Cross-national trends in earnings inequality and instability

被引:14
作者
Daly, Mary C. [1 ]
Valletta, Robert G. [1 ]
机构
[1] Fed Reserve Bank San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94105 USA
关键词
earnings inequality; comparative;
D O I
10.1016/j.econlet.2007.04.019
中图分类号
F [经济];
学科分类号
02 ;
摘要
We compare trends in earnings inequality in the United States, Germany, and Great Britain. Estimation of a heterogeneous growth model of permanent and transitory earnings variation reveals substantial convergence in the permanent component of inequality in these countries during the 1990s. (C) 2008 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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