How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed over the 1990s Business Cycle : A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan

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How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed over the 1990s Business Cycle : A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan

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Richard V. Burkhauser
Takashi Oshio
Ludmila Rovba

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Ludmila Rovba

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Using kernel density estimation we find that over their 1990s business cycles the entire distribution of after-tax (disposable) income moved to the right in the United States and Great Britain while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality and a decline in the middle mass of their distributions that spread mostly to the right, much like the United States over its 1980s business cycle. Inequality fell within the older population in all four countries and within the younger population in the United States and Great Britain, but rose substantially in Germany and Japan.

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Paper provided by DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) in its series SOEPpapers with number 35.

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- Richard Burkhauser & Takashi Oshio & Ludmila Rovba, 2006. "How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed Over the 1990s Business Cycle: A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan," Working Papers wp145, University of Michigan, Michigan Retirement Research Center. [Downloadable!]

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Richard V. Burkhauser & Ludmila Rovba, 2006. "Income Inequality in the 1990s : Comparing the United States, Great Britain and Germany," Discussion Papers of DIW Berlin 576, DIW Berlin, German Institute for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]
Burkhauser, Richard V. & Butler, J. S. & Feng, Shuaizhang & Houtenville, Andrew J., 2004. "Long term trends in earnings inequality: what the CPS can tell us," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 82(2), pages 295-299, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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