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    • Decomposing Global Inequality 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-25)
      This paper provides an intuitive additive decomposition of the global income Gini coefficient with respect to differences within and between countries. In 2005, nearly half the total global income inequality is due to ...

    • Estimating occupational mobility with covariates 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-08)
      The Altham statistic is often used to calculate intergenerational associations in occupations in studies of historical social mobility. This paper presents a method to incorporate individual covariates into such estimates ...

    • Inequality in the very long run: inferring inequality from data on social groups. 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-06)
      This paper presents a new method for calculating Gini coefficients from tabulations of the mean income of social classes. Income distribution data from before the Industrial Revolution usually come in the form of such ...

    • Intergenerational Mobility in Norway, 1865–2011 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-16)
      There are large differences in intergenerational mobility between countries. Little is known, however, about how persistent such differences are, and how they evolve over time. This paper constructs a data set of 835,537 ...

    • Skjev kjønnsbalanse i toppen av inntektsfordelingen 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-25)
      Denne artikkelen dokumenterer at kjønnssammensetningen er svært skjev blant de med høyest inntekt. Artikkelen presenterer utviklingen i andel kvinner og menn i topp 10, 1 og 0,1 prosent i Norge de siste tiårene, og ...

    • The regional dispersion of income inequality in nineteenth-century Norway 

      Modalsli, Jørgen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017-09-12)
      This paper documents, for the first time, municipality- and occupation-level estimates of income inequality between individuals in a European country in the nineteenth century, using a combination of several detailed data ...

    • Who benefited from industrialization? The local effects of hydropower technology adoption in Norway 

      Leknes, Stefan; Modalsli, Jørgen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      This paper studies the impact of the construction of hydropower facilities on labor market outcomes in Norway at the turn of the twentieth century (1891–1920). The sudden breakthrough in hydropower technology provides a ...