Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring … own explain the rise in top income shares? Are top executives replacing capital owners in the group of top-income earners … framework and uses it for exploring the changing composition of top incomes. It illustrates that changes in top income shares …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The … methodology is applied to Norway, for which rich historical data sources exist. Taking careful account of the definition of income …

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 income transfers. Moreover, the approach allows for individual …

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 income transfers. Moreover, the approach allows for individual …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to cash income are not necessarily appropriate when including non …-cash income, because the receipt of public services is likely to be associated with particular needs. In this paper, we propose a …