Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192152 
Year of Publication: 
1996
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 168
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
This paper compares income inequality and income mobility in the Scandinavian countries and the United States during the 1980's. The results demonstrate that inequality is greater in the United States than in the Scandinavian countries and that the ranking of countries with respect to inequality remains unchanged when the accounting period of income is extended from one to 11 years. The pattern of mobility turns out to be remarkably similar despite major differences in labor market and social policies between the Scandinavian countries and the United States.
Subjects: 
Income inequality
income mobility.
JEL: 
D31
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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