Professor Taylor blames “increasing returns to education” for the widening income inequality of the 1983 – 2000 period. This is obviously not true. Taylor’s “education” theory ...

This graph tells you that the richest 1 percent ... shocked participants a series of questions, including: Is income inequality a problem? Indeed, participants were persuaded that it was.

There is a simple theory of inequality in which rich ... It starts with a graph similar to the one above, which shows average pre-tax income by decile from the lowest-income 10% (households ...

Here's that theory in a graph: If this theory is correct, then it's the very nature of the global economy that could be exacerbating income inequality and slowing overall U.S. growth. In the 1950s ...

The conservatives argued that the standard data used to illustrate inequality is incomplete; Saez, Piketty, and Zucman have completed it, and demonstrated that income growth has been quite low for ...

Investopedia / Yurle Villegas A Lorenz curve, developed by American economist Max Lorenz in 1905, is a graphical representation of income inequality or wealth inequality. The graph plots ...

Inequality inhibits that potential, Durlauf said. There are many ways to measure income inequality, including comparing people from different income percentiles and assessing how far away a ...

He is particularly interested in global health and pandemic prevention, anti-poverty efforts, economic policy and theory ... high top-end income growth found in the World Inequality Report.

With two traditional measures and two new ones, the study adds much to our knowledge of inequality. The first two measures are of wealth and income. As the chart below shows, current disparities are ...

Global inequality is rising ... It’s the same place where a full-time male worker’s income is lower today than it was half a century ago. If you take the old trade theory seriously, it actually ...

A lot of folks in Seattle are doing very well. Census data released this month showed the median income for city households hit $121,000, up about 18% since before the pandemic, when the median ...

(Image/Reuters) Income inequality in India has declined, with more than a third of taxpayers moving to higher income tax buckets, while top taxpayers’ contributions declining, the Economic ...