Browsing Statistics Norway's Open Research Repository (SNORRe) by Author "Almås, Ingvild"
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Baby booming inequality? Demographic change and earnings inequality in Norway, 1967–2000
Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age-structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings ... -
Older or Wealthier? : the Impact of Age Adjustments on the Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries
Almås, Ingvild; Mogstad, Magne (Discussion Papers;583, Working paper, 2009)Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to ...