Browsing Statistisk sentralbyrås publikasjonsserier / Published by Statistics Norway by Subject "JEL classification: D63"

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    • On Equity and Public Pricing in Developing Countries 

      Mohn, Klaus (Discussion papers;123, Working paper, 1994-08)
      With address to developing countries, this paper derives some formulae for the optimal price structure for publicly provided private goods. A general equilibrium model is examined, which makes it possible to incorporate ...

    • Ranking intersecting Lorenz curves 

      Aaberge, Rolf (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 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne (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 ...

    • The Assumption of equal marginal utility of income : how much does it matter? 

      Medin, Hege; Nyborg, Karine; Bateman, Ian (Discussion Papers;No. 241, Working paper, 1998)
      In most applied cost-benefit analyses, individual willingness to pay is aggregated without using explicit welfare weights. This can be justified by postulating a utilitarian social welfare function, along with the assumption ...

    • The distributional impact of the Norwegian tax reform measured by disproportionality 

      Thoresen, Thor Olav (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 ins and outs of top income mobility 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen (Discussion papers;762, Working paper, 2013-10)
      This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has ...

    • The median as watershed 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B. (Discussion papers;749, Working paper, 2013-08)
      This paper is concerned with concepts – poverty, inequality, affluence, and polarization – that are typically treated in different literatures. Our aim here is to place them within a common framework and to identify the ...

    • The Norwegian tax reform : distributional effects and the high-income response 

      Aarbu, Karl Ove; Thoresen, Thor Olav (Discussion Papers;No. 207, Working paper, 1997)
      Are we better or worse off after the Norwegian tax reform of 1992 and how has the reform influenced the income sizes and the distribution of total income? This question denotes our twofold analysis in this paper. We first ...

    • To what extent do fiscal regimes equalize opportunities for income acquisition among citizens? 

      Roemer, John E.; Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Fritzell, Johan; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Marx, Ive; Page, Marianne; Pommer, Evert; Ruiz-Castillo, Javier; SanSegundo, Maria Jesus; Tranaes, Torben; Wagner, Gert G.; Zubiri, Ignacio (Discussion Papers;No. 272, Working paper, 2000)
      This project employs the theory of equality of opportunity, described in Roemer’s book (Equality of Opportunity, Harvard University Press, 1998), to compute the extent to which tax-and-transfer regimes in ten countries ...

    • Tout est au mieux dans ce meilleur des ménages possibles : The Pangloss critique of equivalence scales 

      Lind, Jo Thori (Discussion Papers;No. 296, Working paper, 2001)
      Abstract: A common approach to defining equivalence scales is to consider a household modelled as if it maximizes a single utility function. This may be founded on an assumption of the household maximizing a welfare ...

    • Utilitarism, Equivalence Scales and Logarithmic Utility 

      Brekke, Kjell Arne (Discussion papers;118, Working paper, 1994-05)
      It is shown that if social welfare is the sum of logarithmic utility function, the optimal income distribution and the welfare effect of any income redistribution is independent of the equivalence scales. In optimum all ...