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Earnings, disposable income, and consumption of allowed and rejected disability insurance applicants

Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 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 - 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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Labour Supply models

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2015

This paper is published as Chapter 7 of Handbook of Microsimulation Modelling edited by Cathal O''Donoghue, and issued … detailed discussion in relation to the development of the field of labour supply focused microsimulation models and …

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Family welfare cultures

Dahl, Gordon B.; Kostøl, Andreas Ravndal; Mogstad, Magne - 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...

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Are Lone Mothers Responsive to Policy Changes? The Effects of a Norwegian Workfare Reform on Earnings, Education, and Poverty

Pronzato, Chiara; Mogstad, Magne - 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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Evaluating Alternative Basic Income Mechanisms. A Simulation for European Countries

Colombino, Ugo - 2009

We develop and estimate a microeconometric model of household labour supply in five European countries representative of different economies and welfare policy regimes: Denmark, Italy, Norway, Portugal and United Kingdom. We then simulate, under the constraint of constant total net tax revenue,...

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Is universal child care leveling the playing field?

Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2014

. Our study also points to the importance of universal child care programs in explaining differences in earnings inequality …

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Why do wealthy parents have wealthy children?

Fagereng, Andreas; Mogstad, Magne; Rønning, Marte - 2015

Strong intergenerational correlations in wealth have fueled a long-standing debate over why children of wealthy parents tend to be well off themselves. We investigate the role of family background in determining children's wealth accumulation and investor behavior as adults. Our research design...

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Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2018

responses in microsimulation models. The paper focus attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: 1) The discrete …

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Local governments, in-kind transfers, and economic inequality

Mogstad, Magne; Aaberge, Rolf; Eika, Lasse; Langørgen, … - 2018

We examine how in-kind transfers provided by local governments affect economic inequality. The allocation of in … Norwegian data from municipal accounts and administrative registers for the period 1982- 2013. We find that economic inequality … contribution from public cash transfers. When examining the time trends in inequality, we find that local governments attenuated …

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