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| Author: | Burkhauser, R. Poupore, J. |
| Title: | A cross-national comparison of permanent inequality in the United States and Germany |
| Journal: | Review of Economics and Statistics
1997 : FEB, VOL. 79:1, p. 10-17 |
| Index terms: | ECONOMICS STATISTICS GERMANY |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | Traditional cross-sectional measures find greater inequality in the United States than in industrialized Western European countries, but are unable to distinguish transitory from permanent inequality. With longitudinal data, the authors measure cross-sectional inequality during the 1980s using the Shorrocks measure of income stability to find the degree to which single-period measures exaggerate permanent inequality. Both single-period inequality and the share of that inequality which persists over time are greater in the U.S. than in Germany. |
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