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    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Unemployment shocks and income distribution : how did the Nordic countries fare during their crises? 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Pedersen, Peder J.; Smith, Nina; Wennemo, Tom (Discussion Papers;No. 201, Working paper, 1997)
      We analyse how inequality of disposable income evolved in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the late 1980s and early 1990s when unemployment rose dramatically in all four countries. We find that a standard measure ...

    • 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 ...