Browsing Eksterne publiseringer / International and Nordic Publications by Journals "Journal of Economic Inequality"
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Baby booming inequality? Demographic change and earnings inequality in Norway, 1967–2000
(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 ... -
A European equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)This paper introduces a theory-based equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers, which justifies comparison of distributions of extended income (cash income plus the value of public services) between European countries. ... -
Gini’s nuclear family
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)The purpose of this paper is to justify the use of the Gini coefficient and two close relatives for summarizing the basic information of inequality in distributions of income. To this end we employ a specific transformation ... -
Robust inequality comparisons
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree ...