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A counting approach for measuring multidimensional deprivation
(Discussion papers (Statistisk sentralbyrå. Forskningsavdelingen);No. 700, Working paper, 2012)This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking and quantifying the extent of deprivation exhibited by multidimensional distributions, where the multiple attributes in which an individual can be deprived are represented ... -
A Statistical Model for Simple, Fast and Reliable Measurement of Poverty. A revised version of DP 415
(Discussion Papers;No. 415, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: The primus inter pares of the UN-approved Millennium Development Goals is to reduce poverty. The only internationally accepted method of estimating poverty requires a measurement of total consumption based on ... -
An Expenditure Based estimate of Britain's black economy revisited
(Discussion Papers;No. 414, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: The seminal paper by Pissarides and Weber (1989) is one of several previous studies trying to measure the size of the black economy. Pissarides and Weber compared the relationship between food expenditure and ... -
Base independence in the analysis of tax policy effects: with an application to Norway 1992–2004
(Discussion Papers;No. 434, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: The analysis contrasts results of two recently expounded micro-level data approaches to derive robust intertemporal characterizations of redistributional effects of income tax schedules; the fixedincome procedure ... -
Birds of a feather flock together : the impact of choice of spouse on family labor income inequality
(Discussion Papers;No. 276, Working paper, 2000)This paper discusses the effects of the substantial rise in labor force participation of married women on the level, structure and trend in family labor income inequality. An interesting question is to what extent the rise ... -
Consumption inequality in Norway in the 80s and 90s
(Discussion Papers;No. 325, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: This article describes the consumption model and inequality study of Chapter 2 in the author's unpublished Ph.D. dissertation submitted at the Dept. of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. The Norwegian ... -
Decomposition of the gini coefficient by income components : various types of applications and interpretations
(Discussion Papers;No. 182, Working paper, 1996)This paper aims at clarifying the notion "overall distributive effect" of an income component or a policy proposal and moreover discusses various approaches for assessing the distributional impact of the components of total ... -
Designing an electricity tax system in presence of international regulations and multiple public goals : an empirical assessment
(Discussion Papers;No. 555, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: The European competition rules restrict governments’ opportunity to differentiate terms of energy accessibility among firms and industries. This easily runs counter with regional and industrial goals of national ... -
Differences in Learning and Inequality
(Discussion Papers;No. 457, Working paper, 2006)Abstract: Rapid growth in productivity combined with increasing wage dispersion in some countries, notably Anglo-Saxon, has been the subject of numerous studies. The main hypothesis in the literature is that an increased ... -
Distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies
(Discussion Papers;No. 135, Working paper, 1995)A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families ... -
Distributional and environmental effects of taxes on transportation
(Discussion Papers;No. 321, Working paper, 2002)Abstract: This article studies environmental and distributional effects from a differentiated tax system on a set of disaggregated transportation goods. Empirical examination on Norwegian data indicates that higher tax ... -
Distributional effects of environmental taxes on transportation. Evidence from engel curves in the United States
(Discussion Papers;No. 428, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: Indirect taxes on transportation activities that pollute can correct externalities and close the gaps between private and social costs. However, policy makers often find such Pigou taxes difficult to implement ... -
The Distributional impact of public services when needs differ
(Discussion Papers;No. 621, Working paper, 2010)Abstract: 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 ... -
Effects of family policy reforms in Norway. Results from a joint labor supply and child care choice microsimulation analysis
(Discussion Papers;No. 450, Working paper, 2006)Mothers of preschool children represent one part of the population that might be able to increase its labor supply. We discuss effects of family policy changes that encourage the labor supply of these mothers, as child ... -
Equity versus efficiency in public pension schemes. Microsimulating the trade-off
(Discussion Papers;No. 515, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: Any contribution to a pay-as-you-go pension system may be considered mandatory savings to the extent that it gives a claim to a future benefit. Contributors to the economic literature have argued that an ... -
Evaluating the redistributional effects of tax policy changes: with an application to the 2006 Norwegian tax reform
(Discussion Papers;No. 648, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: An evaluation strategy is presented for answering the question is the tax schedule more redistributive after a reform than prior to a reform? The proposed procedure builds upon addressing measures of tax ... -
Heterogeneity and Persistence in Returns to Wealth
(Discussion Papers;912, Working paper, 2019-07)We provide a systematic analysis of the properties of individual returns to wealth using twelve years of population data from Norway’s administrative tax records. We document a number of novel results. First, individuals ... -
Horizontal inequity under a dual income tax system : principles and measurement
(Discussion Papers;No. 647, Working paper, 2011)Abstract: Tax systems with separate taxation of wage and capital income, also called dual income tax systems, have gained relevance through the Mirrlees Review. Obviously, such tax systems are exposed to horizontal equity ... -
Income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries compared to the United States
(Discussion Papers;No. 168, Working paper, 1996)This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during the 1980's. The results demonstrate that inequality is greater in the United States than in the Scandinavian ... -
Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income
(Discussion papers;769, Working paper, 2014-01)Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation ...