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SOME COMPARISONS OF THE CANADIAN‐U.S. INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS
Author(s) -
Podoluk Jenny R.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1970.tb00758.x
Subject(s) - earnings , economics , distribution (mathematics) , income distribution , demographic economics , inequality , population , total personal income , economic inequality , labour economics , family income , gross income , economic growth , demography , public economics , sociology , finance , state income tax , mathematical analysis , mathematics , tax reform
This paper compares the income distribution of Canada and the United States as well as other characteristics of the population such as the labour force and income trends in the two countries in the post‐war years. In both countries family income distributions show similar degrees of inequality and similar movements in real incomes through time. However, an examination of Canadian data suggests that differences do exist in underlying patterns. For example, there are greater earnings differentials between skilled and unskilled workers in Canada than in the United States while on the other hand in the United States greater differences exist between family incomes with heads in different age groups than is the case in Canada.