dc.contributor.author | Aaberge, Rolf | |
dc.contributor.author | Atkinson, Anthony B. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-06T22:10:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-06T22:10:14Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/180127 | |
dc.description.abstract | 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 tax records – the series allows us to trace the
evolution of the top of the income distribution over a period when Norway industrialised and
then became oil-rich. The Norwegian experience is also of interest on a comparative basis.
The studies in Atkinson and Piketty (2007) have shown how income inequality at the top of
the distribution has increased in Anglo-Saxon countries, whereas the same rise in top income
shares was not experienced by Continental European countries – at least up to the late 1990s.
It is therefore interesting to explore what has happened in Scandinavia. The present chapter
examines the evidence for Norway, as well as making a comparison with other countries. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Statistics Norway | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Discussion Papers;No. 552 | |
dc.subject | Inntekter | en_US |
dc.subject | Norge | en_US |
dc.subject | Skatter | en_US |
dc.subject | Inntektsfordeling | en_US |
dc.subject | Inntektsskatt | en_US |
dc.title | Top Incomes in Norway | en_US |
dc.type | Working paper | en_US |
dc.subject.nsi | VDP::Social science: 200::Economics: 210::Economics: 212 | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 37 s. | en_US |