Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Iacono, Roberto"
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A comparison of fiscal rules for resource-rich economies
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2017)This paper produces a normative evaluation of fiscal rules for a resource-rich economy. Ad hoc fiscal rules might imply substantial welfare costs; the goal is to analyze the magnitude of these costs by quantitatively ... -
Aktive vilkår og sanksjonering i arbeidslinjas aktiveringspolitikk - perspektivet til brukere under 30 år
Mikkelsen, Emma Cecilie (Bachelor thesis, 2022)Det er et sterkt fokus på aktiveringspolitikken ved arbeidslinja i Norge, fordi det er en sentral politikk som skal hjelpe stønadsmottakere ut i arbeid eller aktivitet. Denne oppgaven forsøker å finne svar på hvordan aktive ... -
Arbeidslinja, psykisk helse og individuell plan
Flaat, Arnt (Bachelor thesis, 2022)Psykiske lidelser er den viktigste årsaken til yrkeshemming. I år 2030 vil den største bidragsyteren yrkeshemming være depresjon. For mennesker som har psykiske lidelser kan det derfor være ekstra krevende å være i arbeid. ... -
The Basilicata Wealth Fund
Iacono, Roberto; Viccaro, Mauro (Journal article, 2021)This paper introduces a novel resource policy for the resource-rich southern Italian region of Basilicata. This policy consists of establishing a regionally-owned wealth fund (labeled for simplicity as the Basilicata Wealth ... -
Brukermedvirkning i den digitale aktivitetsplan
Karim, Mohamed Abdel (Bachelor thesis, 2022)Koronapandemien har bidratt til en mer digital offentlig sektor. Ifølge digitaliseringsstrategien (Kommunal og moderniseringsdepartementet, 2019) er målet med digitalisering av de offentlige sektorer å effektivisere ... -
Corporate Income Taxation and Inequality: Review and Discussion of Issues Raised in The triumph of injustice—How the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay (2019)
Faccio, Tommaso; Iacono, Roberto (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This article surveys the literature on the relationship between corporate income taxation and inequality through the lens of the recent book The triumph of injustice—How the rich dodge taxes and how to make them pay by ... -
Digitalisering: På godt og vondt
Phan, Kevin Nguyen (Bachelor thesis, 2022)Digital teknologi har under Covid-19 pandemien ført til store teknologiske endringer i samfunnet. Hensikten med utredningen har derfor vært å undersøke hvorvidt digitaliseringen har hatt en innvirkning i velferdsorganisasjonene. ... -
En barndom preget av fattigdom. Konsekvensene av å vokse opp i en lavinntektsfamilie i Norge.
Skjønstad, Linda (Bachelor thesis, 2020)Antall barn og familier som faller inn under fattigdomsgrensen har vært økende i Norge det siste tiåret. Som sosialarbeider har man et ansvar for å hjelpe marginaliserte individer og grupper som opplever fattigdom og andre ... -
Essays on the Macroeconomics of Natural Resources
Iacono, Roberto (Doctoral thesis at NTNU;2015:50, Doctoral thesis, 2015)The relationship between natural resources and the macroeconomy is the topic of this thesis, which is composed of three self-contained essays. The first essay - "On the interplay between intergenerational transfers and ... -
The Evolution of Income Composition Inequality in Italy, 1989–2016
Iacono, Roberto; Ranaldi, Marco (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)We study the evolution of inequality in income composition in terms of capital and labor income in Italy between 1989 and 2016. We document a rise in the share of capital income accruing to the bottom of the distribution, ... -
Forebygging av barnefattigdom
Safa, Ahmad Najib (Bachelor thesis, 2022)Inntektsforskjell har stor betydning for levekår og velferd. Når det gjelder barn, kan man si at Samfunnet ser på dem som framtidige kilde til økonomisk produktivitet som skal ta vare på landet. Forbedring i barns livskvalitet ... -
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state
Smedsvik, Bård; Iacono, Roberto; D'Agostino, Antonella (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)In Norway, immigrants receive higher levels of social assistance than natives. How can we explain this difference? After controlling for differences in take-up rates through a two-step Heckman procedure, we attempt to ... -
(In)visible Sanctions: Micro-level Evidence on Compulsory Activation for Young Welfare Recipients
Iacono, Roberto; Smedsvik, Bård (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Since the early years of activation and workfare in the 1990s, the use of welfare conditionality and benefit sanctions has been proposed among the necessary solutions to ensure the efficiency of welfare policy by reinforcing ... -
A Micro Perspective on r > g
Iacono, Roberto; Palagi, Elisa (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)By exploiting large-scale administrative data on income and estimated personal wealth in Norway from 2010 to 2018, this paper establishes the first micro-level analysis of the difference between the real return on wealth ... -
On the Interplay between Intergenerational Transfers and Natural Resources
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This paper studies an overlapping generations model with selfish agents, natural resources and human capital externalities. The initial result is to quantify the economic effects of intergenerational transfers by comparing ... -
Still the Lands of Equality? Heterogeneity of Income Composition in the Nordics, 1975–2016
Iacono, Roberto; Palagi, Elisa (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)According to standard measures of income inequality, the Nordic countries rank among the most equal economies in the world. This paper studies whether and how this picture changes when the focus is on inequality of income ... -
The Dutch disease revisited: absorption constraint and learning by doing
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2017)This paper revisits the Dutch disease by analyzing the general equilibrium effects of a resource shock on a dependent economy, both in a static and dynamic setting. The novel aspect of this study is to incorporate in one ... -
The Nordic Model of Economic Development and Welfare: Recent Developments and Future Prospects
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2018)The stylised evidence from the Welfare State Sustainability (WSS) ratios points to a decrease in the future sustainability of public welfare spending in the Nordic countries. -
The Norwegian Oil Bonanza and the Scandinavian Model in Comparative Perspective
Iacono, Roberto (Journal article, 2018)This paper aims at highlighting the effects of large natural resource endowments on the institutions of the so-called Scandinavian or Nordic model, through a comparative quantitative case study. Focusing on two key features ... -
Utfordringer i fosterhjemsarbeid - med fokus på det biologiske prinsipp og barnets medvirkning
Petersen, Vilde Hoff (Bachelor thesis, 2022)Denne bacheloroppgaven undersøker noen mulige utfordringer som barnevernet kan møte på i fosterhjemsarbeid. Fokuset i oppgaven ligger på det biologiske prinsipp og barnets medvirkning. Metoden som er brukt er tilnærmet en ...