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  2. Decoupling of wages from productivity - Wikipedia

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    The decoupling of median wages from productivity, sometimes known as the great decoupling, [1] is the gap between the growth rate of median wages and the growth rate of GDP per person or productivity. Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee highlighted this problem toward the end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first ...

  3. Causes of income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Median income for female earners male earners increased 157.2% versus 36.2% for men, over four times as fast. Today the median male worker earns roughly 68.4% more than their female counterparts, compared to 176.3% in 1953. The median income of men in 2005 was 2% higher than in 1973 compared to a 74.6% increase for female earners. [71]

  4. Income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Because census data does not measure changes in individual households, it is not suitable for studying income mobility. [252] A major gap in the measurement of income inequality is the exclusion of capital gains, profits made on increases in the value of investments. Capital gains are excluded for purely practical reasons.

  5. 7 Things Millennials Say Cause Them To Live Paycheck to Paycheck

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    The least common cause of living paycheck to paycheck in the survey was an unstable employment situation, with only 10.7% of millennials citing it as the reason for their financial struggles.

  6. Middle income trap - Wikipedia

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    They trace the causes of the trap to the structural problems and the inequalities generated in the early development process. According to them, the wealthy elites then follow their interests by bargaining for a strong currency which shifts the economy's structure towards the consumption of luxury goods and low-wage labor laws, which prevents ...

  7. Effects of economic inequality - Wikipedia

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    Buildings in Rio de Janeiro, demonstrating economic inequality. Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, [1] a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness [2] [3] and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption. [4]

  8. Income distribution - Wikipedia

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    China's Gini coefficient has risen from 0,31 to 0,491 between the years 1981 and 2008. The main reason for China's high Gini coefficient is an income gap between rural and urban household. The share of the urban–rural income gap in total income inequality increased by 10 per cent over the period 1995–2007, rising from 38 to 48%. [59]

  9. Economic inequality - Wikipedia

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    Economic inequality is an umbrella term for a) income inequality or distribution of income (how the total sum of money paid to people is distributed among them), b) wealth inequality or distribution of wealth (how the total sum of wealth owned by people is distributed among the owners), and c) consumption inequality (how the total sum of money spent by people is distributed among the spenders).