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Region-Specific versus Country-specific Poverty Lines in Analysis of Poverty

Mogstad, Magne; Langørgen, Audun; Aaberge, Rolf - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2005

The standard practice in most OECD countries is to measure and evaluate poverty on the basis of a poverty line defined as a specific proportion of the median equivalent income within a country. However, this approach disregards regional differences in prices and needs within a country and may,...

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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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To What Extent Is a Transition into Employment Associated with an Exit from Poverty

Galloway, Taryn Ann - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2004

A link between lack of employment and poverty is often made implicitly, but can be difficult to enumerate in a satisfactory manner. We would therefore like to ask the question: to what extent does acquiring employment increase a poor household’s probability of exiting poverty? Register data...

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A Statistical Model for Simple, Fast and Reliable Measurement of Poverty. A revised version of DP 415

Mathiassen, Astrid - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2006

The primus inter pares of the UN Millennium Development Goals is to reduce poverty. The only internationally accepted method of estimating poverty requires a measurement of total consumption based on a time and resource demanding household budget or integrated survey over 12 months. Rather than...

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On the Definition and Measurement of Chronic Poverty

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2007

As an alternative to the conventional methods for measuring chronic poverty, this paper proposes an interpersonal comparable measure of permanent income as a basis for defining and measuring chronic poverty. This approach accounts for the fact that individuals regularly undertake inter-period...

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Do Immigrants Integrate Out of Poverty in Norway

Galloway, Taryn Ann - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2006

In light of the riots and unrest among immigrants in France during the fall of 2005, the question of how immigrants are faring with respect to a certain minimum in society is both a timely and pertinent question for a number of European countries. In Norway, the prevalence of poverty is...

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Inequality in current and lifetime income

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012

, contemporary empirical studies of income inequality are typically based on observations of income for one or a few years. This … inequality in current and lifetime income. We apply these results to assess the role of so-called life-cycle bias in empirical … analysis of income inequality that uses current income variables as proxies for lifetime income. Our results suggest that …

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Distributional benchmarking in tax policy evaluations

Thoresen, Thor O.; Jia, Zhiyang; Lambert, Peter J. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013

Given an objective to exploit cross-sectional micro data to evaluate the distributional effects of tax policies over a time period, the practitioner of public economics will find that the relevant literature offers a wide variety of empirical approaches. For example, studies vary with respect to...

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Sufficient Welfare Indicators Allowing Disagreement in Evaluations of Social Welfare

Brekke, Kjell Arne; Lurås, Hilde; Nyborg, Karine - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1994

There is no consensus on how to measure interpersonally comparable, cardinal utility. Despite of this, people repeatedly make welfare evaluations in their everyday lives. However, people do not always agree on such evaluations, and this is one important reason for political disagreements. Thus,...

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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

income component. This result gives a clarification of the difference between contribution to inequality and (marginal …) effect on inequality. …

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