• Estimating long-run income inequality from mixed tabular data: Empirical evidence from Norway, 1875-2017 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen (Discussion Paper;No. 928, Working paper, 2020-05)
      Most evidence on the long-run evolution of income inequality is restricted to top income shares. While this evidence is relevant and important for studying the concentration of economic power, it is incomplete as an ...
    • From Classes to Copulas: Wages, capital, and top incomes 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Königs, Sebastian (Discussion Papers;No. 876, Working paper, 2018-06-04)
      Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings, and the soaring pay for top executives and financial-sector employees. But can the change in the marginal distribution ...
    • On the measurement of long-run income inequality: Empirical evidence from Norway, 1875-2013 

      Modalsli, Jørgen; Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B. (Discussion Papers;No. 847, Working paper, 2016-10-04)
      In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records ...
    • 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 ...
    • Top Incomes in Norway 

      Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B. (Discussion Papers;No. 552, Working paper, 2008)
      The shares of top incomes in Norway are of considerable intrinsic interest, since the series constructed in this chapter starts as far back as 1875. Based on the same source – the municipal and central government income ...