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In the US, the United Kingdom, Japan, and several eurozone countries, median real (inflation-adjusted) wages remain below their 2007 levels.
Minimum wages, particularly in the US, were allowed to fall relative to median incomes.
This has resulted in stagnating median incomes and rising income inequality, both of which constrain the private-consumption component of aggregate demand.
The global net benefit of the increased flow of migrants for 25 years is between $13 trillion and $39 trillion – close to the median estimated gains from the Doha round.
Most important, Myanmar is rich in human potential, with a diverse and youthful workforce – the median age is just 28 – ready to take their country forward.
Although more than 30 million people still live in poverty, this is millions less than only a few years ago;- Real median family income is at its highest level in over 30 years;- Unemployment is at its lowest level in 30 years;- Over the past few years, the income share of the bottom 20% of households is at its lowest in over 30 years, while the income share of the top 5%-20% of households is at its highest.
Those seeking the positive will find in the statistics concerning increased median income, reduced poverty, and record low unemployment; those in search of the bleak will find it in the 12% of America’s population that remains poor and in the country’s increasing concentration of wealth at the top.
Thus the mixed verdict is this: less poverty, higher median incomes, and more inequality.
According to the Pew Research Center, the number of people with a favorable view of the EU fell by a median of 15% in Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Poland, and the Czech Republic last year.
This intuition is formalized in a well-known paper in political economy by Allan Meltzer and Scott Richard: the wider the income gap between the median and average voter, the higher the taxes and the greater the redistribution.
Most large Muslim countries have very young populations, with a median age in the mid- to upper twenties.
I would therefore estimate that the median rate of corporate-income tax is around 20%.
But most policymakers would likely object if they understood that growth would be achieved by higher taxes on two-thirds of households, leaving the median household working harder to earn the same after-tax income.
More research is needed on the variables that affect growth, such as median income.
The median time taken to approve new drugs fell from 833 days in 2006 to 306 days in 2012, according to the London-based Center for Innovation in Regulatory Science.
As this year’s Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey shows, there are already massive disparities across major global cities (measured by the ratio of median home prices to median household income).
In New York City, the median home price stands at 5.7 times median household income.
For example, the geographical boundaries of the areas used to compute median price and median rent may vary.
Three decades of relative social and economic stability then ensued, from the late 1940’s until the mid-1970’s, a period when inequality fell sharply and median incomes grew rapidly.
Nearly half of the unemployed in the US, for example, have now been out of work for six months or longer, up from the traditional median unemployment duration of just 10 weeks.
That might seem widely beneficial, but it would help only those in high enough tax brackets to itemize deductions – mostly households with annual income above $75,000 (median US household income was $54,462 in 2015).
The median age of Africa’s population is just 19.5 years.
The OZ program grants US governors the authority to designate up to 25% of low-income census tracts – those with an individual poverty rate of 20% or higher, and median family income below 80% of the state or territorial average – as OZs.
Median household income, adjusted for inflation, remains below its level a quarter-century ago.
In the US, even after the stock-market recovery, median wealth fell more than 40% from 2007 to 2013.
As is well known, the United States’ economy has grown significantly over the past three decades, but the median family’s income has not.
The left-wing party wants to redistribute wealth and incomes more, and the right-wing party less; but both need to restrain themselves, and in appealing to the median voter, they become near-identical alternatives.
Though median households are generally benefiting from lower borrowing costs, wealthier households are benefiting much more, thanks in part to savings on mortgage loans, which are highest relative to income for the upper middle class.
The median age may be as high as 49.6, quite close to Japan’s 53.3 and higher than in the Sweden, the United Kingdom, European Union as a whole, and the United States.
What prevents the median voter in a democracy from voting to dispossess the rich and successful?
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