International Comparisons of Income Inequality
Tests for Lorenz Dominance Across Nine Countries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9725517 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John A Bishop, John P Formby, William J Smith (0009-0003-6230-4421) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 232 |
| Pages | 461 |
| Publication date | 1991-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2554692 |
| OpenAlex | W1977877969 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
This paper examines income inequality across nine countries using the Luxembourg Income Study data set. New statistical tests and comparability of data provide an exceptionally clear picture of relative income inequality. Only 4 comparisons out of a possible 108 cannot be ranked. In most cases, differences in the definition of the recipient unit make little difference in the rankings. Irrespective of recipient units, Sweden, Norway, and Germany come out at the top of the ordinal Lorenz ranking, with Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the middle, and the United States and Switzerland at the bottom. Copyright 1991 by The London School of Economics and Political Science
Comparability · Demographic economics · Dominance (genetics) · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Gini coefficient · Income distribution · Income shares · Inequality · International comparisons · Lorenz curve · Ranking (information retrieval) · Economic Theory and Institutions · Economic Theory and Policy · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics
Simultaneous Statistical Inference
On the measurement of inequality
Distribution-Free Statistical Inference with Lorenz Curves and Income Shares
Equivalence Scales, Well‐being, Inequality, and Poverty
Asymptotically Distribution-Free Statistical Inference for Generalized Lorenz Curves
Lorenz Dominance and Welfare
Ranking Income Distributions
On Economic Inequality
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2021 (25) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |