Income inequality on the basis of gender has lessened over time, but significant progress has stalled over the past two decades. 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. Cl...
economic inequality statisticsAmerican wealth inequalitymeasures of income inequality in the USAThis paper confirms recent studies which find little or no sustained increase in the inequality of disposable income for the U.S. population as a whole over the past 20 years, even though estimates of ...
The research suggests that economic policies to address the rising income inequality in the United States might serve to also address some of our nation's most troubling health statistics.doi:10.1016/j.soscij.2018.05.001Matthew PravinBrodersen Donka Mirtcheva...
Measuring income inequality has been a challenging task, as each of the indices used for the purpose attempt to condense the complexities of populations into just one number. Among the many indices, we have the Atkinson, Bonferroni, Gini, Palma, Pietra, Theil, and Zenga indices, to name just...
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. ...
samples in constant dollars. While there has been some movement of the entire income distribution to the right over the three periods, there has also been a movement to greater density in the right tail of the distribution, reflecting an increase in income inequality over this time period.[15...
LONDON, May 30 (Xinhua) -- The ratio of average household income of the richest one-fifth of people before taxes and benefits compared with the poorest one-fifth in Britain was 11.2 in the financial year ending 2018, continuing the downward trend from 15.5 in 2008, statistics revealed on Th...
income inequality, unemployment rates, and immigration in 38 European countries, this study examines the link between crime and immigration in the context of socioeconomic variables. The main goal is to identify and analyze possible relationships between immigration, unemployment, and crime in Europe. ...
Overall relationship between income inequality and SWB Figure2presents the forest plot of the main analysis, namely the overall relationship between income inequality and SWB across the 24 studies that provided the relevant statistics. The overall pooled effect size was practically zero and non-signific...
Table A1. Summary statistics test I.1 Empty CellRangeTransitionControl∆Balanced control Empty Cell Empty CellMean / shareStd. dev. (means)Mean / shareStd. dev. (means)Control-TransMean / shareStd. dev. (means) Number of observations Empty Cell41112,103 Empty Cell12,103 Subjective well-be...