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Commentators say that Trump's victory has stimulated a wide debate about long-festering issues of class, race, gender, and democracy. The obvious question, then, is why these 'long-festering issues' have received limited attention before now. This chapter focuses on why income inequality, in ...
For individuals, income is earned through wages or salaries, while for companies, it is earned through investments. Income is used in daily expenditures and contributes a lot to economic growth through taxation conducted by the local, state, and federal governments. These taxes received a...
Equality of opportunity is harder to measure, but for some things it can be guaranteed. The most obvious case is determining who belongs in an orchestra: simply audition prospective players behind a screen so that the only thing that can be judged is their playing. Their sex, race, or ethni...
Why might a consumer decrease consumption even if their disposable income has not changed? Discuss why labor demand curve slopes downward. Discuss six reasons why inflation is considered to be a problem. Explain why efficiency wages make sense in the long run. Explain how higher saving leads to...
Poverty is a tough enemy, but equality is a powerful weapon against it. When everyone has the same chances for a good education, job, and income, poverty starts to lose. It’s not an overnight change, but as more people can provide for themselves and their families, fewer people are le...
so did quality of life. Now GDP is still growing (albeit more slowly), but living standards are thought to be stuck. Part of the problem is widening inequality: median household income in America, adjusted for inflation, has barely budged for 25 years. But increasingly, too, the things tha...
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better is a landmark reference on the health of populations. This new book by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett catalogues the accumulated research on income inequality. The pr... Emily,Maddocks - 《Canadian Public Policy》 被引量: ...
不平等的痛苦[专著] : 收入差距如何导致社会问题 : The spirit level : why equality is better for everyone This book argues that income inequality is the causal source of social dysfunction. Developed market economies with higher levels of income inequality such as the USA, the UK and Portugal suf...
The income distribution theory inherent in the linear programming assignment problem is analyzed. In a context in which workers are assigned to machines... Michael,Sattinger - 《Industrial & Labor Relations Review》 被引量: 29发表: 2005年 Book Review: Wage Dispersion: Why are Similar Workers ...