Blar i Discussion Papers på emneord "Income distribution"
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Alternatives to paying child benefit to the rich: means testing or higher tax?
(Discussion Paper;No. 969, Working paper, 2021-11)The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 implies that the US is effectively moving towards a general child benefit. However, the amount paid out is dependent on income, similar to schemes in several other countries. In the ... -
Asymptotic distribution theory of empirical rank-dependent measures of inequality
(Discussion Papers;No. 402, Working paper, 2005)Abstract: A major aim of most income distribution studies is to make comparisons of income inequality across time for a given country and/or compare and rank different countries according to the level of income inequality. ... -
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 ... -
Choosing measures of inequality for empirical applications
(Discussion Papers;No. 158, Working paper, 1995)This paper is concerned with the distribution of income and the problem of choosing summary measures of inequality for empirical applications. By introducing a simple transformation of the Lorenz curve one is led to three ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A european equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers
(Discussion Paper;No. 977, Working paper, 2022-05)This paper introduces a theory-based equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers, which justifies comparison of distributions of extended income (cash income plus the value of public services) between European countries. ... -
Fiscal effects of the Norwegian pension reform – A micro-macro assessment
(Discussion Papers;No. 821 (2015), Working paper, 2015)The main goal of the Norwegian pension reform of 2011 is to improve long run fiscal sustainability, not least through stronger labour supply incentives. We assess to what extent the reform is likely to live up to these ... -
Local government preferences, individual needs, and the allocation of social assistance
(Discussion Papers;No. 380, Working paper, 2004)Abstract: Governments that pursue welfare and equalization goals frequently target cash transfers to individuals that suffer from limited economic opportunities and poverty. To achieve the desired allocation of welfare ... -
Measuring income inequality under restricted interpersonal comparability
(Discussion Papers;No. 498, Working paper, 2007)Abstract: The standard approach in empirical analyses of income distributions is to estimate income inequality in a country under the assumption of full interpersonal comparability of income. To be meaningful, this method ... -
Measuring the benefits from public services : the effects of local government spending on the distribution of income in Norway
(Discussion Papers;No. 339, Working paper, 2003)Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to provide an evaluation of how local public in-kind benefits affect the distribution of income in Norway. To this end, a method that accounts for differences between municipalities ... -
The Norwegian tax reform : distributional effects and the high-income response
(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 ... -
Unemployment shocks and income distribution : how did the Nordic countries fare during their crises?
(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 ... -
Welfare effects of proportional taxation: empirical evidence from Italy, Norway and Sweden
(Discussion Papers;No. 171, Working paper, 1996)This paper employs a particular labor supply model to examine the welfare effects from replacing current tax systems in Italy, Norway and Sweden by proportional taxation on labor income. The results show that there are ... -
Will the Norwegian pension reform reach its goals? : an integrated micro-macro assessment
(Discussion Papers;No. 557, Working paper, 2008)Abstract: The Norwegian pension reform of 2006 intends to (1) improve long run fiscal sustainability by reducing the growth in public old-age expenditures, (2) strengthen labour supply incentives, and (3) maintain the ...