Burkhauser, Richard V.; Rovba, Ludmila; Oshio, Takashi - In: Journal of Income Distribution 17 (2008) 1, pp. 87-109
entire distribution of after-tax (disposable) income moved to the right while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and … Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality, and a decline in the middle mass of their distributions, that spread … mostly to the right, much like in the United States over its 1980s business cycle. Inequality fell within the older …