Sources of Equality and Inequality: Wages, Jobs, Households, and Redistribution

Lane Kenworthy ()

No 471, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: What are the principal sources of posttax-posttransfer inequality in affluent countries? To what extent do inequality of individual earnings, inequality of market household incomes, redistribution, and other factors influence the posttax-posttransfer income distribution? And what do the answers to these questions tell us about the best route to low posttax-posttransfer inequality? I explore these issues in a comparative fashion, focusing on the experiences of twelve countries - Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States - since the 1970s.

Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2008-01
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Published in In Jobs with Equality, 30-56. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

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