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Rising income inequality and living standards in OECD countries : how does the middle fare?

Thewissen, Stefan; Kenworthy, Lane; Nolan, Brian; Roser, Max - 2015

This paper uses data from the key comparative sources available for the rich countries to examine how both real median incomes and income inequality have evolved from around 1980 through the Great Recession. There are striking differences across OECD countries in average real median income...

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GDP per capita versus median household income : what gives rise to divergence over time?

Nolan, Brian; Roser, Max; Thewissen, Stefan - 2016

Divergence between the evolution of GDP per capita and the income of a ‘typical’ household as measured in household surveys is giving rise to a range of serious concerns, especially in the USA. This paper investigates the extent of that divergence and the factors that contribute to it across...

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Ireland's income distribution in comparative perspective

Nolan, Brian (contributor); Smeeding, Timothy M. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Demographic behaviour and earnings inequality across OECD countries

Azzollini, Leo; Breen, Richard; Nolan, Brian - 2023

households headed by a single adult, may contribute to rising earnings inequality. Here we instead ask how demographic … differences between countries may underpin differences in household earnings inequality between them, concentrating on economic … account for just above 40% of the variation between countries in inequality in household labour earnings, with the proportion …

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Changing household structures, household employment, and poverty trends in rich countries

Azollini, Leo; Breen, Richard; Nolan, Brian - 2023

Changes in household structures and employment patterns alter the balance between households with an above- versus a below-average poverty risk while also affecting relative income poverty thresholds. Examining eleven countries for which suitable microdata is available from the Luxembourg Income...

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