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    • Accounting for family background when designing optimal income taxes: a microeconometric simulation analysis 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike ...

    • Decomposition of rank-dependent measures of inequality by subgroups 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Bjerve, Steinar; Doksum, Kjell (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2005)
      Summary - The purpose of additive subgroup decomposition is to study the relationship between overall inequality and inequality within and between population subgroups defined by variables like gender, age, education and ...

    • Axiomatic characterization of the Gini coefficient and Lorenz curve orderings 

      Aaberge, Rolf (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 ...

    • Do more equal slices shrink the cake? An empirical investigation of tax-transfer reform proposals in Italy 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Strøm, Steinar (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 ...

    • Assimilation effects on poverty among immigrants in Norway 

      Galloway, Taryn Ann; Aaberge, Rolf (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 ...

    • Region-specific versus country-specific poverty lines in analysis of poverty 

      Mogstad, Magne; Langørgen, Audun; Aaberge, Rolf (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 ...

    • Evaluating alternative representations of the choice sets in models of labour supply 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Wennemo, Tom (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2009)
      During the last two decades, the discrete-choice modelling of labour supply decisions has become increasingly popular, starting with Aaberge et al. (1995) and van Soest (1995). Within the literature adopting this approach ...

    • Gini’s nuclear family 

      Aaberge, Rolf (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 ...

    • Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Abstract In this paper, we introduce a new family of rank-dependent measures of inequality and social welfare consistent with the equality of opportunity (EOp) principle. The proposed framework can be used to measure ...

    • Ranking intersecting Lorenz curves 

      Aaberge, Rolf (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 ...

    • Sysselsettingseffekter av redusert arbeidsgiveravgift : simulering med en økonometrisk makromodell 

      Kolsrud, Dag; Nesset, Erik (Tidsskriftartikkel, 1992)
      Sysselsettingseffekten av å redusere arbeidsgiveravgiften avhenger av antakelser om «adferd» på såvel arbeidsgiver- som på arbeidstakersiden. I denne analysen forsøker vi å spenne ut mulighetsområdet for denne ...

    • Langtidsprogrammet 1982-1985 

      Bjerkholt, Olav (Journal article, 1981)
      Langtidsprogrammet har sin opprinnelse i Gerhardsenepokens stabile politiske og økonomiske regime fra 1945 til 1965. Det falt tidlig inn i et mønster der det ble offentliggjort få måneder fOr et Stortingsvalg og med ...

    • Gratiskvoter til industrien - ikke så enkelt 

      Holtsmark, Bjart (Journal article, 1999)
      Stortinget ønsker et norsk marked for omsettelige utslippstillatelser (kvoter) for klimagasser og et offentlig utvalg utreder dette. Et vanskelig tema er gratiskvoter som virkemiddel for å sikre opprettholdelse av ...

    • Empirical rules of thumb for choice under uncertainty 

      Aaberge, Rolf (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Abstract: A substantial body of empirical evidence shows that individuals overweight extreme events and act in conflict with the expected utility theory. These findings were the primary motivation behind the development ...

    • Fra kvotebørsen til petroleumsmarkedene 

      Holtsmark, Bjart (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1999)
      Kyotoprotokollen tallfester grenser for de enkelte industrilandenes utslipp av klimagasser i perioden 2008-2012, men åpner for en viss grad av overføring av forplikterlser mellom landene. Om noen år kan derfor et nytt ...

    • Skattereformen betraktet som et naturlig eksperiment 

      Thoresen, Thor Olav; Aarbu, Karl Ove (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2000)
      I de siste årene har det vært en livlig diskusjon i USA omkring resultatene fra analyser som behandler skattereformer som "naturlige eksperiment". Etter Feldsteins (1995) påvisning av store effekter på skattbar inntekt av ...

    • Generasjonsregnskapet og statens underskudd 

      Holtsmark, Bjart (Journal article, 1993)
      I august i år la professor E. Steigum, sammen med sine amerikanske kolleger A.J. Auerbach, J. Gokhale og L.J. Kotlikoff, frem et såkalt generasjonsregnskap for Norge; Steigum et al. (1993). Med dette "regnskapet" mener ...

    • Fiscal and spending behavior of local governments : Identification of price effects when prices are not observed 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2003)
      Abstract. This paper analyzes local public fiscal and spending behavior in a setting where local governments, represented by the dominant party or coalition, are treated as utility maximizing agents. The econometric ...

    • Labor supply responses and welfare effects from replacing current tax rules by a flat tax: Empirical evidence from Italy, Norway and Sweden 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Strøm, Steinar (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2000)
      This paper employs a microeconometric framework to examine the labor supply responses and the welfare effects from replacing current tax systems in Italy, Norway and Sweden by a flat tax on total income. The flat tax rates ...

    • Hvor pålitelige er fordelingsanalysene? 

      Thoresen, Thor Olav (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1995)
      Hensikten med denne artikkelen er å redegjøre for usikkerhet omkring resultatene i analysen av fordelingseffekter av skatter og overføringer. Det fokuseres på modellverktøy en har til rådighet ved simuleringer av skatter ...