Why does the latest version of the chart look so much bleaker, with comparatively little income growth for the bottom half of the distribution and much more for the top 1 percent?

Income inequality is becoming a dominant topic of conversation, particularly as the 2020 presidential race heats up.

Economists have long come to accept inequality in the pace of wealth accumulation across the wealth distribution as a more accurate measure of inequality than income (Mankiw 2015). However, the ...

A World Bank study reveals that despite poverty reduction, wage inequality in the Philippines remains high due to slow growth ...

This chart is the one that convinces me that the increase in income inequality in the US is all about globalisation and about very little else. Further, as such it's simply not something that I ...

Pavlina Tcherneva’s chart showing the distribution of income gains during periods of economic expansion is burning up the economics internet over the past 24 hours and for good reason.

Real wages (wages after adjusting for price increases) at the tenth percentile of the wage distribution rose 15.3 percent from 2019 to 2024. At the twentieth percentile they rose 11.4 percent.

Wage: Hourly wage for salaried workers in their main occupation. Gini Coefficient: The most common measure of inequality is the Gini coefficient. It is based on the Lorenz curve, a cumulative ...

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