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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurcance applicants
Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015
Two key questions in thinking about the size and growth of the disability insurance program are to what extent it discourages work, and how valuable the insurance is to individuals and families. These questions motivate our paper. We begin by describing the earnings, disposable income and...
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Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …
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Family Welfare Cultures
Dahl, Gordon B.; Mogstad, Magne; Kostol, Andreas Ravndal - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2014
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fuelled a long- standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a causal relationship in welfare receipt across generations has created a...
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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty
Mogstad, Magne; Pronzato, Chiara - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008
The generous Nordic model of welfare is commonly viewed as an exceptional success both in terms of equality and economic growth. However, it has recently become evident that subgroups of the population with weak labour market attachment and high welfare dependency, such as lone mothers, were...
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Family welfare cultures
Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
Strong intergenerational correlations in various types of welfare use have fueled a long-standing debate over whether welfare receipt in one generation causes welfare participation in the next generation. Some claim a causal relationship in welfare receipt across generations has created a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817206
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Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Earnings Inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almas, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
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 …
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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?
Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
. Our study also points to the importance of universal child care programs in explaining differences in earnings inequality …
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The distributional impact of public services when needs differ
Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep; Langørgen, Audun; … - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2010
, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and administrative registers we find that the inclusion of non-cash income reduces income inequality by about 15 percent … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …
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The Impact of Local Public Services and Geographical Cost of Living Differences on Poverty Estimates
Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Mogstad, Magne; … - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008
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 actually affect poverty estimates. Unlike the standard approach in studies of the...
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Older or Wealthier? The Impact of Age Adjustments on the Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries
Almås, Ingvild; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2009
Differences in individual wealth holdings are widely viewed as a driving force of economic inequality. However, as this … in cross-sections, which eliminates transitory wealth inequality due to age, yet preserves inequality arising from other … yield erroneous wealth inequality rankings of countries. …
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