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 ...

Table 5-17. Percentage of people with an income below 50% of median income (PDF:312KB) Table 5-18. Minimum wage-fixing mechanisms (PDF:570KB) in Japanese Table 5-19. Changes in the minimum wage ...