November 10, 2011

During periods of generalized economic growth, when incomes are rising across all asset classes, the distribution of income will deteriorate. It would be a mistake to use the distribution of income as evidence that the poor or lower income people are worse off. In fact, taken at face value, our analysis suggests that generalized attempts to improve the distribution of income, if successful, will end up reducing the real income of the different groups.

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