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 …

regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the differences in returns to education across the wage distribution and across time …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …