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On the Measurement of Long-Run Income Inequality : Empirical Evidence from Norway, 1875-2013
Aaberge, Rolf - 2017
In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962273
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On the measurement of long-run income inequality : empirical evidence from Norway, 1875-2013
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen … - 2017
In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613158
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Estimating long-run income inequality from mixed tabular data : empirical evidence from Norway, 1875-2017
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen … - 2020
Most evidence on the long-run evolution of income inequality is restricted to top income shares. While this evidence is relevant and important for studying the concentration of economic power, it is incomplete as an informational basis for analysing inequality in the income distribution as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214482
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The Ins and Outs of Top Income Mobility
Aaberge, Rolf - 2014
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/10013061942
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The ins and outs of top income mobility
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen … - 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/10010211222
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Reducing income inequality in Europe
Atkinson, Anthony B. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-11
literatures. Inequality arises not only between skilled and unskilled workers, but also between labour and capital. In seeking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209771
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The long-run history of income inequality in Denmark : top incomes from 1870 to 2010
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Søgaard, J.E. - 2013
We use historical publications and - for more recent years - micro-data from the income tax and wealth tax returns to estimate the development in income inequality in Denmark over the last 140 years. The paper breaks new ground in treating the specific features of the Danish Tax system and in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009709547
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From classes to copulas : wages, capital, and top incomes
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Königs, Sebastian - 2018
own explain the rise in top income shares? Are top executives replacing capital owners in the group of top-income earners …, or are we rather witnessing a fusion of top capital and top earnings? This paper proposes an extension of the copula … can easily be decomposed into respective changes in the marginal distributions of labour and capital income and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011859597
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Estimating long-run income inequality from mixed tabular data: Empirical evidence from Norway, 1875-2017
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen … - 2020
Most evidence on the long-run evolution of income inequality is restricted to top income shares. While this evidence is relevant and important for studying the concentration of economic power, it is incomplete as an informational basis for analysing inequality in the income distribution as a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801076
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The Ins and Outs of Top Income Mobility
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jorgen Heibo - 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/10010329188