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Inequality and growth in the very long run: Inferring inequality from data on social groups
(Discussion papers;734, Working paper, 2013-02)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 ... -
Inequality in current and lifetime income
(Discussion papers;726, Working paper, 2012-12)Standard theory of intertemporal choice predicts that people smooth out life-cycle changes in income by borrowing and saving, such that their standard of living in any given year depends more on lifetime income than on ... -
Is the distribution of income compatible with s stable distribution?
(Discussion Papers;No. 246, Working paper, 1999)Mandelbrot (1961) proposed to apply the class of Pareto-Levy distributions - which belong to the Stable distributions - as a framework for modelling income distributions. He also presented theoretic arguments in favor ... -
Is universal child care leveling the playing field?
(Discussion papers;774, Working paper, 2014-03)We assess the case for universal child care programs in the context of a Norwegian reform which led to a large-scale expansion of subsidized child care. We use non-linear difference-in-differences methods to estimate the ... -
Labour Supply models
(Discussion papers;807, Working paper, 2015-04)This paper is published as Chapter 7 of Handbook of Microsimulation Modelling edited by Cathal O’Donoghue, and issued in the series Contributions to Economic Analysis by Emerald Publishing Group. The purpose of the paper ... -
Local government preferences, individual needs, and the allocation of social assistance
(Discussion Papers;No. 380, Working paper, 2004)Abstract: Governments that pursue welfare and equalization goals frequently target cash transfers to individuals that suffer from limited economic opportunities and poverty. To achieve the desired allocation of welfare ... -
Local governments, in-kind transfers, and economic inequality
(Discussion papers;888, Working paper, 2018-11)We examine how in-kind transfers provided by local governments affect economic inequality. The allocation of in-kind transfers to households and the adjustment for differences in needs are derived from a model of local ... -
Making Sen’s capability approach operational. A random scale framework
(Discussion papers;710, Working paper, 2012-10)Amartya Sen has developed the so-called capability approach to meet the criticism that income alone may be insufficient as a measure of economic inequality. This is because knowledge about people’s income does not tell us ... -
Mean-spread-preserving transformations
(Discussion Papers;No. 360, Working paper, 2003)Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to define various mean-spread-preserving transformations, which can be considered as generalized versions of the mean-Gini-preserving transformation. The mean-Ginipreserving tran ... -
Measuring income inequality under restricted interpersonal comparability
(Discussion Papers;No. 498, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: The standard approach in empirical analyses of income distributions is to estimate income inequality in a country under the assumption of full interpersonal comparability of income. To be meaningful, this method ... -
Measuring the benefits from public services : the effects of local government spending on the distribution of income in Norway
(Discussion Papers;No. 339, Working paper, 2003)Abstract: 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 ... -
Modeling concentration and dispersion in multiple regression
(Discussion Papers;No. 412, Working paper, 2005)We consider concepts and models that are useful for measuring how strongly the distribution of a positive response Y is concentrated near a value y0 > 0 with a focus on how concentration varies as a function of covariates. ... -
Older or Wealthier? : the Impact of Age Adjustments on the Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries
(Discussion Papers;583, Working paper, 2009)Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this finding relies on cross-section data, we may confuse older with wealthier. We propose a new method to ... -
Ranking intersecting Lorenz curves
(Discussion Papers;No. 271, Working paper, 2000)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 ... -
Robust inequality comparisons
(Discussion Papers;No. 623, Working paper, 2010)Abstract: 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 ... -
Sampling errors and cross-country comparisons of income inequality
(Discussion Papers;No. 252, Working paper, 1999)The growing interest in cross-national comparisons of income inequality is primarily a result of the establishment of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database and the wide range of studies on income inequality based on ... -
Tax reforms, dividend policy and trends in income inequality : empirical evidence based on Norwegian data
(Discussion Papers; No. 284, Working paper, 1999)Abstracts -
The distributional impact of public services in European countries
(Discussion papers;746, Working paper, 2013-06)The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of including the value of public health care, longterm care, education and childcare on estimates of income inequality and financial poverty in 23 European countries. The ... -
The distributional impact of the Norwegian tax reform measured by disproportionality
(Discussion papers;146, Working paper, 1995-06)This paper focuses on the measurement of progressivity and the distributional effect of the Norwegian tax reform of 1992. Progressivity is measured by the degree of disproportionality, which implies that the burden of taxes ... -
The impact of local public services and geographical cost of living differences on poverty estimates
(Discussion Papers;no. 551, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: Despite a broad consensus on the need to account for the value of public services and geographical cost of living differences on the measurement of poverty, there is little reliable evidence on how these factors ...