Sentence examples for income measures from inspiring English sources

Median family income measures the income of relatives living together.

Gross domestic product emphasizes spending; gross domestic income measures … income.

Income measures a person's contribution of labor and capital to society's production of goods and services.

IT has transformed the lives of billions for the better, often in ways that standard income measures do not capture.

Multiyear income measures also show the same pattern of increasing inequality over time as is observed in annual measures.

Labor's share of income measures the percentage of corporate profits that go to pay wages to employees – as opposed to enriching shareholders and other owners.

Both Iain Duncan Smith and David Laws sought to convince the audience at the launch of the consultation that the government was not in retreat from the income measures contained in the CPA 2010.

(That is not the only reason; America also fared poorly on things like income measures).The problem with this is that even seemingly straightforward comparisons like this aren't necessarily apples to apples.

Yet it's far from obvious that inequality is likely to be responsible for downgrading current growth prospects – particularly in a country like the UK, where standard income measures of the gap between rich and poor have been broadly flat for decades.

It looks at some of the particular goals being considered, makes a distinction between economic goals, narrowly defined (which target income measures) and "social goals" (targeting health or education indicators) and says developing countries has been much more successful at tackling the former.

Advocates of consumption taxes argue that people should pay taxes based on what they take out of the pool of available goods (their consumption) rather than what they contribute to that pool (their income, under the implicit assumption that income measures the reward for productive work).