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Une nouvelle perspective des tendances de l'inegalite des revenus au Canada et aux Etats-Unis

Murphy, Brian; Wolfson, Michael - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

Il est generalement admis que la societe americaine est a la fois plus riche et plus inegale que la societe canadienne, et que l'inegalite entre l'une et l'autre s'est accentuee ces dernieres decennies. Il est vrai que l'inegalite des gains a augmente dans les deux pays de 1974 a 1985....

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Mesures d'inegalite divergentes : theorie et resultats empiriques (edition revisee)

Wolfson, Michael - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1997

Certains indicateurs statistiques largement utilises concernant l'inegalite ou la "disparition de la classe moyenne" sont peut-etre trompeurs. Parmi les divergences entre les conclusions tirees et les donnees citees, on retrouve l'absence de distinctions entre les concepts d'inegalite et de...

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Nouvelle analyse des tendances recentes de l'inegalite du revenu apres impot au Canada au moyen des donnees de recensement

Green, David A.; Milligan, Kevin; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

Nous presentons de nouveaux resultats concernant les niveaux et les tendances de l'inegalite du revenu apres impot au Canada au cours de la periode allant de 1980 a 2000. Nous soutenons que les sources de donnees existantes ne revelent pas necessairement les variations dans les queues de la...

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Revisiting Recent Trends in Canadian After-Tax Income Inequality Using Census Data

Green, David A.; Milligan, Kevin; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

We present new evidence on levels and trends in after-tax income inequality in Canada between 1980 and 2000. We argue … that existing data sources may miss changes in the tails of the income distribution, and that much of the changes in the … income distribution have been in the tails. Our data are constructed from Census files, which are augmented with predicted …

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Divergent Inequalities - Theory and Empirical Results (Revised Edition)

Wolfson, Michael - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1997

Widely used summary measures of inequality or the "disappearing middle class" are potentially misleading. Divergences between evidence cited and conclusions drawn include failing to distinguish the concepts of inequality and polarization, and using scalar oinequalityo measures which are not...

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New Views on Inequality Trends in Canada and the United States

Murphy, Brian; Wolfson, Michael - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

median- fell over the past decade in both nations. Adding in the role of government income taxes and transfers, families …

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Rising Income Inequality in the 1990s: An Exploration of Three Data Sources

Picot, Garnett; Green, David A.; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

This study investigates trends in family income inequality in the 1980s and 1990s, with particular attention paid to …

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Croissance de l'inegalite du revenu pendant les annees 1990 : exploration de trois sources de donnees

Picot, Garnett; Green, David A.; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

Dans cette etude, on examine les tendances de l'inegalite du revenu familial durant les annees 1980 et 1990, en accordant une attention particuliere a la periode de reprise economique des annees 1990.

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