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Micro and macro evidence of the relationship between income mobility and taxation

Cappelen, Ådne; Hattrem, Aurora G.; Thoresen, Thor Olav - 2024

How taxation influences income mobility is largely a neglected topic. In this study we discuss the relationship between taxation and income mobility by analyzing both macro and micro data. Administrative register data based on income tax returns are used to produce individual and aggregate...

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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 in the series Contributions to Economic Analysis by Emerald Publishing Group. The purpose of the paper is to provide a detailed discussion in relation to the development of the...

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On the relation between income inequality and happiness: Do fairness perceptions matter?

Bjørnskov, Christian; Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A.V. - 2009

less in favor of income redistribution. In societies with a high level of actual social mobility, income inequality is …In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the perceived fairness of the … income generation process affects this association. Building on a two-period model of individual life-time utility …

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Taxation of housing. Killing several birds with one stone

Bø, Erlend Eide - 2015

The Norwegian public policy debate regularly returns to the private housing market. Housing prices have increased by 200 percent in real terms over the last two decades, a large share of households have high debt ratios, and new home buyers face large costs to enter the housing market. In...

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From Classes to Copulas: Wages, capital, and top incomes

Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Königs, Sebastian - 2018

Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings, and the soaring pay for top executives and financial-sector employees. But can the change in the marginal distribution of earnings on its own explain the rise in top income shares? Are top...

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Structural Labour Supply Models and Microsimulation

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - 2018

The purpose of the paper is to provide a discussion of the various approaches for accounting for labour supply responses in microsimulation models. The paper focus attention on two methodologies for modelling labour supply: 1) The discrete choice model. 2) The random utility – random...

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The Distributional Impact of the Norwegian Tax Reform Measured by Disproportionality

Thoresen, Thor Olav - 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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