欧洲人对于收入平等问题所持观点更悲观

2014-08-20 16:04:09来源：可可英语

　　Europeans are more pessimistic about how equaltheir societies actually are, while in the US people arewedded to the American dream and believe society isfairer than it really is.

　　欧洲人对本国社会的实际平等程度更加悲观，而美国人则紧抱美国梦、他们眼中的美国社会比实际上更加平等。

　　German research sheds new light on the politicalchallenges involved in tax, income distribution andsocial fairness and raises questions in the equalitydebate revived by French economist Thomas Piketty.

　　德国的一项研究为涉及税收、收入分配和社会公平的各项政治挑战带来了新的启发，在由法国经济学家托马斯•皮凯蒂(Thomas Piketty)重新点燃的不公平辩论中提出了问题。

　　The study, to be presented at Germany’s Lindau conference this week, “suggests that in thepolitical debate on income distribution, it is often not the facts that count but [perceptions]”,said Professor Michael Hüther, director of the Cologne-based IW economic institute.

　　德国科隆经济研究所(IW)负责人迈克尔•许特(Michael Hüther)教授表示，本周将在德国林道(Lindau)会议上发表的这份研究报告“似乎表明在这场有关收入分配的政治辩论中，重要的往往不是事实，而是(印象)”。

　　Author Judith Niehues compared actual and perceived income levels in the US and 23 EUcountries, using economic data and polling of about 1,000 people in each country.

　　研究报告的作者朱迪丝•尼许斯(Judith Niehues)利用经济数据，并在每个国家对大约1000人进行调查，比较了美国和23个欧盟(EU)国家的实际收入水平和本国人认为的收入水平。

　　She found that Europeans underestimate the proportion of middle-income earners andoverestimate the proportion of the poor, commonly defined as people on incomes of 60 percent or less of the median.

　　她发现，欧洲人低估了中等收入者的比例，高估了穷人的比例，后者通常定义为收入达到或低于中值收入60%的人士。

　　Only the US has a more unequal income distribution than its citizens imagined, with manymore poor people.

　　只有美国的实际收入分配情况比其国民想象的更为不平等，穷人的数量也大大超过他们认为的。

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