes på Putins talepunkter inn i norsk valgkamp. De ansvarlige må holdes ansvarlig.

On Norway's Constitution Day: a new, unknown "anti-war" party has ads all over the public transport system in Oslo. Financed by Russia? Who knows, political financing transparency laws are weak

Great experience visiting the Social history of finance group at the University of Antwerpen today. www.uantwerpen.be/en/projects/... Many excellent questions and suggestions about historical wealth inequality! @uantwerpen.be

Congratulations!

That would be a likely explanation then!

In Norway there has been a shift following a guarantee of childcare coverage at age 1 depending on whether your kid is born before/after a cutoff date in the fall. No idea how this works in France. Initially thought maybe autumn kids would be oldest in their class. That appears not to be the case

Associate Professor in Economics Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with almost 22,000 students and over 2,500 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students...

Academic position open! Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University (@oslomet.bsky.social) has a position as Associate Professor in Economics open, application deadline 2 February. More info here: www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...

Da kunne staten bidratt med et fast økonomisk tilskudd (off. kjøp), og så kunne Ruter tatt hensyn til etterspørsel, driftskostnader, kapasitet på linja, osv, når de satte prisene. Og kanskje, bare kanskje, noe av driftsstabiliteten på T-banen i Oslo ville smittet over på lokaltogene...

Dette er kanskje litt på siden, men: virker tungvint at tog i Oslo/Ak (50%?? av passasjertrafikk i Norge) prises først av staten til fylkene, og så av Ruter til reisende, med ulik modell. Ville vært enklere om bare Ruter kunne kjøre togene! (i Oslo/Akershus,og til Moss/Rakkest/Kongsv/Gjøvik kanskje)

Ja, det er søsteren min :-)

Urettferdig? Kanskje. Og kanskje lite hensiktsmessig med ulik pris særlig på korte reiser. Men de i Drøbak (f eks) har jo et mye dårligere tilbud enn de i Ski/Ås når de skal til Oslo. Så kanskje OK at de slipper litt billigere unna? Man prøvde vel dette med ulik pris ca år 2000, med Romeriksporten

OSL: som du skriver, skal fylket subsidiere flyreisende? Generelt: Nå så jeg bare fort på rapporten, men virker som om det fylket betaler for tog begrenser hvilke modeller man ser for seg. I tillegg stod det i kapittelet om fordelingsvirkninger at togpassasjerer ofte er de med relativ god økonomi

Mye av det du skriver her (og som står i rapporten) peker mot at tog burde være dyrere enn buss. Er usikker på hva jeg mener om det generelt, men for OSL virker det hensiktsmessig. Særlig når Vy og Flytoget slås sammen

More about the economics group here: www.oslomet.no/en/research/... @anderskjelsrud.bsky.social @jacopobizzotto.bsky.social @aajohnsen.bsky.social @svennjensen.bsky.social @frednail.bsky.social

Associate Professor in Economics Oslo Metropolitan University is Norway's third largest university with almost 22,000 students and over 2,500 employees. We have campuses in central Oslo and at Romerike. OsloMet educates students...

Academic position open! Oslo Business School at Oslo Metropolitan University (@oslomet.bsky.social) has a position as Associate Professor in Economics open, application deadline 2 February. More info here: www.oslomet.no/en/work/job-...

Organized by Kalle Kappner, @mreiske.bsky.social, @mathiasbuehler.bsky.social and @thiloalbers.bsky.social

Great workshop on historical microdata at CES/LMU today! Look forward to the rest of it tomorrow. Image from lunch at Munich's Englisher Garten. Presentations included, among others: @mreiske.bsky.social @christianvedel.bsky.social @jvoth.bsky.social @cathrinmohr.bsky.social

This paper presents estimates of income concentration and inequality for Norway using a new comprehensive measure of income, which identifies business income as it is earned by companies rather than when it is paid out as dividends to owners. We assemble several sources of high quality register data that allow us to account for multiple layers of business ownership across all companies between 2001 and 2018. Compared to official statistics, the new measure implies that the share of income attributable to the top 1\% of the distribution more than doubles and the Gini coefficient estimates increase by about 40\%. Our new measure identifies substantial tax regressivity for individuals in the top percentile, a feature that cannot be detected by standard income measures. For instance, while the share of gross income paid in taxes by individuals at the 99th percentile is about 36\% in 2016, the corresponding share paid by individuals in the top 1\% is 19\%.

New working paper! How Business Income Measures Affect Income Inequality and the Tax Burden, with Aaberge, Francesconi and Vestad. Using Norwegian administrative data, we show that income inequality is much higher than commonly measured. Measurement matters! www.iza.org/publications...

I made a starting pack with colleagues at Oslo Business School / Handelshøyskolen OsloMet go.bsky.app/Qth1ydg @oslomet.bsky.social

Thank you!!

Thanks! Can I join?

Norske samfunnsøkonomer kanskje?

Made a starter pack on Economists (and related) in Norway: go.bsky.app/SaEqpCs
Let me know if you want to be added to the list.

Inspired by @jansauermann.bsky.social and @hhsievertsen.bsky.social with the Swedish and Danish lists and the thread by @ginapieters.bsky.social
#EconSky 📉📈

Så bra! Kan du legge meg til?

Thanks for making a starter pack! Can I join?

We’re going to hear lots of stories about which people, policies and rhetoric are to blame for the Democrats’ defeat.

Some of those stories may even be true!

But an underrated factor is that 2024 was an absolutely horrendous year for incumbents around the world 👇