I forrige nummer av Sosialokonomen ga professor Tor Hersoug utredningen om inntektsdannelsen i Norge (NOU 1988:24) en kritisk omtale. En del av hans innvendinger er knyttet til kapitlet om den personlige inntektsfor ...

Second-degree dominance has become a widely accepted criterion for ordering distribution functions according to social welfare. However, it provides only a partial ordering, and it may fail to rank distributions that ...

The standard practice in most OECD countries is to identify the poor on the basis of a country-specific poverty line defined as a fraction of the median equivalent income. However, this approach disregards regional differences ...

The purpose of the paper is to provide a discussion of the various approaches for accounting for labour supply responses in microsimulation models. The paper focus attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: ...

To account for the fact that a household's needs depend on its size and composition most studies on income inequality adjust the observed household incomes by equivalence scales. However, since the rationale for choosing ...

I den norske personbeskatningen er statsskatten på bruttoinntekt utformet slik at marginalskatten blir høyere (opp til et visst nivå) jo høyere arbeidsinntekten er. I dag er høyeste marginalskatt knappe 50 prosent. ...