Chapter 30: Q.15 (page 691)
Based on your answers to Problems 30-13 and 30-14, when A increased, did the degree of income inequality increase or decrease? Explain why your answer makes sense by referring to the implied change in the shape of the Lorenz curve.
when A increased, the degree of income inequality increased
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Identify whether each of the following proposed poverty measures is an absolute or relative measure of poverty, and discuss whether poverty could ever be eliminated if that measure were utilized.
a. An inflation-adjusted annual income of \(25,000 for an urban family of four
b. Individuals with annual incomes among the lowest 15 percent
c. An inflation-adjusted annual income of \) 10,000 per person
Explain why the productivity standard for the distribution of income entails rewarding people based on their contribution to society's total output. Why does the productivity standard typically fail to yield an equal distribution of income?
Describe how to use a Lorenz curve to represent a nation's income distribution
A government agency determines that the entire community discussed in Problem 30-10 qualifies for a special program in which the government will pay for a number of health care services that most residents previously had not consumed. Many residents immediately make appointments with the community physicians' group. Given the information in Problem 30-10, what is the likely effect on the profit-maximizing price and the equilibrium quantity of health care services provided by the physicians' group in this community?
During the past decade, many members of the baby boom generation have passed through ages ranging from the middle 40s to the late 50s. Do you suppose that the fact that there have been more members of this generation than other generations in the population during this past decade tends to imply that there was higher or lower measured inequality over the period? Why?
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