Blar i Eksterne publiseringer / International and Nordic Publications på emneord "Income inequality"
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Inequality in current and lifetime income
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-14)To gauge inequality in living standards, the distribution of lifetime income is likely to be more relevant than the distribution of current income. Yet, empirical studies of income inequality are typically based on ... -
Measuring the benefits from public services: the effects of local government spending on the distribution of income in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2006)The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of how local public in-kind benefits affect the distribution of income in Norway. To this end, a method that accounts for differences between municipalities in capacity ... -
The regional dispersion of income inequality in nineteenth-century Norway
(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 ... -
The sensitivity of income inequality to choice of equivalence scales
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1998)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 ...