In Search for a Smoking Gun: What Makes Income Inequality Vary Over Time in Different Countries?

Mats Johansson () and Bjorn Gustafsson ()

No 172, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: Forces affecting the development of the distribution of income in OECD-countries are investigated by analyzing an unbalanced panel with information covering 16 countries from 1966 to 1994. Income inequality is measured with the Gini-coefficient of equivalent disposable income. The results suggest that many factors affect the development of inequality. Factors are strictly economic or outside a strictly defined market-sphere as well as being demographic. However, a relation between the unemployment rate and inequality could not be found.

Pages: 58 pages
Date: 1997-11
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Published in American Sociological Review 64, (Aug 1999): 585-605; Ekonomisk Debatt 8, (1999)

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