Testing the Significance of Income Distribution Changes over the 1980s Business Cycle: A Cross-National Comparison

Testing the significance of income distr

Testing the significance of income distribution changes over the 1980s business cycle: a cross-national comparison

✍ Richard V. Burkhauser; Amy Crews Cutts; Mary C. Daly; Stephen P. Jenkins 📂 Article 📅 1999 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 234 KB

Using kernel density estimation we describe the distribution of household size-adjusted real income and how it changed over the business cycle of the 1980s in the United States and the United Kingdom. We con®rm previous studies that show income inequality increased in the two countries and the middl