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Long-run changes in personal income distribution

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This paper presents data on personal income distribution in the Netherlands for the period 1914–1972, in terms of decile income shares and measures of dispersion. Estimates are given of the trend and of cyclical sensitivity of income inequality, both trend and cycle being far more important before 1940 than after. Attempts to explain changes in inequality by regression analysis, with a necessarily limited set of variables, lead to many rejections.

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  1. Department of Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Jan G. Veenbergen

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  1. Joop Hartog
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Hartog, J., Veenbergen, J.G. Dutch treat. De Economist 126, 521–549 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01849813

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