Long Run Trends in Economic Inequality in Five Countries - A Birth Cohort View

This paper examines the level and distribution of equivalent after tax, after transfer money income in Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany and Sweden using micro-data from the Luxenbourg Income Study from 1969/70 to 1994/95. It concentrates on inequality within and between birth cohorts.

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