Nissan, E., and G. Carter 1993. “Income Inequality Across Regions over Time.” Growth and Change 24: 303–319.Nissan, E. & Carter, G. Income inequality across regions over time. Growth and Change, 24(3...
This subject: wealth and income inequality are the biggest moral crisis, and I’d also say it’s the spiritual crisis in America today, all around the world. This gap between the rich and everybody else is reaching critical proportions. And I think one of the biggest crises is the young ...
The new income tax did little to put a cap on incomes, as was evidenced by the low topmarginal tax rateof 7% on income over $500,000, which in 2023 inflation-adjusted dollars equals approximately $14.7 million. Income inequality continued to rise until 1916, the same year in which the t...
It studies the relationship between income inequality and the development process, understood as the combination of economic, social and political changes produced over time based on the case of Chile between 1850 and 2009. It aims to describe and explain the tendencies in income distribution over ...
Income is the main wellbeing indicator used to measure inequality in China, as in other middle-income countries (e.g. Latin America and South Africa). A measure of consumption is more often preferred for the analysis of inequality among other developing countries, such as in Sub-Saharan Africa...
I keep running across blog posts showing the inequality of income and wealth in America. In a recent post I already discussed one reason why this data is fatally flawed, capital income is nothing like wage income—rather it is deferred consumption. Cou
Though the United States is by far the wealthiest country in the world, income and wealth inequality exist throughout the nation, which can be evidenced in the difference in median income and poverty throughout the states as well as by gender and race across the board. ...
The point is that if we had 100% lifetime equality in earnings, but wages that rose with age and experience, then that’s the sort of income inequality we might observe in America. The actual income inequality is greater, because inequality is not just due to life-cycle effects. 2. ...
Actually, inequality of wealth and consumption are exactly equal, when properly measured in present value terms. OK, to make this true I have to treat gifts from the rich is part of their consumption. But even in a society where the wealthy made no gifts, most people would be shocked to...
We calculated Gini coefficients as a measure of geographic inequality at the country level23. Our results suggest that geographic inequality in EBF prevalence decreased in most of the countries from 2000 to 2018 (77 of 94) on the basis of Gini coefficients; while there were 11 countries in 200...