The article considers what the authors take to be the real sources of income inequality in the U.S. including a greatly increased incidence of S corporations, globalization that has reduced the return on labor while increasing that of capital, and greater economic freedom around the world.Gramm...
Decomposing income inequality into factor income components: Evidence from selected G20 countries Income inequality has been rising in a number of countries in recent years and has been a growing concern. The total income of high-income households has increased faster than that of low-income househo...
Understanding the causes of income inequality in complex economic systems We suggest in this paper that inequality in economic systems can be profitably analysed using complex systems analysis. We explain how we can capture, analytically, complexity in an economic system by applying graph theory in ...
We also find that the industrial mix of a region plays an important role in shaping its distribution of income: regions with high concentrations of manufacturing activities typically have lower levels of inequality, whereas regions with high concentrations of tertiary services, arts, and entertainment,...
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Saving someone drowning hand-in-hand with a few others can be even more dangerous. The “human chain” you form can easily break if one of you experiences any kind of tiredness, and one person can drag down the whole team. ● Know who can save a life. ...
The article presents the author's opinions on health inequality in the United Kingdom which exists between the poor and others. Arguments are presented which suggest that while the UK has a clearly stated commitment to stop health inequalities it also allows disparities in wealth to widen which ...
analysis of the important issues of inequality, poverty, gender and special demographic groups household earnings, the role of health in earnings capacity and welfare participation, as well as the impact of inheritance, property incomes, taxes and transfers on patterns of aggregate income and wealth....
Inequality and the redistribution of income is a common example of an equity-efficiency tradeoff. Understanding the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff An equity-efficiency tradeoff results when maximizing the efficiency of an economy leads to a reduction in its equity—as in how equitably its wealth or income...
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