Causes poverty
Unemployment
Lack skills
Health issues
Income dependency
Inheritance
Causes changing poverty
State support
Gov spending / taxation
Horizontal equity
Vertical equity
High salaries = higher income growth
Uk poverty
Inequality wages growing
De-industrialisation - service sector job increases
Growth underemployment
Poverty growing
Finish coefficient
A / A+B
Kuznets hypothesis
As society develops movement agriculture = industry inequality increases
( industrial workers wages increase faster than farmers )
Wealth redistributed thru tax + gov spending = fall
Piketty argues
Inequality increases as country develops as rate of return increase so rich get richer
Signifance capitalist economy
Income inequality
Wage differentials
Individuals own resources = differ wealth
Argues equality never achieved
Inequality = essential for capitalism