PPT-Income Inequality and

Income Inequality and Poverty How Much Income Inequality Exists in the United States Share of Money Income by Quintile 197020112014 During the last four decades the share of income earned by the top quintile has steadily risen whereas that earned by the lowest has fallen. Dr Carlie Goldsmith . Aims of the workshop . Introduce you to academic debates on social inequality. . Examine rates of income and wealth inequality in Britain and comparatively. . Examine evidence that shows how the size of the gaps in income affects social life, and in particular the prevalence of social problems. . By Tanya Maria Golash-Boza. . Earning and Labor Market Inequality Represents a Large Gap . “… in 2013, the United States had more income inequality than Mexico … inequality is mapped on race and gender lines” (p. 237). Why It Is Important. Marriage’s Role in Society. “The well-being of the individual person and of human and Christian society is intimately linked with the healthy condition of that community produced by marriage and family” -- . Professor Diane Elson. University of Essex UK. Presentation to Advanced Graduate Workshop. Initiative for Policy Dialogue. Bangalore January 2015. Inequality of . w. hat?. Preference satisfaction? . GINI Coefficients. Author: Zack Beamer. How severe is income inequality?. How can this be measured?. Ratio of CEO to Worker pay. †:. 354 to 1. Workers: $34,645. S&P 500 CEOs: $12,259,894. Is this a rigorous method of measuring inequality?. Matter; How . Does it Differ to Focussing on . Poverty?. Duncan Green. Oxfam GB. Ambedkar. University. November 2013. What do we mean by Poverty?. Absolute v Relative income. Multidimensional – narrow (. Dr Max Price. Vice-Chancellor. University of Cape Town. OUTLINE. Examine trends post-apartheid (since 1994). Income inequality. Overall, by race, by gender. Poverty . Overall, by race, by gender. Composition of income and impact of social grants. Going Backwards in the Measurement of Human Development?. Pedro Conceição. Chief-Economist, Regional Bureau for Africa, UNDP. Second Conference on Measuring Progress. What do we Talk About when we Talk About Inequality?. Mike Savage. The ‘inequality space’ . Concerns about inequality have dramatically surged into public interest over past decade, led by economists Stiglitz, Atkinson, Piketty.. Considerable academic investment in cross-disciplinary research in this area, . Causes and Consequences. Eshragh Motahar. Fall 2016. Introduction. What do we mean by inequality. Income (pre-tax, post-tax), Wealth. Is it inevitable. Historical context. What is new?. Why should we care about it . Jeffrey Frankel. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation & Growth. Harvard . University. Clair Wilcox Lecture. Swarthmore . College, October . 24, 2016. 1. Who was Clair Wilcox?. T. aught . at Swarthmore from 1927 to 1968. Sam . Levitus. . and Professor David Schaffer. Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Background and Overview of Research.  . There has been much attention given to income inequality within the U.S. labor market, especially recently. From the huge amount of discussion and debate about wage inequality (from both the political left and the right), two salient points emerge: that the U.S. labor market shows a far more unequal distribution of wages than the labor markets of other developed countries, and that the overall U.S. wage structure has become dramatically more unequal over the past several decades. We were ill-equipped to investigate the first claim but sought to thoroughly analyze the second, paying particular attention to the components of wage inequality—and their relative importance—in recent years. To accomplish this, we performed several statistical analyses on survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau (we did not use any data from other countries for either analysis or comparison). Our results do indeed confirm the second claim; by every single measurement we used, wages are far more unequal today than they were in the past. In particular, the top few percentiles have made large gains over the past forty years, while most other workers’ wages have been nearly stagnant. Introduction and Overview. June 1, 2015 / 9am to 12pm. Janet C. Gornick. Director, LIS (Luxembourg). Director, LIS Center (New York). Professor of Political Science and Sociology, . Graduate . Center, City University of New York . Issues to be . addressed by the HLEG subgroup on income and wealth inequality. Thomas . Piketty. Paris School of Economics. OECD, . January 16. th. 2014. « W. ork. under the “income and wealth inequality” theme would take stock of...