The Changing Distribution Of Earnings In OECD Countries
The Changing Distribution Of Earnings In OECD Countries
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经合组织国家收入分配的变化
DOI：
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199532438.001.0001
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发表时间：
2008
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通讯作者：
A. Atkinson
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作者：
A. Atkinson
这本书是关于人们赚多少钱，以及为什么收入的分配一直在随着时间的推移而变化。自1980年以来，美国顶层和底层之间的差距显着扩大。为什么会出现这种情况？是因为新技术吗？全球化的作用是什么？有历史先例吗？这本书从技术和教育之间的“竞赛”开始，并表明持续的技术进步并不一定意味着离散度的持续上升。然后审查了20个经合组织国家在二十世纪的经验，材料以20个国家案例研究的形式提出。这本书在收集有关个人收入分布的数据方面有了新的突破，这些数据涵盖了20世纪的大部分时间，并利用了各种未被充分利用的来源。这些发现推翻了一些广泛持有的信念。受最近变化影响最大的并不是低收入者的收入;收入的扩大主要是由于高层发生的事情。近期收益离散度的上升并非史无前例，但应被视为收益差异连续压缩和扩大的长期历史的一部分。
This book is about how much people earn and why the distribution of earnings has been changing over time. The gap between the top and bottom in the United States has widened significantly since 1980. Why has this happened? Is it due to new technologies? What is the role of globalisation? Are there historical precedents? The book begins with the "race" between technology and education, and shows that continuing technical progress does not necessarily imply a continuing rise in dispersion. It then examines the experience of 20 OECD countries over the twentieth century, material presented in the form of 20 country case studies. The book breaks new ground in assembling data on the distribution of individual earnings covering much of the twentieth century and drawing on a variety of under-exploited sources. The findings overturn a number of widely-held beliefs. It is not the earnings of the low paid that have been most affected by the recent changes; widening is largely due to what is happening at the top. The recent rise in earnings dispersion is not unprecedented, but should be seen as part of a longer-run history of successive compression and expansion of earnings differences.