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Jørgen Modalsli
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Professor, Oslo Metropolitan University. Economics, economic history
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Jeg har skrevet om sløseridebatt, offentlig pengebruk og om å prioritere velferd. Det er ikke sløsing å bruke penger på velferd, det er en prioritering. Og skal vi beholde velferdsstaten i fremtiden må vi sannsynligvis regne med at den blir dyrere. Les hvorfor her:
(+) Hvis vi vil beholde velferdsstaten, må vi regne med å bruke mer penger på den
At offentlig sektor er blitt dyr i drift, skyldes ikke at vi bruker for mye penger eller er uproduktive. Grunnen er at vi er ekstremt produktive. Det bør både sløserikritikerne og velferdsstatsforkjem...
www.morgenbladet.no
November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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New working paper! *Measuring long-run wealth inequality: Empirical results for Norway 1912-2019* (with Aaberge and Solbakken) We estimate wealth inequality in Norway based on a set of historical and contemporary sources. www.ssb.no/en/inntekt-o...
October 30, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Turns out history does help you understand the present
erikangner.com Erik Angner @erikangner.com · Oct 13
That's like four economics awards in a row with a substantial economic-history component, right? That strikes me as a remarkable shift. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists...
October 13, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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New working paper! *Female labor force participation in historical census microdata*, available at EHES: ehes.org/wp/EHES_282.... . Female labor force participation is well measured in the Norwegian 1910 Census, and the available micro data is well suited for economic analysis (with some caveats).
Female labor force participation in historical census microdata By: Jørgen Modalsli ABSTRACT How reliable is historical microdata? Understanding historical labor force participation is crucial for assessing long-term trends in economic development and intergenerational mobility. Most existing historical studies are, however, limited to men, and little is known about how reliable quantitative historical sources are when studying labor market outcomes for women. This paper documents that the measurement of women's economic activity in the 1910 Norwegian population census had a high level of consistency. There is extensive discussion of measurement issues in historical census reports, micro data can reproduce historical census tables with a high degree of accuracy, and other contemporary reports such as industrial censuses and tax statistics confirm the results found in the census. In addition, a double-enumeration feature of the Norwegian census is leveraged to assess consistency between enumerators, finding no indication that precision in the occupational classification of women is any lower than for men. Some potential sources of downward bias are found in the historical census microdata set provided by IPUMS. Based on the results in this paper, historical census data appears well suited to study economic activity using modern econometric methods, for women as well as men. A slight upward revision of the 39\% female labor force participation in Norway in 1910 might be in order.
October 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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Her er noen "hva om"-utregninger etter stortingsvalgresultatet 2025. Alt med forbehold om feil, og at resultatene heller ikke er helt klare ennå (foreløpige tall er lastet ned fra valg.no). Mandatfordelingen med disse tallene er altså:
September 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Calvin & Hobbes, July 1989
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!"
June 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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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++!
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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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.
matheasagdahl.bsky.social Mathea @matheasagdahl.bsky.social · May 16
Disse anti-Ukrainske plakatene tar opp 100% av reklameplassen i samtlige vogner på T-banen. Dette må koste en formue.

Finnes det noen gravejournalister igjen i dette landet som kan gjøre jobben sin og følge pengesporet tilbake til de russiske kildene?
May 16, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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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
May 17, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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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
April 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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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-...
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...
www.oslomet.no
December 19, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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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-...
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...
www.oslomet.no
December 19, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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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
November 29, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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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...
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\%.
November 26, 2024 at 9:10 AM
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I made a starting pack with colleagues at Oslo Business School / Handelshøyskolen OsloMet go.bsky.app/Qth1ydg @oslomet.bsky.social
November 26, 2024 at 7:51 AM
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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 📉📈
November 12, 2024 at 9:55 PM
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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 👇 
November 7, 2024 at 11:33 AM
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💥 Call for Papers: 3rd Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games in Economic History 💥

BI-Norwegian Business School
📅 31 January 2025

📄 CfP deadline: 18 October

*John Williams intensifies*

#econhist #EconSky #skystorians
September 9, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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A log Galton board can give an intuition about the drivers of the skewed shape of income distributions.

Every success can offer people subsequent opportunities to gain much more while early failures shrink future opportunities
Excellent animation by @babeheim.bsky.social
September 25, 2024 at 1:48 PM
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Starter pack for #econhist:

go.bsky.app/U6KyhNv

I'm sure I missed some people, so let me know if that's you—or get in touch if I wrongly accused you of being one of us!
September 3, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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🚨Call for Papers🚨

2nd Norwegian 🇳🇴 Winter Games in Economic History

Organized by the Norsk Økonomisk Historisk Forening and hosted by Universitetet i Oslo

Send your abstract to 📩 norwegianeconhist@gmail.com by 16 October!
A call for papers for the 2nd Norwegian Winter Games in Economic History. The full call can be found at http://www.okonomiskhistorie.no/?p=1603
October 11, 2023 at 8:43 AM