[工程科技]POST CONFERENCE DRAFT American Income Inequality in a Cross-National Perspective Why Are We.pdf

Working Paper No. 157 AMERICAN INCOME INEQUALITY IN A CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE: WHY ARE WE SO DIFFERENT? Timothy M. Smeeding Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs Syracuse University Syracuse, New York 13244-1020 April 1997 LIS is a division of the Center for the Study of Population, Poverty and Public Policy (CEPS)/International Networks for Studies in Technology, Environment, Alternatives, Development (INSTEAD) in Walferdange, Luxembourg. POST CONFERENCE DRAFT American Income Inequality in a Cross-National Perspective: Why Are We So Different?* Timothy M. Smeeding Professor of Economics and Public Administration Director, Center for Policy Research The Maxwell School Syracuse University Project Director, Luxembourg Income Study Prepared for the National Policy Association’s Conference on “The Growth of Income Disparity” April 10, 1997 May 1997 * The author would like to thank the National Policy Association for its support and his co- authors Anthony Atkinson, Peter Gottschalk, Lee Rainwater, and Peter Stoyko without blame, for their help in assembling the evidence on cross-national patterns of inequality which underlie this paper. An earlier draft of this paper is available as Luxembourg Income Study Working Paper #157. Ka