Income Inequalities in Japan and the UK: A Comparative Study of Two Island
Income Inequalities in Japan and the UK: A Comparative Study of Two Island
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日本和英国的收入不平等：两个岛屿的比较研究
DOI：
10.1017/s1474746413000043
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发表时间：
2014
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Hanaoka K.
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作者：
Ballas D;Dorling D;Nakaya T;Tunstall H;Hanaoka K.
这篇文章建立在理查德威尔金森和凯特皮克特最近的工作，题为精神水平表明，日本是世界上最和谐的富裕国家之一，而英国（英国）是最不平等的，因此不和谐。特别是，这篇文章重新审视了精神水平的证据，根据这一证据，日本是一个比任何其他工业化国家更公平的社会，但特别是与英国这样的国家形成鲜明对比。本文简要回顾了日本和英国可用于分析收入不平等的适当数据，并确定了最适合这一目的的最佳微观数据：日本全国家庭收入和支出调查微观数据和英国家庭资源调查和家庭低于平均收入调查微观数据。然后，对日本和英国的收入不平等指标进行了比较分析，并根据这些数据对两国过去20年的收入分配进行了讨论。调查结果表明，英国在收入分配方面比日本更加不平等。
This article builds on recent work entitled The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett suggesting that Japan is one of the most harmonious affluent countries in the world, whereas the United Kingdom (UK) is one of the most unequal and hence disharmonious. In particular, the article revisits The Spirit Level evidence according to which Japan is a more equitable society in terms of income than any other industrialised country, but especially contrasts with a country such as the UK. The article provides a brief review of appropriate data in both Japan and the UK that could be used for the analysis of income inequality and identifies the best available microdata that would be most suitable for this purpose: the Japanese National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure microdata and the UK Family Resources Survey and Household Below Average Income survey microdata. It then presents a comparative analysis of income inequality measures in Japan and the UK and a discussion of the income distribution in both countries based on these data sets over the past twenty years. The findings suggest that the UK is much more unequal than Japan in terms of income distribution.