{"id":1352,"date":"2016-06-05T21:29:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T04:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/?p=1352"},"modified":"2016-06-05T21:29:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T04:29:50","slug":"gini-coefficients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/05\/gini-coefficients\/","title":{"rendered":"Gini Coefficients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Latest issue of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/briefing\/21699910-arguments-state-stipend-payable-all-citizens-are-being-heard-more-widely-sighing\">Economist features a discussion on State stipends\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0, but what caught my eye is a table of Gini Coefficients and changes from 1985 to 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Not surprising, inequality is the trend. If Sweden was more equal 30 years ago (around 0.2), it is now 0.28.\u00a0Better than\u00a0OECD average, but definitely a decline.<\/p>\n<p>Notice that the trend is uniform as well as the OECD average. Japan, which was considered a rather &#8220;equal&#8221; country, is NOT. And even a bit worse than the average.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1353\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gini-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gini Coefficients \" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gini-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Gini.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Digging into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oecd.org\/social\/income-distribution-database.htm\">additional (old) OECD numbers\u00a0<\/a>, show the same trends, with Israel being even worse than Japan, and not much better than the US.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OECD-Gini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1354\" src=\"http:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OECD-Gini-300x230.jpg\" alt=\"OECD Gini\" width=\"300\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OECD-Gini-300x230.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OECD-Gini-768x589.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/OECD-Gini.jpg 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIs there something I can do about this ? Probably not, but let me think some more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest issue of the Economist features a discussion on State stipends\u00a0\u00a0, but what caught my eye is a table of Gini Coefficients and changes from 1985 to 2013. Not surprising, inequality is the trend. If Sweden was more equal 30 years ago (around 0.2), it is now 0.28.\u00a0Better than\u00a0OECD average, but definitely a decline. Notice &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/2016\/06\/05\/gini-coefficients\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gini Coefficients&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1352\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.telyas.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}