Umeå is the municipality where the number of people that earn more than one million kronor per year is the highest in the county of Västerbotten. CERE’s Runar Brännlund comments on the statistics saying that they again provide “an image that all of Norrland is a sparsely populated area” in Västerbottens Folkblad on June 4, 2017.
In the municipality of Umeå in 2015, 669 people earned above one million Swedish kronor each year. Equaling 0,6 percent of the municipality population. The municipalities in Västerbotten closes to that percentage reaches 0,2 or 0,1 percent. It is notable that SCB, due to privacy, cannot release information if the number of people falls below four. However, according to Runar these statistics point to the differences as to where the highly productive job opportunities are:
“- The issues show that there are indeed differences in the structure of trade and industry between different places and that it is in the larger cities that the high production jobs are to be found. That is if assuming that that the high productive workplaces pay more than the low productive, he says.”
A new course offering exceeded expectations even before the first day of class. So far, 54 applications have been received for Introduction to Experimental Methods in Economics and Related Social Sciences, and they are still coming. Dr. Klarizze Puzon, course instructor and post doc at SLU forest economics and CERE, was expecting around five applicants, but has scheduled another course for 2018 to handle excess demand.
CERE member Bengt Kriström gave a lecture on the global impact of small-scale actions and the large-scale policy instruments used or often discussed when it comes to tackling greenhouse-gas emissions. The lecture was given within the SLU popular science series “Värt att veta”.
See the recorded lecture (only in Swedish, summary in English below): “Klimatpolitik i det lilla och det stora: Ett föredrag om varför bättre vedspisar i Afrika kan vara en mer effektiv klimatåtgärd än flygförbud.”
English translation of title: Climate politics small and large: a talk about why better wood ovens in Africa can be a more effective climate measure than a ban on flying.
