Research

Research

Papers and projects from the Macro, Risk and Sustainability Centre.

Papers:

 

PROJECTS:

WHEN MACRO MEETS MICRO: GLOBAL CHALLENGES AND HETEROGENEOUS RESPONSES IN NORWAY

Macro-micro will contribute to a better understanding of how the transition away from a petroleum-based economy may affect the efficiency of resource allocations. The project will study the drivers, spillovers and challenges resource rich economies face and discuss Norway’s challenges in connection with technological change, robotisation and digitalization. Macro-micro will analyse inequalities arising from business cycles and challenges to the sustainability of the welfare state and study the heterogeneous effects of macroeconomic policy in Norway, addressing business cycle conditions, the shift to a greener economy, and the management of the Government Pension Fund.

Read more on the Macro-micro project page.

Equifirm: 

Challenges to shaping an inclusive work-life in rapidly changing labour markets: Firms, Human capital, and Family policy

Why are women still underrepresented in top positions, despite the fact that women have reached high education levels and labour market participation? How do careers and strategic human capital, job assignment and work organisation in firms impact gender inequalities? Do governmental policies alter wages and careers in firms? The NFR project EquiFirm aims to provide new insights on these questions of primary interest to academics, politicians, and business by analysing them from the lens of the firm.

To answer these questions EquiFirm will develop new measures of human capital development and careers within firms taking account of the organisation structure internal to firms. These are then combined with natural experiments through public policy changes, such as social and family policies. To derive quantitative results, EquiFirm will build a high-quality administrative register database of merged information on firms and workers. Combining new insights in human capital, natural experiments and high-quality data, EquiFirm aims to unfold a detailed picture of adjustments within firms. These include adjustments related to input factors to production, firm entries and closures, organisation and management as well as effects on individual labour market outcomes. Finally, EquiFirm intends to expand our understanding of the cost-effectiveness of public policies and their effects on social equality from the firm perspective. EquiFirm combines methods and interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, sociology, psychology, organization theory and finance.

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PROSJEKTBANKEN

Work, wealth, and welfare

«I3W – Inequality in work, wealth, and welfare» aims at generating empirical knowledge and novel theories to explain the joint distribution of work, wealth, and welfare in the population using macroeconomic theory, structural quantitative models, and micro data.

`My goal as a researcher is to understand the extent of the drivers behind, and the aggregate consequences of the inequality we observe in society. However, inequality is a multi-dimensional concept, and with this project I hope to contribute to our understanding of inequality in society at the intersection of macroeconomics, labor, health, and demography´, says Jonna Olsson.

Jonna Olsson has been awarded Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellowship of approximately NOK 2.4 million.

Read more on Paraplyen.

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