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For example, the "elasticity of demand with respect to income" or the "income elasticity of demand" for a product refers to the percentage change in the quantity of the product demanded in response to a 1% change in consumers' income, or more generally to the ratio of the percentage change in quantity demanded to the percentage change in income.
FRASER (The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research) is a digital archive begun in 2004 to safeguard, preserve and provide easy access to the United States’ economic history—particularly the history of the Federal Reserve System—through digitization of documents related to the U.S. financial system. [6]
income accounts, which show primary and secondary income flows—both the income generated in production (e.g. wages and salaries) and distributive income flows (predominantly the redistributive effects of government taxes and social benefit payments). The balancing item of the accounts is disposable income ("National Income" when measured for ...
Income of a given percentage as a ratio to median, for 10th (red), 20th, 50th, 80th, 90th, and 95th (grey) percentile, for 1967–2003 in the United States (50th percentile is 1:1 by definition) Particularly common to compare a given percentile to the median, as in the first chart here; compare seven-number summary , which summarizes a ...
In finance, the term accretion refers to a positive change in value following a transaction; it is applied in several contexts.. When trading in bonds, accretion is the capital gain expected when a bond is bought at a discount to its par value, [1] given that, it is expected to mature at par.
Aggregate income [1] [2] [3] is the total of all incomes in an economy without adjustments for inflation, taxation, or types of double counting. [4] Aggregate income is a form of GDP that is equal to Consumption expenditure plus net profits. 'Aggregate income' in economics is a broad conceptual term.
In economics, the wage ratio refers to the ratio of the top salaries in a group (company, city, country, etc.) to the bottom salaries. It is a measure of wage dispersion . There has been a resurgence in the importance of the wage ratio as well as the CEO Pay Ratio .
The economic history of the United States spans the colonial era through the 21st century. The initial settlements depended on agriculture and hunting/trapping, later adding international trade, manufacturing, and finally, services, to the point where agriculture represented less than 2% of GDP .