INCOME INEQUALITY IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND: INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS AND RECENT TRENDS
作者:
Peter Saunders,
Helen Stott,
Garry Hobbes,
期刊:
Review of Income and Wealth
(WILEY Available online 1991)
卷期:
Volume 37,
issue 1
页码: 63-79
ISSN:0034-6586
年代: 1991
DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4991.1991.tb00338.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
In this paper we present results on the distribution of income in Australia and New Zealand that can be compared with those for a range of other advanced countries. The framework of analysis, concepts and definitions used have been developed as part of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). Using data for the early 1980s, the results indicate that the income distributions in Australia and New Zealand are not, as previous research has suggested, more equal than those in other countries. Neither country has an equivalent net family income inequality ranking in the top half of the eight countries studied. Further analysis indicates increasing inequality in Australia in the first half of the 1980s and, on the basis of some indicators, in New Zealand also. The paper does not investigate the causes of these increases in inequality, although the results indicate that the rise in property income has been a factor behind them.
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