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 …

Microsimulation models of the LOTTE system are key tools for tax policy-making in Norway and are extensively used in … microsimulation models, we give examples of how the models are used in practical and academic work. …

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

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 …

The standard approach in empirical analyses of income distributions is to estimate income inequality in a country under … paper, we pursue two alternative approaches to measure inequality under restricted interpersonal comparability of income … indicates that both levels and trends in overall inequality as well as the inequality contributions of various income factors …