This paper presents estimates of income concentration and inequality for Norway using a new comprehensive measure of … income, which identifies business income as it is earned by companies rather than when it is paid out as dividends to owners … income attributable to the top 1% of the distribution more than doubles and the Gini coefficient estimates increase by about …

This paper presents estimates of income concentration and inequality for Norway using a new comprehensive measure of … income, which identifies business income as it is earned by companies rather than when it is paid out as dividends to owners … income attributable to the top 1% of the distribution more than doubles and the Gini coefficient estimates increase by about …

When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another …; the first assesses the social welfare implications of changes in household income distributions over the business cycle …

two empirical applications; the first assesses the welfare implications of changes in household income distributions over …

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 …

examine the time trend in income and earnings inequality of Norwegian males during the period 1967-2005 …

Most evidence on the long-run evolution of income inequality is restricted to top income shares. While this evidence is … analysing inequality in the income distribution as a whole. This paper proposes a non-parametric approach for estimating … inequality in the overall distribution of income on the basis of tabular data from different sources, some in a highly aggregated …

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 …

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 … as an equalizer of permanent income. The proposed representation is called a mobility curve and forms the basis for …

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 … as an equalizer of permanent income. The proposed representation is called a mobility curve and forms the basis for …