经济增长能够自动解决收入不平等问题吗?

Can Economic Growth Automatically Solve the Problem of Income Inequality?

20世纪初至今,虽然政治体制、经济水平和社会制度截然不同,但主要发达经济体和新兴市场国家的收入不平等情况都经历了“下降—攀升”的变化过程。20世纪80年代以来,美国经济增长显著快于欧盟,但其收入不平等恶化程度却较欧盟更为严重。两个经济体收入不平等与经济增长的背离表明,仅靠经济增长难以自动解决发达国家的收入不平等问题,不同的政策选择和制度变迁可能是收入不平等的驱动因素之一。

From the beginning of the 20th century to the present,although the political system,economic level,and social system are completely different,the income inequality of the major developed economies and emerging market countries has undergone a"decline-rise"process of change.Since the 1980s,the US economy has grown significantly faster than the EU,but its income inequality has deteriorated more severely than the latter.The divergence between income inequality and economic growth in the two economies shows that economic growth alone cannot automatically solve the problem of income inequality in developed countries.Different policy choices and institutional changes may be one of the driving factors for income inequality.