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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies

Thoresen, Thor Olav - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995

A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families with preschool children, from today's subsidisation of spaces at child...

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The predictive ability of poverty models. Empirical Evidence from Uganda

Mathiassen, Astrid - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008

This paper examines the performance of a particular method for predicting poverty. The method is a supplement to the approach of measuring poverty through a fully-fledged household expenditure survey. As most developing countries cannot justify the expenses of frequent household expenditure...

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A Statistical Model for Simple, Fast and Reliable Measurement of Poverty. A revised version of DP 415

Mathiassen, Astrid - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2006

The primus inter pares of the UN Millennium Development Goals is to reduce poverty. The only internationally accepted method of estimating poverty requires a measurement of total consumption based on a time and resource demanding household budget or integrated survey over 12 months. Rather than...

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The inequality effects of a dual income tax system

Lambert, Peter J.; Thoresen, Thor O. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011

The overall inequality effects of a dual income tax (DIT) system, combining progressive taxation of labor income with proportional taxation of income from capital, are investigated. Simple examples show that correlations between distributions of wage and capital income, the degree of tax rate...

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Mean-Spread-Preserving Transformations

Aaberge, Rolf - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2003

generalized versions of the mean-Gini-preserving transformation. The mean-Gini-preserving transformation, which was introduced … Gini coefficient unchanged. It will be demonstrated that the various mean-spread-preserving transformations form a useful …

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Modeling Concentration and Dispersion in Multiple Regression

Aaberge, Rolf; Bjerve, Steinar; Doksum, Kjell - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2005

. Gini introduced an index that is the average over u of the difference between the Lorenz curve and its values in the … egalitarian case. More generally, we can think of the Lorenz and Gini concepts as measures of concentration that applies to other … this paper we propose modified versions of the Lorenz and Gini measures of concentration that we relate to statistical …

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Utilitarism, Equivalence Scales and Logarithmic Utility

Brekke, Kjell Arne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1994

It is shown that if social welfare is the sum of logaritmic utility function, the optimal income distribution and the welfare effect of any income redistribution is independet of the equivalence scales. In optimum all households have the same per capita income. Based on this observation it is...

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Base independence in the analysis of tax policy effects: with an application to Norway 1992–2004

Lambert, Peter J.; Thoresen, Thor O. - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2005

The analysis contrasts results of two recently expounded micro-level data approaches to derive robust intertemporal characterizations of redistributional effects of income tax schedules; the fixed-income procedure of Kasten, Sammartino and Toder (1994) and the transplant-and-compare method of...

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The Distributional Impact of the Norwegian Tax Reform Measured by Disproportionality

Thoresen, Thor Olav - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995

This paper focuses on the measurement of progressivity and the distributional effect of the Norwegian tax reform of 1992. Progressivity is measured by the degree of disproportionality, which implies that the burden of taxes is estimated when income units are ranked according to pre-tax incomes....

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Older or Wealthier? The Impact of Age Adjustments on the Wealth Inequality Ranking of Countries

Almås, Ingvild; Mogstad, Magne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2009

factors. This new method is superior to existing methods, like the much used Paglin-Gini, which is shown to have several …

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