Question
A 2023 paper by Auten and Splinter argues that this phenomenon’s apparent shift in the US since 1960 is explained in part by declining marriage rates. That paper disputes an analysis of this phenomenon based on data from the Panama Papers by Gabriel Zucman. David Autor argues that computerization accelerated this phenomenon because skill-biased technological change has increased the education premium. A reason for an increase in this phenomenon is summarized as (*) “r is greater than g” and was popularized in the book Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty. This phenomenon is higher in countries with a value closer to one for the Gini coefficient. For 10 points, name this phenomenon of uneven distribution of economic resources. ■END■
ANSWER: income inequality [or wealth inequality; or economic inequality; accept economic or wealth or income disparity; accept economic or wealth or income gap; accept answers that indicate inequality increasing or the gap getting wider]
<Michael Bentley, Social Science - Economics> ~28554~ <Editor: Vincent Du>
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