Blar i Discussion Papers på forfatter "Aaberge, Rolf"

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    • Political uncertainty and household savings 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Liu, Kai; Zhu, Yu (Discussion papers;793, Working paper, 2014-12)
      Despite macroeconomic evidence pointing to a negative aggregate consumption response due to political uncertainty, few papers have used microeconomic panel data to analyze how households adjust their consumption after an ...

    • Population ageing and fiscal sustainability : an integrated micro-macro analysis of required tax changes 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Holmøy, Erling; Strøm, Birger; Wennemo, Tom (Discussion Papers;No. 367, Working paper, 2004)
      Abstract: Most studies on the economic consequences of ageing rely on Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models that account for feedback mechanisms through changes in relative prices, tax bases etc. However, since ...

    • Potential demand for alternative fuel vehicles 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Wetterwald, Dag G.; Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Papers;No. 165, Working paper, 1996)
      This paper analyzes the potential household demand for alternative fuel vehicles in Norway, by applying data from a stated preference survey. The alternative fuel vehicles we consider are liquid propane gas and electric ...

    • 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 ...

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

      Mogstad, Magne; Langørgen, Audun; Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Papers;No. 408, Working paper, 2005)
      Abstract: The standard practice in most OECD countries is to measure and evaluate poverty on the basis of a poverty line defined as a specific proportion of the median equivalent income within a country. However, this ...

    • 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 ...

    • Sampling errors and cross-country comparisons of income inequality 

      Aaberge, Rolf (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 ...

    • Social evaluation of individual welfare effects from income taxation empirical evidence based on Italian data for married couples 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; Strøm, Steinar (Discussion Papers;No. 230, Working paper, 1998)
      This paper discusses methodological principles for social evaluation of tax systems and tax reforms when concern is primarily turned to who gains and who loses. The discussion is followed by an empirical analysis based on ...

    • Stochastic properties and functional forms in life cycle : models for transitions into and out of employment 

      Dagsvik, John K.; Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Papers;No. 24, Working paper, 1987)
      The paper discusses a justification for a particular econometric framework for analysing transitions into and out of employment in an intertemporal context with uncertainty. The analysis extends the models found in the ...

    • Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo (Discussion Papers;No. 877, Working paper, 2018-06-04)
      The purpose of the paper is to provide a discussion of the various approaches for accounting for labour supply responses in microsimulation models. The paper focus attention on two methodologies for modelling labour ...

    • THE STRUCTURE OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AMONG HOUSEHOLDS LIVING IN URBAN SICHUAN AND LIAONING, 1990 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Chen, Xiaojie; Li, Jing; Li, Xuezeng (Discussion Paper;No. 70, Working paper, 1992-04)
      This paper presents the results from a descriptive analysis of economic inequality among households living in urban regions of two Chinese provinces, Sichuan and Liaoning, in 1990. The results refer to distributions of ...

    • Tax reforms, dividend policy and trends in income inequality : empirical evidence based on Norwegian data 

      Fjærli, Erik; Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Papers; No. 284, Working paper, 1999)
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    • The distributional impact of public services in European countries 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Lindgren, Petter Y. (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 dual approach for measuring multidimensional deprivation and poverty 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Peluso, Eugenio; Sigstad, Henrik (Discussion papers;820, Working paper, 2015-10)
      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 ...

    • The impact of local public services and geographical cost of living differences on poverty estimates 

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

    • 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 pattern of household savings during a hyperinflation : The case of urban China in the late 1980s 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Zhu, Yu (Discussion Papers;No. 217, Working paper, 1998)
      This paper presents evidence on household savings in urban regions of the Chinese provinces Sichuan and Liaoning based on data from the State Statistical Bureau's Urban Household Survey for the late 1980s. In this period ...

    • 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 ...

    • Tony Atkinson and his legacy 

      Aaberge, Rolf (Discussion Papers;No. 863, Working paper, 2017-09-21)
      This collective tribute highlights the range, depth and importance of Tony’s enormous legacy, the product of over fifty years’ work. Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the ...