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There is also evidence that the
distribution
of returns to capital is becoming increasingly skewed toward these sectors.
Because the required skills acquired through formal education have become relatively scarcer, the education premium has risen, underpinning a more uneven
distribution
of income and wealth.
A greater effort to raise the average level of education in America would have made the country richer and produced a more even
distribution
of income and wealth by making educated workers more abundant and less-skilled workers harder to find – and thus worth more on the market.
In short, 2006 will be marked by mounting uncertainty about prospects for global economic growth, even as the
distribution
of the fruits of that growth remain dismally predictable.
Governments must fund mosquito-control and prevention programs, from the use of insecticides to the
distribution
of mosquito nets, as well as public-education campaigns and vaccination initiatives.
Even in the best-case scenario, in which income
distribution
did begin to improve, one thing economists of all stripes agree on is that change would be glacially slow.
These economists argue that labor markets with few restrictions on hiring and firing, low taxes on entrepreneurship, and generous incentives for innovation are compatible with a relatively equal income distribution, high social spending by government, and equalizing social policies such as universal free education.
Another similarity between Japan’s current crisis and the recent financial crisis is that the false risk assessment was largely due to the asymmetric
distribution
of social welfare and individual cost implied by more effective risk mitigation.
There is a
distribution
of possible growth rates, and the forecaster is telling us just one of the outcomes that he can contemplate.
But if a forecaster tells us that he “expects” a growth rate of 3%, does that mean that he thinks that it is as likely to be above 3% as it is to be below 3% – the “median,” as he sees it, of the
distribution
of possible growth rates?
It is possible for them to hold that view and still forecast 2% growth for the next 12 months as the most likely outcome or the “median” of their probability
distribution.
Some surveys of forecasts report the
distribution
of the forecasts of the different individuals being surveyed.
Noting that developing countries invest much less on scientific research and produce fewer scientists, Annan warned that the resulting imbalance in the geographic
distribution
of scientific activity creates problems for both the scientific community in developing countries and for development itself.
Among the biggest benefits would be the electrification of areas that, under current
distribution
systems, are literally in the dark.
The New Socialism of FoolsBERKELEY – According to mainstream economic theory, globalization tends to “lift all boats,” and has little effect on the broad
distribution
of incomes.
So, at least in theory, the shift in US employment from assembly-line manufacturing to construction, services, and caretaking may have had an impact on the overall
distribution
of income in terms of gender, but not in terms of class.
This rebalancing has helped to improve China’s income
distribution.
Yet the income
distribution
has lately worsened, with inequality now potentially even more severe in Asia than in the developed economies of the West.
No one can deny that the
distribution
of income is scandalously unequal in Latin America.
But it will come as a surprise to Piketty’s boosters (many of whom have yet to read his book) that his theory has little, if anything, to do with the measured dynamics of income
distribution
in the region.
Piketty’s theory concerns what economists call the functional
distribution
of income, or the split between providers of labor and owners of capital.
But the maldistribution that causes so much unease in Latin America concerns the personal
distribution
of labor income – that is, the split among wage earners.
That, in turn, reveals two bits of information – both grim – about income
distribution
in Latin America.
First, the true personal
distribution
of income – comprising all income, whether from labor or from capital – is almost surely worse than commonly cited headline figures suggest.
Second, even if all of the capital dynamics that so concern Piketty could be wished away, the
distribution
of income in Latin America would still be appallingly skewed.
Nonetheless, several features of current growth patterns stand out: excess productive capacity, persistent high leverage, declining labor content in goods-and-services production, and an increasingly unequal
distribution
of income both between labor and capital, and across labor-income segments, with their differential savings rates.
Last month, Draghi became the first central banker to take seriously the idea of helicopter money – the direct
distribution
of newly created money from the central bank to eurozone residents.
Meanwhile, the adverse trends in income
distribution
both preceded the crisis and have survived it.
The income gains from GDP growth have been mostly concentrated in the upper quartile of the
distribution.
This may be bad for the
distribution
of wealth and income, because it will enrich the creditor at the expense of the debtor, but there will be no net burden on future generations.
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