Lorenz and Stochastic Dominance Comparisons of European Income Distribution

Ryoicki Sakano, John Formby () and John Bishop ()

No 124, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: The goal of this paper is threefold. First, to make stochastic dominance comparisons as well as Lorenz orderings for five European countries. Second, to analyze the changes in distributions across time, and third, to explore whether there is evidence of convergence or divergence in European income distributions. They find that Lorenz curves became significantly more unequal in Sweden and the U.K., did not change significantly in Germany and France, and became more equal in the Netherlands. Their main conclusion is that as of the mid 1980s, European economic integration had not resulted in a convergence of standards of living as measured by rank and generalized Lorenz dominance.

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Date: 1995-01
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Published in Research in Income Inequality, JAI Press, eds. Camillo Dagum and Achille Lemme

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