Browsing Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet by Author "Aaberge, Rolf"

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  • A European equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers 
    Aaberge, Rolf; Langørgen, Audun; Lindgren, Petter Y. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    Abstract This paper introduces a theory-based equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers, which justifies comparison of distributions of extended income (cash income plus the value of public services) between European ...
  • Characterization and measurement of duration dependence in hazard rates models 
    Aaberge, Rolf (Working paper / Arbeidsnotat, 2002)
    in terms of a decreasing/increasing hazard function can solely be used as a basis for revealing whether negative/positive duration dependence is present or not. However, when concern is directed to comparison and measurement ...
  • Long-run evolution of income inequality in the Nordic countries 
    Aaberge, Rolf; Bengtsson, Erik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)
    This paper surveys Nordic historic studies on the distribution of income to highlight similarities and differences between Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden in the evolution of income concentration and income inequality ...
  • Political uncertainty and household savings 
    Aaberge, Rolf; Liu, Kai; Zhu, Yu (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
    I denne studien analyserer vi effektene på konsum og sparing av den politiske uroen i Kina i mai 1989; også kalt Tian’anmen begivenhetene. This is a discussion paper, which subsequently has been published in the Journal ...
  • Ranking intersecting distribution functions 
    Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
    Second-degree dominance has become a widely accepted criterion for ordering distribution functions according to social welfare. However, it provides only a partial ordering, and it may fail to rank distributions that ...
  • The dual approach for measuring multidimensional deprivation: Theory and empirical evidence 
    Aaberge, Rolf; Peluso, Eugenio; Sigstad, Henrik (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking and quantifying the extent of deprivation in multidimensional distributions of dichotomous deprivation variables. To this end, we introduce a family of measures of ...
  • Tony Atkinson and his Legacy 
    Aaberge, Rolf; Bourguignon, François; Brandolini, Andrea; Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Gornick, Janet C.; Hills, John; Jäntti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Marlier, Eric; Micklewright, John; Nolan, Brian; Piketty, Thomas; Radermacher, Walter J.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Stern, Nicholas H.; Stiglitz, Joseph; Sutherland, Holly (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
    Tony Atkinson is universally celebrated for his outstanding contributions to the measurement and analysis of inequality, but he never saw the study of inequality as a separate branch of economics. He was an economist in ...