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....

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...

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...

Conventional wisdom has it that U. S. society is both richer and more unequal than Canadian society, and that both have become more unequal in recent decades. It is true that earnings inequality increased in both countries from 1974 to 1985. However, in the 1985 to 1995 period, while generally...