We provide an overview of microsimulation approaches for assessing the effects of policy on income distribution. We … focus on the role of tax-benefit policies and review the concept of microsimulation and how it contributes to the analysis …

groups is also necessary for understanding and interpreting international comparisons of overall inequality. This paper …

In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in … inequality over time are due to changes in the age-structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male … Norwegian over the period 1967-2000. We find that the substantial rise in earnings inequality over the 1980s and into the early …

groups is also necessary for understanding and interpreting international comparisons of overall inequality. This paper …

income inequality. To these ends, we use rich data from the U.S. and Norway over the period 1980-2007. We find evidence of … assortative mating by academic major. These findings motivate and guide a decomposition analysis, where we quantify the … non-negligible part of the cross-sectional inequality in household income. However, changes in assortative mating over …