The overall level of income inequality in a country is an important dimension of welfare, with significant implications for a country's ability to reduce poverty. Although inequality is used in a wide ...

Check out more from the series here. Listener Tom Scholten from Madison, Wisconsin, asks: Income inequality is a term often mentioned in recent years, but by what measure or criteria is it measured?

Mark Stelzner: The historic income inequality we associate with Gilded Age up to the ... CC: So are we looking at the wrong metrics? MS: I think the metrics we use don’t even come close to giving us ...

Inequality is a notoriously challenging concept on which to make definitive statements. Inequality of what? Of household income or of GDP per capita? Or even of mortality rates themselves, across ...

One of Australia’s most valuable social surveys also found a record number of households have been affected by natural disasters.

Douglas County does better than the national average on unemployment, child poverty, flu vaccinations and more, but it has ...

The Artstor website will be retired on Aug 1st. The Journal of Economic Perspectives Vol. 34, No. 4, Fall 2020 Growing Income Inequality in the United ... Growing Income Inequality in the United ...

It ranks cities on 13 individual metrics, from job growth and wage growth to income inequality and broadband access. This year's ranking looked at 200 large cities and 203 small cities ...

The mass media repeatedly reported that Japan's income inequality was widening partly because of an increase in irregular workers. Such reports seem to have been adopted as fact by most Japanese ...

Japan’s income inequality hit its second-worst level on record, according to a labor ministry survey conducted in 2021. The Gini coefficient--an index that measures income inequality on a ...

Inequality indicators are different ways of measuring aggregate differences in income distribution. The Gini Index as well as the 90/10 are some of the most commonly used. This dashboard shows how the ...