Income inequality on the basis of gender has lessened over time, but women are still often underpaid in comparison to men, and there are more levels of inequality within the wage gap when it comes to race and type of occupation. Closing it remains unfinished business in making the United Sta...
Income Distribution Statistics in Latin America and their Reliability”, Review of Income and Wealth - Altimir - 1987 () Citation Context ...me overall adjustment factor, as in some poverty studies, would not influence aggregate inequality measures. However, using distinct adjustment factor by ...
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...
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 2000 whose Gini coefficient was >0.25, only Nigeria and the Philippines had coefficients above ...
The ample array of summary measures of health inequality tended to generate convergent results. Conclusions: Significant inequalities in violent death among young people seems to be in place across countries of the Americas, and they seem to be socially determined by both income and gender. These ...
To study the effect of individual income inequality on perceived subjective environmental pollution, we first measure individual income inequality; then, we combine individual information from CGSS with provincial socioeconomic and objective environment data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China (...
If the mean were used to report income levels, it would give an inaccurate estimate because it's affected by the income inequality in the United States. For this reason, most reports use the median income but call it the average. Tip When looking at average income, pay attention to what...
According to the Federal Reserve, in 1990 the richest 1 percent of America owned 40 percent of its wealth -- the greatest level of inequality among all rich nations, and the worst in U.S. history since the Roaring Twenties. Furthermore, the richest 20 percent owned 80 percent of America ...
58 Responses to “Income and wealth inequality data: Nonsense on stilts” wcw 29. September 2010 at 05:49 If you are an observant person, economic inequality in America is exactly what you’d think — but you have to get out. Lots of people don’t. If you take public transit in an...
America and the Caribbean, and the Sub- Saharan Africa region,7 though Asia's level of income inequality is still much higher when compared with that of 34 OECD countries, most of which had a Gini in the range of 25–35.8 The trend in income inequality by income group: A case of 20 ...