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@welmigntnu.bsky.social
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The research group for WELfare and MIGration (WelMig) at NTNU in Norway is an interdisciplinary research group working on issues related to welfare state, migration and integration. www.ntnu.edu/web/isa/welfare-and-mi…

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WelGain @welgain.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
🎉 New paper out in World Development by @welgain.bsky.social's PI @robertoiacono.org & Krishna Chaitanya Vadlamannati (UCD): "Unintended Consequences of Externally Aided Projects on Fiscal Transfers: A Subnational Study of India" 🔗 sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X26001439
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Unintended consequences of externally aided projects on fiscal transfers: a subnational study of India
We investigate the impact of foreign aid on inter-governmental transfers in India. While anecdotal evidence suggests that the central government subst…
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Roberto Iacono @robertoiacono.org · 23/12/2025
FYI: @lukaslehner.bsky.social @stephenpjenkin1.bsky.social @nannaschonhage.bsky.social @valeriavitelli.bsky.social @davidabell.bsky.social @baardsmed.bsky.social @ivemarx.bsky.social @welgain.bsky.social @welmigntnu.bsky.social Thanks for sharing and reposting!
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Roberto Iacono @robertoiacono.org · 23/12/2025
💶 Good salary & project money for conferences, travels, etc.🌍 Trondheim 🇳🇴 lively student city with great nature 🗓️ Application deadline: 15 February 2026. ⬇️ details & online application (via Jobbnorge) 📩 inomics.com/job/phd-cand...
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PhD Candidate in Impact Evaluation of Welfare Programs | INOMICS
The PhD position is funded by the WelGain project, financed by the Research Council of Norway. The WelGain project studies why the public debate about welfare often focuses more on the costs than on t...
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Roberto Iacono @robertoiacono.org · 23/12/2025
The three-year position is fully funded through the RCN project "WelGain - Tangible Welfare Costs & Hidden Welfare Gains: Unveiling the Counterfactual in the Evaluation of Social Programs". www.ntnu.edu/isa/welgain
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The WelGain project explores why public debates about welfare often emphasize costs more than benefits. - NTNU
WelGain – Welfare Gains.
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Roberto Iacono @robertoiacono.org · 23/12/2025
📢🚨 PhD position in my new "@welgain.bsky.social" project 🚨 📢 I am looking for a 🎓 PhD student 🎓 interested in impact evaluation, welfare programs, labor & public economics, social policy & inequality, to work with me at NTNU in Trondheim (www.ntnu.edu). (1/3) 👇
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Norwegian University of Science and Technology - NTNU
Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Located in Trondheim, Gjøvik and Ålesund. Specializing in technology and the natural sciences. 40 000 students.
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Roberto Iacono @robertoiacono.org · 19/12/2025
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Here’s what determines whether your income level rises or falls
Your work usually determines whether you manage to earn a better income compared to people around you, but not when your income falls.
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
New publication from our WelMig member @robertoiacono.org in the Socio-Economic Review!
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
New publication from our #WelMig research group leader @robertoiacono.org in @plosone.org: "The Welfare versus Work Paradox". Link to the paper here: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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The Welfare versus Work Paradox
How can countries balance work incentives and access to welfare without violating the principle that work shall always be strictly preferred to welfare? In a context in which wages stagnate or drop, a...
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Thanks @brankomilan.bsky.social 4 an amazing & enriching book presentation today for our @welmigntnu.bsky.social research group @NTNU, touching upon different hot topics (global inequality, immigration, degrowth, trade wars, wealth & politics). We hope to welcome you in Norway in person next time!
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Dear followers, we continue our series of online book presentations on the 1. of April (15-16 CET) with a conversation with @brankomilan.bsky.social, related to his forthcoming book:"The World Under Capitalism". DM to @robertoiacono.org if u are interested in joining digitally #inequality #migration
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Thanks very much @akoustov.bsky.social for a very interesting and enriching presentation. It generated a stream of Qs and interest in our WelMig research group! Welcome to Norway and NTNU at any time!
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
@baardsmed.bsky.social og @robertoiacono.org fra WelMig gruppa har skrevet kronikk om krav til aktivitet og sanksjoner til velferdsmottakere. Den kan lese her: www.forskersonen.no/kronikk-meni... #NAV #Sosialpolitikk
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NAV straffer trygde­­mottakere vilkårlig
KRONIKK: Trygdemottakere er pålagt krav til aktivitet av Nav. Likevel straffes brudd på aktivitetsplikten sjeldent. Det gjelder flere typer ytelser, inkludert sosialhjelp, dagpenger og arbeidsavklarin...
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
We look V much forward to @ivemarx.bsky.social presenting (digitally) his new book *Zero Poverty Society* academic.oup.com/book/56424 to our @welmigntnu.bsky.social research group @ NTNU this Friday 14.00-15.00 CET. DM/email @robertoiacono.org if you wish to attend digitally. #minimumincome #poverty
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Zero Poverty Society: Ensuring a Decent Income for All
Abstract. This book is about preventing poverty. The notion that every person living amidst the relative affluence of the rich world has a right to a minim
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Ive Marx @ivemarx.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Superb defense. Congrats again to the new doctor and supervisor!
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Yesterday @baardsmed.bsky.social elegantly defended his doctoral thesis at NTNU & earned his PhD in Social Policy! Opponents were @ivemarx.bsky.social & Anne Grete Tøge. Proud supervisor @robertoiacono.org & a memorable day for our research group! A thread🧵on Bård's research during these 4 yrs below
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Andreas Goldberg @acgoldberg.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
📢 One week left to apply for the PhD position in my new project 🎓 www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... #EUsky #polisky #academicsky
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Ph.D. Position in Political Science (269902) | NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Job title: Ph.D. Position in Political Science (269902), Employer: NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Deadline: Tuesday, December 10, 2024
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Roxana Gutiérrez-Romero @roxanagutz.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Fantastic book on program evaluation: regression adjustment, matching, IV, DID, LATE, and regression discontinuity. Cerulli is a superb teacher. I’ve attended a few of his courses, like Machine Learning. If you get the chance, don’t miss his sessions at Timberlake! #DataScience
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Monica Marks @monicamarks.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
My god. It’s happening. A post-Bashar Syria. The transition starts now. Make no mistake: it will be incredibly rocky. But today, take a beat to hear the soft, human joy of many Syrians as they cry, embrace, learn if wrongly jailed loved ones survived & vow “now we can go home.” 🧵
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Our new Helgasetr campus at NTNU.
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
We look very much forward to @akoustov.bsky.social's book presentation to our research group at NTNU in February 2025. DM or drop us a mail if you want to receive the invitation to join the event digitally #welmigntnu
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David Andreas Bell @davidabell.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
New study out in @asenevents.bsky.social exploring anti-immigrant attitudes across 28 post-communist countries. How applicable are Western theoretical concepts for explaining anti-immigrant outside of a Western context? Not very much, our findings suggest Open access link: bitly.cx/qJD3
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Outside the Western bubble: Explaining anti‐immigrant attitudes in 28 post‐communist countries
Most studies on anti-immigrant attitudes have been conducted within the US or in Western European countries. As a result, the theoretical frameworks utilised to comprehend these attitudes are often b...
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Outside the Western bubble: Explaining anti-immigrant attitudes in 28 post-communist countries Read the latest research from our WelMig member David Andreas Bell here: doi.org/10.1111/nana...
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Outside the Western bubble: Explaining anti‐immigrant attitudes in 28 post‐communist countries
Most studies on anti-immigrant attitudes have been conducted within the US or in Western European countries. As a result, the theoretical frameworks utilised to comprehend these attitudes are often b....
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The WelMig research group welcomes application for visiting positions. We wish to invite early-career scholars from other universities working on Welfare&Migration to physically visit us at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway. NTNU offers access to its facilities, however financial support is not provided.
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Navigating environmental fragility: (Mal)coping and adaptation strategies in the socio-environmental system of the Mtendeli Refugee Camp, Tanzania Read the latest research from our WelMig member www.ntnu.edu/employees/as... here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Navigating environmental fragility: (Mal)coping and adaptation strategies in the socio-environmental system of the Mtendeli Refugee Camp, Tanzania
The study conducts a systems analysis of coping and adaptation strategies in Tanzanian refugee camps, focusing on the Mtendeli camp as a case study. I…
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Drivers and trajectories of multinational migrations of West African international students Read the latest research from our WelMig member www.ntnu.edu/employees/ma... here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Drivers and trajectories of multinational migrations of West African international students
This article focuses on international students from West Africa and their migration trajectories. Based on in-depth interviews, we investigate the migration drivers and students' motivations to becom...
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
The Journey to Teruel: Immigrant Women’s Pathways to the Domestic Sector in Rural Spain Read the latest research from our WelMig member www.ntnu.no/ansatte/hect... here: doi.org/10.1177/2163...
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
(In)visible Sanctions: Micro-level Evidence on Compulsory Activation for Young Welfare Recipients Read the latest research from our WelMig member @robertoiacono.org here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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(In)visible Sanctions: Micro-level Evidence on Compulsory Activation for Young Welfare Recipients | Journal of Social Policy | Cambridge Core
(In)visible Sanctions: Micro-level Evidence on Compulsory Activation for Young Welfare Recipients
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
(Mis-)Perceptions, information, and political polarization: A survey and a systematic literature review Read the latest research from our WelMig member @robertoiacono.org in the European J of Political Economy here: doi.org/10.1016/j.ej...
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
We are setting up an exciting online seminar series starting in 2025. If you have some exciting research that you would like to present and receive feedback on, do not hesitate to take contact with us! You ccan contact directly the research group leader @robertoiacono.org
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Perceptions and realities: Explaining welfare chauvinism in Europe Read the latest research from our WelMig member @davidabell.bsky.social in the JESP doi.org/10.1177/0958...
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WelMig @welmigntnu.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe Read the latest research from our WelMig member @davidabell.bsky.social here: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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Who would never grant them equal rights? A comparative analysis of welfare chauvinism in Central and Eastern Europe
Welfare chauvinism is often understood as the sentiment that the benefits and services of the welfare state should primarily be given to the native population and not immigrant minorities. Using li...
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