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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

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 poverty and inequality estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to...

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Wealth Concentration over the Path of Development: Sweden, 1873–2006

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007

We study the development of wealth concentration in Sweden over 130 years, from the beginning of industrialization until present day. Our series are based on a wide array of new evidence from estate- and wealth tax data, estimates of foreign and domestic family firm-wealth and of pension and...

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Decomposition of the Gini Coefficient by Income Components: Various Types of Applications and Interpretations

Aaberge, Rolf; Aslaksen, Iulie - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 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 income. We pay particular attention to the problem of evaluating the...

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Local government preferences, individual needs, and the allocation of social assistance

Langørgen, Audun; Rønningen, Dag - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2004

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 benefits, evaluation of individual needs is thus required. However, the political...

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Will the Norwegian pension reform reach its goals? An integrated micro-macro assessment

Holmøy, Erling; Stensnes, Kyrre - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008

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 main redistributive features of the present system. We assess to what extent the reform...

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The Distributional Impact of the Norwegian Tax Reform Measured by Disproportionality

Thoresen, Thor Olav - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995

This paper focuses on the measurement of progressivity and the distributional effect of the Norwegian tax reform of 1992. Progressivity is measured by the degree of disproportionality, which implies that the burden of taxes is estimated when income units are ranked according to pre-tax incomes....

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The Norwegian Tax Reform; Distributional Effects and the High-income Response

Aarbu, Karl Ove; Thoresen, Thor Olav - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 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 examine the trends in average income and income distribution in the period...

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Measuring the Benefits from Public Services The Effects of Local Government Spending on the Distribution of Income in Norway

Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2003

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 in capacity to produce the same standard of public services is used for assessing the...

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Income Distribution and Labour Market Discrimination: A Case Study of Namibia

Ekström, Erika - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we … second study is to examine the differences in earnings between males and females in manufacturing, service and public sector …. The estimated earnings differences are decomposed into endowment and discrimination components using techniques by Oaxaca …

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The Evolution of Top Incomes in an Egalitarian Society; Sweden, 1903–2004

Roine, Jesper; Waldenström, Daniel - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2006

This study presents new homogenous series of top income shares in Sweden over the period 1903–2004. We find that, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the Swedish top decile drops sharply over the first...

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