INTERNATIONAL COMPARISONS OF INCOME INEQUALITY - TESTS FOR LORENZ DOMINANCE ACROSS 9 COUNTRIES

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. In most cases, differences in the definition of the recipient unit make little difference in the rankings. Irrespective of recipient unit, Sweden, Norway and Germany come out at the top of the ordinal Lorenz ranking, with Australia, Canada and the UK in the middle and the US and Switzerland at the bottom. -from Authors