Racial differences in the receipt of financial inheritances he& to explain why the average difference in wealth between black and white households is larger than the average difference in income. Using data from a panel of prime-aged males and from a representative survey of the U.S. ...
International Commodity Agreements have been demonstrated time and again to be ineffectual as a means of exploiting a private or government monopoly position; they have, however, been demonstrated to retard economic development and increase income inequality within the Less Developed Nations where they ...
1. The Economist just published an article about inheritance as a growing factor in the increase in the Gini Index (a measure of inequality). 2. I have long felt that inheritance taxes are an ideal solution to the problem. They work slowly, but are minimally invasive of property rights. ...
McGinnis told CBS News, "The study suggests that, although employment conditions and levels of income inequality did not independently explain differences among communities in life expectancy, factors such as healthier behaviors, higher graduation levels, higher expenditure levels for government assistance ...
The most corrosive effect on the public’s trust in the system was that after each crisis the rich became richer and inequality reached new heights. Eventually, decades after governments had stopped managing their economies in the interest of shared prosperity and social harmony as Keynes had ...
Stepping into the 21st century, China saw decreased social mobility and larger intergenerational wealth transfer. Now, inequality of opportunity is playing a bigger role in income distribution. It is increasingly difficult forindividuals from disadvantaged backgrounds to...
of small businesses. Farmers were now able to coordinate production, allocation, and pricing levels in semi-private agricultural markets. This would inevitably lead to income inequality as some farmers would have better luck than others. The new economic policy also led to small industrial and ...
Inter-industry wage differentials in China, measured in terms of average employment earnings by industry, are significant and have been increasing since 19... 史先诚 - 《China Economist》 被引量: 12发表: 2007年 AnAnalysisoftheIssueofInter-IndustryIncomeInequalityinChina After entering the new cent...
National data show that student from low –income families are 2.4 times likely to drop out of school that are children from middle-income families, and 10.5 times more likely than students from high-income families. Disabilities. Students with disabilities are also more likely to drop out. The...
economy. Notably Taiwan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, but also China, up in the upper-right corner. Ideally, Clarivate or some other bibliometric specialist would calculate theGini Coefficientof citation inequality, so we could compare the distributions for different countries and mathematical establishments...