Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Discussion Paper Series in Economics,
Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics
No 6/2010: Baby Booming Inequality? Demographic Change and Inequality in Norway, 1967{2004.
Ingvild Almås (), Tarjei Havnes and Magne Mogstad ()
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Ingvild Almås: Dept. of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Postal: NHH , Department of Economics, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway
Tarjei Havnes: University of Oslo
Magne Mogstad: Statistics Norway
Abstract: We demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are because of changes in the age structure. In particular, we explore the hypothesis that the substantial rise in earnings inequality since the early 1980s is driven by the large baby boom cohorts approaching the peak of the age{earnings pro le. Using administrative data on earnings for every Norwegian male over the period 1967{2004, we nd that the impact of age adjustments on the trend in inequality is highly sensitive to the method used:while the most widely used age-adjusted inequality measure indicates that the rise in inequality in the 1980s and 1990s is indeed driven partly by the baby boom, a new and improved age-adjusted measure indicates the opposite, namely that the rise in inequality was even larger than what the inequality measures unadjusted for age reveal.
Keywords: Inequality trend; age structure; age{earnings profile; Gini coefficient.
16 pages, May 7, 2011
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