Long Run Trends in Economic Inequality in Five Countries - a Birth Cohort View

Lars Osberg ()

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Abstract: This paper examines the level and distribution of equivalent after tax, after transfer money income in Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany and Sweden using micro-data from the Luxenbourg Income Study from 1969/70 to 1994/95. It concentrates on inequality within and between birth cohorts.

Keywords: SOCIAL WELFARE; INEQUALITY (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 I30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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