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OECD – Inequality – Skills Gap : Increasing Earnings Gap due to a Skills Gap Calls for Up-skilling
“Over the two decades to the onset of the global economic crisis, real disposable household incomes increased in all OECD countries, by 1.7% a year, on average. In a large majority of OECD countries, household incomes of the top 10% grew faster than those of the poorest 10%, leading to widening income inequality” and “increases … Continue reading
In The News | US Labor Market Is In A Full-Blown Depression, Joseph Stiglitz on The Price of Inequality, States with the widest income gap, Certificates pay off, Layoffs, layoffs and a bit of hiring plus Much More
The US Labor Market Is In A Full-Blown Depression zerohedge.com – Now that stocks are back to reflecting nothing more than expectations of how many times the Chairsatan dilutes the existing monetary base in a carbon copy replica of not only 2011 but also 2010… … JobMarketMon Joseph Stiglitz on “The Price of Inequality: How Today’s … Continue reading
Market Economy | The labor market has been creating much more inequality over the last thirty years
“The labor market has been creating much more inequality over the last thirty years, with the very top earners capturing a large fraction of macroeconomic productivity gains. A number of factors may help explain this increase in inequality, not only underlying technological changes but also the retreat of institutions developed during the New Deal and World War II – … Continue reading
German Gender Gap | Most unfair society in Europe says an OECD Report
The Local – German women have to contend with the biggest gender gaps in wages and career opportunities in Europe, according to a new study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). The report found that women in full-time jobs earn an average of 21.6 percent less than their male colleagues. This is … Continue reading
Inequality and Redistribution during the Great Recession – Economic Policy Papers – Publications & Papers | The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
In this paper, we explore the impact of the Great Recession on economic inequality and redistribution in the United States. We analyze many sorts of inequality (in earnings, disposable income, consumption expenditures and wealth) for different sections of the economic distribution. Here we highlight three central findings. In 2010, the bottom 20 percent of the … Continue reading
The Wealth Gap – Inequality in Numbers – BBC News
Until protestors took to the streets last year, first in New York and then in financial centres across the world, inequality had been a low-key issue. Not any more. With the political temperature rising, a stream of new analysis is revealing how sharply inequality has been growing. In October, the US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) … Continue reading
OECD | Divided We Stand: Why Inequality Keeps Rising | 10 links
Tax and benefit systems play a major role in reducing market-driven inequality, but have become less effective at redistributing income since the mid-1990s. The main reason lies on the benefits side: benefits levels fell in nearly all OECD countries, eligibility rules were tightened to contain spending on social protection, and transfers to the poorest failed … Continue reading
Income Inequality is Bad for Society. Really Bad. – Sociological Images
Societies with more income inequality have higher infant death rates than other societies: Societies with more income inequality have higher rates of mental illness than other societies: Societies with more income inequality have a higher incidence of drug use than other societies: Societies with more income inequality have a higher high school drop out rate than … Continue reading
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