Browsing Artikler / Journal articles by Subject "Income distribution"
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Assimilation effects on poverty among immigrants in Norway
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)This paper discusses the question of whether or not the high incidence of poverty among immigrants in Norway persists even after immigrants have been in the country for a long period, i.e. after they have had the opportunity ... -
Axiomatic characterization of the Gini coefficient and Lorenz curve orderings
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001)This paper is concerned with distributions of income and the ordering of related Lorenz curves. By introducing appropriate preference relations on the set of Lorenz curves, two alternative axiomatic characterizations of ... -
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 ... -
The Distributional impact of public services when needs differ
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty ... -
Do more equal slices shrink the cake? An empirical investigation of tax-transfer reform proposals in Italy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004)A crucial issue in efficiency-equality evaluations of tax reforms resides in the possibility that the level as well as the distribution of welfare may change, where the household-specific measures of welfare capture the ... -
Fiscal effects of the Norwegian pension reform – A micro–macro assessment
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)The main goal of the Norwegian pension reform of 2011 is to improve long run fiscal sustainability, not least through stronger labour supply incentives. We assess to what extent the reform is likely to live up to these ... -
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 ... -
Ranking intersecting Lorenz curves
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)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 ... -
Region-specific versus country-specific poverty lines in analysis of poverty
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007)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 ...