Demography or Income Packaging: What Explains the Income Distribution of The Netherlands?

Lee Rainwater () and Timothy Smeeding ()

No 169, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: Prepared for the Fethschnft for Hans-Jurgen Krupp, this report examines the role of demographic, economic, and policy-related institutional factors which we term ""income packaging"" in accounting for income distribution differences between The Netherlands and seven other OECD countries. These countries have been chosen to represent a range in income inequality and in the nature of their income packaging characteristics. The question addressed is how much of the difference across these nations is due to demography (that is, the age and household structures of The Netherlands), as compared to other factors which determine income packaging?

Pages: 33 pages
Date: 1997-11
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Published in In Galler, Wagner, eds. Empirische Forschung und wirtschaftspolitische Beratung (Empirical Research and Economic Policy Discussion): Commemorative Volume for Hans-Jürgen Krupp, Economic Research 38, (1998): 99-118

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