Low household saving- cause?
The distribution of income has widened
‘The increase in inequality in New Zealand from 1982 to 1996 appears to have been as large as or larger than that in other counties for which similar data is available’.
For both personal and equivalent household data
- ‘While the top decile's share of income has increased, the share of total gross income gained by those in the middle deciles has dropped’
- ‘In market incomes, the top 10% of earner earned as much as the bottom 70%’
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New Zealand Now Incomes 1999