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The Changing Distribution of Earnings in OECD Countries Atkinson, A.B. Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford Print publication date: 2008 (this edition) Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2008 Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-953243-8 doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532438.003.0029
N Norway A. B. Atkinson This chapter presents tables of data on Norway and an account of its increased earnings distribution. It shows that the picture of earnings dispersion in Norway remains unclear. However, there is nothing in the data assembled here to disprove the hypothesis that there have been only limited changes since 1970. Keywords: country data, data sources, earnings distribution, earnings dispersion, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532438.003.0029

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Preface

Part I The Lecture

Why Read This Lecture?

1 Introduction: What This Lecture Is About

2 The Race between Technology and Education: The Textbook Model

3 Taking Data Seriously: Where the Data Come From and How We Should Use Them

4 The Changes in Dispersion since 1980

5 Recent History in Full: Was there a Lull before the Storm?

6 A Longer-Run View of the Earnings Distribution: The Great Compression and the Golden Age

7 What We Are Seeking to Explain

8 A Behavioural Model of Change in Differentials: The ‘Fanning Out’ at the Top of the Earnings Distribution

9 Superstars and Pyramids: Two Complementary Explanations for Changes in Top Earnings

Part II Details of the Models

Note 1 The Dynamics of Supply and Demand

Note 2 A Behavioural Model of Changing Pay Norms

Note 3 Superstars and Pyramids

Part III New Empirical Evidence for 20 OECD Countries

Introduction to Part III

D Czech Republic

S United Kingdom

T United States

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