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...
This paper started with identifying the most important determinants of income inequality through theoretical research. Among the various theories of causes of inequality, I hypothesized creating a level playing for children at the very start of their career as students as an important determinant. In ...
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 ...
This report provides background evidence to facilitate debate around the issue of inequality that has risen across the globe, including in most G20 countries. The middle class has been squeezed in many advanced and some emerging economies, with incomes stagnating or even declining. The share of ...
摘要 Poverty and income inequality are problems faced by many countries including China.Since the implementation of...展开更多 作者 Qin Ji JianPing Yang YuNan Chu HongJu Chen XinYu Guo 机构地区 State Key Laboratory of Cryospheric Science University of Chinese Academy of Sciences School of Traffic...
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,...
Income inequalityIncome distributionConfronting Income Inequality in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Causes, Consequences and Reform, by Toshiaki Tachibanaki, is reviewed. This book seeks to demolish the widespread image of postwar Japanese society as being highly egalitarian in terms of income and ...
stop scouring the snow-blanketed landscape. By focusing their attention on one object at a time, the men can cross the snow without becoming hopelessly snow-bpnd or lost. In this way the problem of crossing a sopd white terrain is overcome.A suitable title for this passage would be ___...
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...
Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and other essentials beyond income for a minimum standard of living.