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Household incomes

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Household income equality: changing families or changing pay-cheques?

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Household income equality: changing families or changing pay-cheques?

You are unlikely to have come across a discussion of the US economy recently without a reference to income inequality and wage stagnation. It is widely accepted that the Gini Index, a measure of the distribution of income in the economy, has increased markedly from the 1960s; that is, incomes

Downing Lecture 2012 – GFC and Household Incomes

Downing Lecture

Downing Lecture 2012 – GFC and Household Incomes

I attended my first Downing Lecture on Thursday night, and heard a fascinating speech by Professor John Micklewright, a research fellow from the Melbourne Institute. It was an interesting account on how the GFC had affected household incomes and income distribution across OECD countries. This blogpost will focus only on