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  2. Socioeconomic mobility in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Illustration from a 1916 advertisement for a vocational school in the back of a US magazine. Education has been seen as a key to socioeconomic mobility, and the advertisement appealed to Americans' belief in the possibility of self-betterment as well as threatening the consequences of downward mobility in the great income inequality existing during the Industrial Revolution.

  3. Economic mobility - Wikipedia

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    Exchange mobility is the mobility that results from a "reshuffling" of incomes among the economic agents, with no change in the income amounts. For example, in the case of two agents, a change in income distribution might be {1,2}-> {2,1}. This is a case of pure exchange mobility, since they have simply exchanged incomes.

  4. Income distribution - Wikipedia

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    This works best if we assume that they are rational and make decisions in their best interest. Income mobility. Income mobility is another factor in the study of income inequality. It describes how people change their economic well-being, i.e. move in the hierarchy of earning power over their lifetime. When someone improves his economic ...

  5. Retirement annuities: Pros and cons of annuity investing - AOL

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    That means they earn a commission on the products they sell you. While the commission is usually baked into the annuity contract, it can amount to anywhere from 1-10 percent of the total value of ...

  6. Gini coefficient - Wikipedia

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    As another example, in a population where the lowest 50% of individuals have no income, and the other 50% have equal income, the Gini coefficient is 0.5; whereas for another population where the lowest 75% of people have 25% of income and the top 25% have 75% of the income, the Gini index is also 0.5.

  7. Income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, average market income was $15,600 for the lowest quintile and $280,300 for the highest quintile. The degree of inequality accelerated within the top quintile, with the top 1% at $1.8 million, approximately 30 times the $59,300 income of the middle quintile.

  8. Circular flow of income - Wikipedia

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    The circular flow of income or circular flow is a model of the economy in which the major exchanges are represented as flows of money, goods and services, etc. between economic agents. The flows of money and goods exchanged in a closed circuit correspond in value, but run in the opposite direction. The circular flow analysis is the basis of ...

  9. Economic growth - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Economic growth can be defined as the increase or improvement in the inflation-adjusted market value of the goods and services produced by an economy in a financial year. [1] Statisticians conventionally measure such growth as the percent rate of increase in the real and nominal gross domestic product (GDP).