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Unequal? Our analysis suggests Australia is a more equal society than has been thought

  • Written by Roger Wilkins, Professorial Fellow and Deputy Director (Research), HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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It has long been known that incomes in Australia are more evenly distributed than in the United States.

But Australia has been thought to be a less equal society than many European ones, sitting somewhere in the middle between the United States and countries such as France.

We can measure income equality using the so-called Gini...

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