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Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
as well off as he could be by undertaking inter-period income transfers. There is long-term ex-post inequality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512115
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The Ins and Outs of Top Income Mobility
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Tony; Modalsli, Jorgen Heibo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011156459
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The ins and outs of top income mobility
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013
This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817193
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Income mobility as an equalizer of permanent income
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 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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A theory for ranking distribution functions
Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013
When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720124
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Multidimensional poverty and inequality
Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2014
This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011123421
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A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions
Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Økonomisk institutt, Universitetet i Oslo - 2014
We propose a general framework to unambiguously compare distributions functions in an economically interpretable way. Our framework provides complete ranking of any set of distributions and money metric interpretation of the social welfare level of a dominating distribution as compared to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095063
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Multidimensional poverty and inequality
Aaberge, Rolf; Brandolini, Andrea - Banca d'Italia - 2014
This paper examines different approaches to the measurement of multidimensional inequality and poverty. First, it … treatment in poverty measurement. Finally, it reviews the axiomatic approach to inequality analysis. The paper provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099670
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Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 3, pp. 193-204
In this paper, we introduce a new family of rank-dependent measures of inequality and social welfare consistent with … allows for both an ex-ante and an ex-post approach to EOp. There is long-term ex-post inequality of opportunity if … working life span. This allows us to examine how well analysis of opportunity inequality based on snapshots of income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574296
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A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions
Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884192