Reading Time: 3 minutes Age and accumulated wealth account for much of the discrepancy. And that’s just normal life-cycle economics
Author: Chris Sarlo
Chris Sarlo has a PhD in economics from Queen’s University and has taught economics at Nipissing University since 1984. His research over the past twenty years has focussed on the measurement of poverty and he has published a number of articles and monographs on the subject. He is a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute and is a ardent supporter of individual liberty and free markets
We need to measure basic-needs poverty, not inequality
Reading Time: 3 minutes The fundamental problem with relative measures of poverty is that they often give us results that border on absurd
Are living standards in Canada becoming more unequal?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Results of a recent Fraser Institute report flies in the face of accepted wisdom that Canada is quickly becoming a more unequal and polarized society
Our continuing obsession with inequality
Reading Time: 3 minutes The grand pooh-bahs at Davos were more concerned with inequality than they were with poverty and terrorism
Why measurement matters in income inequality
Reading Time: 3 minutes Oversimplifying this issue to arrive at predetermined results risks making the situation worse
Income inequality not the best measure of living standards
Reading Time: 3 minutes If we look at individuals rather than families, income inequality has, in fact, declined a bit since the early 1980s