Blar i forfatter "Haugen, Kristian Høsøien"
-
Income inequality, taxation, collective bargaining and trade. A longitudinal analysis of 19 OECD countries in the period 1981-2011
Haugen, Kristian Høsøien (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2015-11-16)This thesis studies determinants of income inequality using data from The World Top Incomes Database. The focus is on top tax rates, unions and trade openness. There is found that the erosion of unions and top tax rates are associated with the rise in top income shares in the sample of OECD countries. In addition, there is found that increase of trade openness is associated with the increase in top ...