Kristin Alsos
@kristinalsos.bsky.social
Fafoforsker, glad i tariffavtaler.
Researher at Fafo, Industrial/Employment relations.
Researher at Fafo, Industrial/Employment relations.
UiO-forsker (og Fafo-kollega) Elias Nosrati finner at økt formuesskatt, med noen mindre endringer, kan bidra til mer effektiv ressursfordeling. Anbefalt lesning! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation
Article: The Political Economy of Optimal Taxation | Sociological Science | Posted September 18, 2025
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October 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
UiO-forsker (og Fafo-kollega) Elias Nosrati finner at økt formuesskatt, med noen mindre endringer, kan bidra til mer effektiv ressursfordeling. Anbefalt lesning! sociologicalscience.com/articles-v12...
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“Be careful who you hate, it could be someone you love.”
📍FK Bodø/Glimt, Norway
📍FK Bodø/Glimt, Norway
October 4, 2025 at 9:54 PM
“Be careful who you hate, it could be someone you love.”
📍FK Bodø/Glimt, Norway
📍FK Bodø/Glimt, Norway
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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
September 11, 2025 at 11:31 PM
I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/
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Wolt-kurirernas anställningsstatus blir allt tydligare. Motsvarande domstol i Finland drog en liknande slutsats i maj. @arbetet.bsky.social yle.fi/a/7-10078353
June 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Wolt-kurirernas anställningsstatus blir allt tydligare. Motsvarande domstol i Finland drog en liknande slutsats i maj. @arbetet.bsky.social yle.fi/a/7-10078353
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📢We are hiring two post-doctoral fellows!
The positions are connected to the research project Egalitarian but not Equal: Sectoral Wage Formation and Gendered Wage Differentials (WAGE).
✍️Apply by 22 June 2025: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#postdoc #EuropeanStudies #hiring
The positions are connected to the research project Egalitarian but not Equal: Sectoral Wage Formation and Gendered Wage Differentials (WAGE).
✍️Apply by 22 June 2025: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#postdoc #EuropeanStudies #hiring
May 28, 2025 at 7:39 AM
📢We are hiring two post-doctoral fellows!
The positions are connected to the research project Egalitarian but not Equal: Sectoral Wage Formation and Gendered Wage Differentials (WAGE).
✍️Apply by 22 June 2025: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#postdoc #EuropeanStudies #hiring
The positions are connected to the research project Egalitarian but not Equal: Sectoral Wage Formation and Gendered Wage Differentials (WAGE).
✍️Apply by 22 June 2025: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
#postdoc #EuropeanStudies #hiring
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Taxi and platform drivers in Oslo on 1 May strike
May 1, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Taxi and platform drivers in Oslo on 1 May strike
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DOGE has reportedly gained access to sensitive NLRB data — including info on union activity, workplace complaints, and names of organizers.
Coincidentally, the NLRB has multiple lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla.
The conflicts of interest just keep getting more blatant.
Coincidentally, the NLRB has multiple lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla.
The conflicts of interest just keep getting more blatant.
April 15, 2025 at 9:45 PM
DOGE has reportedly gained access to sensitive NLRB data — including info on union activity, workplace complaints, and names of organizers.
Coincidentally, the NLRB has multiple lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla.
The conflicts of interest just keep getting more blatant.
Coincidentally, the NLRB has multiple lawsuits against SpaceX and Tesla.
The conflicts of interest just keep getting more blatant.
«One of the biggest ways governments have affected wages over the past decade has been by taking power away from workers — and then by giving some of it back.»
Wages as a share of national income were falling until the Labor government passed the first of its IR bills.
Since then the wages share has mostly been increasing.
theconversation.com/yes-governme...
Since then the wages share has mostly been increasing.
theconversation.com/yes-governme...
April 12, 2025 at 5:05 AM
«One of the biggest ways governments have affected wages over the past decade has been by taking power away from workers — and then by giving some of it back.»
Wolt couriers are employees and not freelancers. This was decided by Oslo city court yesterday. The court points to them being subordinated their employer and in need for protection. Wolt says they haven’t decided whether they will appeal.
Sykkelbud Espen vant over budgiganten Wolt: Får fast ansettelse
I dommen står det at alle de tre budene som saksøkte Wolt, skal ha faste ansettelser med ulik stillingsprosent.
frifagbevegelse.no
April 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Wolt couriers are employees and not freelancers. This was decided by Oslo city court yesterday. The court points to them being subordinated their employer and in need for protection. Wolt says they haven’t decided whether they will appeal.
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On Friday, I will defend this thing (my PhD thesis) at @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social: www.sv.uio.no/iss/forsknin...
March 18, 2025 at 1:18 PM
On Friday, I will defend this thing (my PhD thesis) at @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social: www.sv.uio.no/iss/forsknin...
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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
Just received an email saying that it's not advisable to include the following words in future applications for research funding to the US DOT. Here we are.
February 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky
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My latest on how not to respond to Trump's tariff threats www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
How Not to Respond to Trump’s Tariffs | by Dani Rodrik - Project Syndicate
Dani Rodrik advises America’s trade partners not to embrace retaliation, because that would harm mainly themselves.
www.project-syndicate.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My latest on how not to respond to Trump's tariff threats www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/t...
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Hurra for Kristin Jesnes, who brilliantly defended her phd thesis at Gothenburg University today!
February 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Hurra for Kristin Jesnes, who brilliantly defended her phd thesis at Gothenburg University today!
Forskerne som var viktige for at EU fikk et minstelønnsdirektiv forklarer hvorfor ikke alt håp er ute for direktivet, selv om Generaladvokaten mener at det bør annulleres. Direktivet er så langt ikke ansett relevant for Norge.
Last week the Advocate General of the ECJ had published his "Opinion" to annule the #EUMinimumWageDirective, which would be a desaster for Social Europe. But it's not all over now! See my latest column with Torsten Müller (@etui.bsky.social): www.socialeurope.eu/eu-minimum-w...
January 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Forskerne som var viktige for at EU fikk et minstelønnsdirektiv forklarer hvorfor ikke alt håp er ute for direktivet, selv om Generaladvokaten mener at det bør annulleres. Direktivet er så langt ikke ansett relevant for Norge.
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“Trump hasn’t just killed the OECD’s weak tax reforms, he’s effectively threatening to scrap everything built over the last century and to take the world back to ‘robber baron’-era tax policies."
Fantastic analysis from @taxjusticenet.bsky.social taxjustice.net/press/trump-...
Fantastic analysis from @taxjusticenet.bsky.social taxjustice.net/press/trump-...
Trump demands countries surrender tax sovereignty at economic gunpoint | Tax Justice Network
US President Donald Trump has signalled plans to question the right of any country to tax American multinational corporations and is threatening to take countermeasures against countries that do not, ...
taxjustice.net
January 22, 2025 at 10:06 AM
“Trump hasn’t just killed the OECD’s weak tax reforms, he’s effectively threatening to scrap everything built over the last century and to take the world back to ‘robber baron’-era tax policies."
Fantastic analysis from @taxjusticenet.bsky.social taxjustice.net/press/trump-...
Fantastic analysis from @taxjusticenet.bsky.social taxjustice.net/press/trump-...
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En utvidet versjon av dagens tråd her på Bluesky - om Musk og all fornektelsen vi har sett utfolde seg i dag.
Tilretteleggere, tåkeleggere og nyttige idioter
At så mange nå omskriver det Elon Musk gjorde i går, kaller det «obskurt» eller et utslag av glede (!), er illevarslende for tida vi går inn i.
agendamagasin.no
January 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
En utvidet versjon av dagens tråd her på Bluesky - om Musk og all fornektelsen vi har sett utfolde seg i dag.
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Elon Musk spreading the lie that the Norwegian PM; Jonas Gahr Støre sat with Bill Gates this morning, expressing concern on Musks interference in European domestic affairs.
Reality check:
Gates is not in Norway
The PM said this to a Norwegian radio show "Politisk kvarter" this morning.
Reality check:
Gates is not in Norway
The PM said this to a Norwegian radio show "Politisk kvarter" this morning.
January 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Elon Musk spreading the lie that the Norwegian PM; Jonas Gahr Støre sat with Bill Gates this morning, expressing concern on Musks interference in European domestic affairs.
Reality check:
Gates is not in Norway
The PM said this to a Norwegian radio show "Politisk kvarter" this morning.
Reality check:
Gates is not in Norway
The PM said this to a Norwegian radio show "Politisk kvarter" this morning.
Wolt is an employer according to a Swedish lower court, and is thereby responsible for the working environment of their carriers. The food delivery company is expected to lodge an appeal to the Supreme Court. A similar case between Wolt and a Norwegian union is planned in the beginning of 2025.
Domen: Wolt är arbetsgivare åt matbuden
Matbudsföretaget Wolt ska ta ansvar för matbudens arbetsmiljö. Det slår kammarrätten fast i en dom och konstaterar att företaget ska ses som arbetsgivare åt buden.
arbetet.se
December 6, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Wolt is an employer according to a Swedish lower court, and is thereby responsible for the working environment of their carriers. The food delivery company is expected to lodge an appeal to the Supreme Court. A similar case between Wolt and a Norwegian union is planned in the beginning of 2025.
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Sammen med @kristinalsos.bsky.social og Sissel C. Trygstad har jeg redigert antologien Den norske arbeidslivsmodellen. Status og utfordringer i en brytningstid. Boka er full av fantastiske kapitler fra kollegaer på Fafo.
Lansering i morgen på Kulturhuset: www.fafo.no/arrangemente...
Lansering i morgen på Kulturhuset: www.fafo.no/arrangemente...
December 3, 2024 at 11:26 AM
Sammen med @kristinalsos.bsky.social og Sissel C. Trygstad har jeg redigert antologien Den norske arbeidslivsmodellen. Status og utfordringer i en brytningstid. Boka er full av fantastiske kapitler fra kollegaer på Fafo.
Lansering i morgen på Kulturhuset: www.fafo.no/arrangemente...
Lansering i morgen på Kulturhuset: www.fafo.no/arrangemente...
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I set up a ‘labor research and policy’ starter pack. It’s almost at the 150 person capacity… but let me know if I should add you to a ‘part 2’ list… go.bsky.app/55FK3m7
November 25, 2024 at 8:46 PM
I set up a ‘labor research and policy’ starter pack. It’s almost at the 150 person capacity… but let me know if I should add you to a ‘part 2’ list… go.bsky.app/55FK3m7
In Sweden, 80% of private sector employees are covered by a collective agreement. As they don’t have any statutory minimum wage, wage floors are secured through CA. Tesla mechanics have been on strike for more than one year to have Tesla sign an agreement. 1/2
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November 23, 2024 at 9:53 AM
In Sweden, 80% of private sector employees are covered by a collective agreement. As they don’t have any statutory minimum wage, wage floors are secured through CA. Tesla mechanics have been on strike for more than one year to have Tesla sign an agreement. 1/2
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Ligger vel an til at fleksitidsavtalen i staten skrotes, og at ansatte trekkes i lønn om de forsover seg.
November 22, 2024 at 8:10 AM
Ligger vel an til at fleksitidsavtalen i staten skrotes, og at ansatte trekkes i lønn om de forsover seg.
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Next year, most EU countries need to draft a national action plan on collective bargaining.
One way of increasing the coverage of collective bargaining is through multi-employer or sectoral bargaining
Here's an explainer video of @uni-europa.bsky.social
One way of increasing the coverage of collective bargaining is through multi-employer or sectoral bargaining
Here's an explainer video of @uni-europa.bsky.social
NEW📽️: Anna is desperate, costs are rising, but her boss refuses to give her a pay rise.
She decides to organise in a union.
With her co-workers, Anna wins a multi-employer agreement, which lifts pay and conditions for all workers across a sector.
She decides to organise in a union.
With her co-workers, Anna wins a multi-employer agreement, which lifts pay and conditions for all workers across a sector.
How workers get better pay with multi-employer bargaining
YouTube video by UNI Europa
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November 19, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Next year, most EU countries need to draft a national action plan on collective bargaining.
One way of increasing the coverage of collective bargaining is through multi-employer or sectoral bargaining
Here's an explainer video of @uni-europa.bsky.social
One way of increasing the coverage of collective bargaining is through multi-employer or sectoral bargaining
Here's an explainer video of @uni-europa.bsky.social
Diskusjonen om kortere arbeidstid er så godt som fraværende hos arbeidslivets parter og myndighetene. Imens sprer forsøk med firedagers arbeidsuke seg i andre nordeuropeiske land. Her fra England.
A four day working week could be coming to a local council near you
Angela Rayner opens up possibility of four-day working week in local councils
Could other local councils follow...
leftfootforward.org
November 16, 2024 at 4:52 PM
Diskusjonen om kortere arbeidstid er så godt som fraværende hos arbeidslivets parter og myndighetene. Imens sprer forsøk med firedagers arbeidsuke seg i andre nordeuropeiske land. Her fra England.
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"We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue [...] Audits of high-income taxpayers are more costly, but the additional revenue raised more than offsets the costs."
Recently accepted by #QJE, “A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution,” by Boning, Hendren, Sprung-Keyser (@bsprungkeyser.bsky.social), and Stuart: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
A Welfare Analysis of Tax Audits Across the Income Distribution
Abstract. We estimate the returns to IRS audits of taxpayers across the income distribution. We find an additional ${\$}$1 spent auditing taxpayers above t
doi.org
November 16, 2024 at 4:44 PM
"We find an additional $1 spent auditing taxpayers above the 90th income percentile yields more than $12 in revenue [...] Audits of high-income taxpayers are more costly, but the additional revenue raised more than offsets the costs."