Egalitarianism under pressure? New perspectives on inequality and social cohesion
Number | 1178 |
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Project manager | Knut Røed |
Client | Norges Forskningsråd |
Client project no. | 236992 |
Participants | Ingvild Almås Gunn E. Birkelund Bernt Bratsberg Elisabeth Fevang Simen Gaure Maria Forthun Hoen Andreas Kotsadam Snorre Kverndokk Simen Markussen Espen Moen Anja Grinde Myrann Robin Naylor Andrew Penner Trond Petersen Oddbjørn Raaum Ole Røgeberg Tao Zhang |
Period | 2014 - 2018 |
Project description
This project seeks to evaluate societal forces that challenge the Norwegian egalitarian welfare state model. It identifies three important arenas for change: - The Labor market: Technological developments, intensified competition, and free movements of labor within Europe may affect forces of labor supply and demand in ways that impede labor market success among individuals with reduced work capacity. - The distribution of health conditions: We see signs of polarization among the young and a scope for rising inequality in life-time earnings caused by differential employment opportunities among the old. - The family: Changing marital sorting patterns are likely to affect intra-generational inequality across households, as well as the inter-generational transmission of human capital and wealth. The project is primarily empirical, drawing on merged longitudinal data from administrative registers describing the life histories of individuals and firms over a 15-20 year period. The project has a clear focus on identifying causal mechanisms that are of interest from a policy perspective. For example: - Has the open European labor market changed firms' incentives for hiring and keeping marginal workers, and to what extent are their practices affected by labor market regulations and social insurance design? - How can we expect added healthy life-years to be distributed, and will differences in opportunity and ability to work beyond the standard retirement age become a major source of inequality in life-time earnings? - Is the pattern of marital sorting changing in ways that cause increased inequality and/or less social mobility? The big research challenge is to sort out causality from selection. The project therefore focuses on identifying truly exogenous variation in key explanatory variables, and on research strategies designed to quantify key causal mechanisms of interest.Publications
Scientific Journal
Book chapter
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Røed, Knut | Towards Lower Economic Mobility in Norway? The Norwegian Academy of Science | 2018 | [PDF] | |
Markussen, Simen og Knut Røed | Ulikhet og sosial mobilitet | 2016 |
Frisch Working Paper
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Hoen, Maria Forthun | Occupational crosswalk, data and language requirements | 2016 | No. 1 | [PDF] |
Other journals
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Fevang, Elisabeth | Helserelaterte ytelser og skjult arbeidsledighet – en diskusjon om mulige sammenhenger | 2020 | Søkelys på arbeidslivet Vol 37(3), 201-215 | [PDF] [DOI] |
Hoen, Maria Forthun, Simen Markussen, Knut Røed | Innvandring og sosial mobilitet. Svar til kritikerne | 2019 | Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning Vol 60(3), 309-320 | [PDF] |
Furuholmen, Jens | Delingsøkonomiens fremvekst - Effekten av Airbnb på hotellbransjen i Norge | 2017 | Samfunnsøkonomen Nr 3, 52-62 | [PDF] |