Economic modelling suggests that a basic income grant for all individuals aged between 18 and 59 could significantly reduce ...

The Gini coefficient monitors the distribution of ... from avoiding the tax by moving their money abroad. On the latter point, substantial wealth taxes were levied in Japan, France and West ...

Reducing unemployment is found to be important for reducing inequality – estimates suggest that a 10 percentage point reduction in unemployment lowers the Gini coefficient by 3 percent. Achieving a ...

They point out that Schussler misuses and misinterprets his ... More precisely, the effects of increased earnings on inequality (measured, for example, using a Gini coefficient) depend on where the ...

Last week’s news that B.J. Armstrong had become the assistant general manager of the NBA’s Sacramento Kings put a question in my head. Who is Iowa’s best point guard since Armstrong’s Iowa ...

The paper argues that these results point towards financial variables as a partial way of rectifying the generally poor explanatory power of both cross-country and time series models of income ...

For more than a year, his party had a 20-point lead in opinion polls over then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party and momentum toward a landslide victory.

Estimated poverty rate for 2024 is 37%, a slight increase from a poverty rate of 34% in 2023*. Income inequality is rising; the Gini coefficient increased to more than 0.4 in 2023 and 2024 from 0.25 ...