Salary and Earning Gaps

Increasing disparities in income and access to services

In other words, women tended to be concentrated in the lowest income groups, or to put it another way, the gap in the distribution of income among women expanded.

Income disparities between and within countries have continued to widen.

The Committee is concerned that in the Hong Kong SAR insufficient resources are allocated to reduce poverty and that income disparities are increasing within the population.

And as soon as you've got that idea, you should immediately wonder what happens if we widen the differences, or compress them, make the income differences bigger or smaller?

Sweden has huge differences in earnings, and it narrows the gap through taxation, general welfare state, generous benefits and so on.

Of special concern was the disparity in terms of income between the richest and poorest countries, which was exacerbated by the decline of official development assistance.

27. The tax system has made a major contribution towards the reduction of disparities in income and wealth.

Yet, in 2002, women's average income per hour was 36.7 NIS and men's 45.3 NIS, a 23 gap, indicating that the difference cannot be solely attributed to the number of working hours.

This contrast is associated with broad income differences between owners and renters.

A fair proportion of the people do not have access to adequate quantities of food, mainly because of disparities in income.

It gets really, really ugly out towards 2030.

In social terms, corruption places a disproportionate burden on the poor and widens income disparity.

In an age of rising inequality, at least some countries have narrowed their wealth and income gaps. Brazil is the recent pacesetter, markedly expanding public education and systematically attacking remaining pockets of poverty through targeted transfer programs.

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That period was, in many people s view, tarnished by greed, with rapid GDP growth accompanied by increasing inequality of income and wellbeing.

In many cases, reforms had not yielded the expected benefits but instead, had resulted in rising unemployment, growing income gaps, and inadequate social protection.

To calculate how much of a latecomer advantage China has after 35 years of unprecedented growth, one needs to look at the gap between its levels of technological and industrial development and those of high income countries. The best way to see this is by comparing its per capita income, adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), with those of developed countries.

Earning differentials equal pay for work of equal value

Poverty in the Caribbean was generally characterized by large income disparities and was linked to a high rate of unemployment.

Homelessness and an increase in numbers of street children is one consequence of increasing income disparities.

Such inequities have created ever greater gaps between the immensely rich and those who have barely enough to survive.

But on the more unequal end U.K., Portugal, USA, Singapore the differences are twice as big.

In 2004, the wage gap in New Brunswick was 15.5 percent based on average hourly earnings.

There's a about a tenfold difference there, log scale up the side.

The income gap between developed and developing countries has widened, and poverty has increased in many developing countries.

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Again, quite big differences.

There is consequently a pressing need to focus more closely on the critical issues of economic and social development, in particular employment promotion and raising incomes that would reduce the gap between poor and rich, and between developing and developed countries.

Many academic studies have found that the rate of convergence tends to be about 2 per year. That is, each year, an economy tends to close 2 of the gap between its actual and potential income levels.

Nevertheless, poverty and the income gap between regions remain an obstacle to the implementation of the CEDAW Convention.

Such inequalities were attributable to differences in income levels and to explicit or implicit policy choices.

And that gap continues to widen.

The gap between the rich and the poor is widening.

Such an approach has its justification in the present variation in family incomes and the large number of families with low incomes, in a situation of limited State financial resources.

In Central America, the biggest inequalities, after Guatemala, are found in Nicaragua, with 56.2.

There was a huge difference in the world.

Yet important gaps still remain.

Paper submitted by the Intergovernmental Forum on Chemical Safety on the strategic approach to international chemicals management addressing the widening gap

Gaps and challenges in data collection and methodology

The speed of urban growth, coupled with increasing income disparities, has had a major impact on the structure and functions of social institutions, including education and the family.

Differentiation by income.

But real income gains of 1.3 per year for the middle quintiles and 1.1 for the bottom are not exactly chopped liver, are they? The gap with 1.6 average annual growth rate for per capita GDP is small, isn t it?

The Transatlantic Growth Gap