Income Inequality and Income Mobility in the Scandinavian Countries Compared to the United States
Income Inequality and Income Mobility in the Scandinavian Countries Compared to the United States
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斯堪的纳维亚国家与美国的收入不平等和收入流动性
DOI：
10.1111/1475-4991.00063
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发表时间：
2002
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通讯作者：
Tom Wennemo
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R. Aaberge;Anders Bjorklund;Markus Jantti;Mårten Palme;Peder J. Pedersen;N. Smith;Tom Wennemo
本文比较了1980-90年代斯堪的纳维亚国家和美国的收入不平等和收入流动性。结果表明，美国的不平等程度比斯堪的纳维亚国家更严重，而且当收入的会计期限从1年延长到11年时，各国的不平等排名仍保持不变。从某种意义上说，流动性的模式非常相似，即延长收入会计期间对不平等的比例减少大致相同。但我们确实发现证据表明，在美国，第一阶段相对收入和收入的差异存在更大的差异。在这四个国家，相对收入的变化都与劳动力市场和婚姻状况的变化有关，但这种变化的幅度在美国最大。
This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during 1980–90. The results suggest that inequality is greater in the United States than in the Scandinavian countries and that this inequality ranking of countries remains unchanged when the accounting period of income is extended from one to eleven years. The pattern of mobility turns out to be remarkably similar, in the sense that the proportionate reduction in inequality from extending the accounting period of income is much the same. But we do find evidence of greater dispersion of first differences of relative earnings and income in the United States. Relative income changes are associated with changes in labor market and marital status in all four countries, but the magnitude of such changes are largest in the United States.