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Unemployment Shocks and Income Distribution
Nina Smith
Markus Jantti
Rolf Aaberge
Tom Wennemo
Anders Bjorklund
Peder J. Pedersen
其他書名
How Did the Nordic Countries Fare During Their Crises?
出版
SSRN
, 2001
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HljfzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
We study the inequality of disposable income in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden during the late 1980s and early 1990s when unemployment rose dramatically in all four countries. A standard measure of inequality - the Gini coefficient - was surprisingly stable in all countries during this period. By decomposing the Gini into income components, we test hypotheses about the reasons for this stable income distribution. Our most straightforward hypothesis, that rising unemployment benefits counteracted the impact of more unequally distributed earnings, receives only limited support. More complex mechanisms seem to have been at work.