Empirical Evidence on Income Inequality in Industrialized Countries

Peter Gottschalk and Timothy Smeeding ()

No 154, LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg

Abstract: The first draft of Chapter 3 in The Handbook of Income Distribution, edited by Anthony B. Atkinson and Francois Bourgignon, this paper reviews the empirical evidence on the level and trend in family income inequality in industrialized countries, primarily the OECD countries.

Pages: 77 pages
Date: 1998-06
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (22)

Published in A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourgignon, eds., Handbook of Income Distribution, Elsevier-North Holland Publishers

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/154.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Chapter: Empirical evidence on income inequality in industrialized countries (2000)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:lis:liswps:154

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LIS Working papers from LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Piotr Paradowski ().