Instead, the pattern of income loss began after a woman became a mother.
This polarization is producing a pattern of income distribution rarely seen outside Africa or Latin America, and unheard of in the United States, at least since the gilded age.
The tax system is in the first instance a tool for financing public spending, not a tool for maintaining a particular pattern of income and wealth.
But even a fairer tax system only nibbles at the edges of the pattern of income distribution yielded by an economy with such deep structural asymmetry of power between capital and labour.
These institutions, good and bad, put down roots and the result, broadly speaking, is the pattern of income you see today around the world.Institutions are more difficult to change than policies, of course.
If the pattern of income growth under postwar Republican presidents had matched the pattern under Democrats, incomes would be more equal now than they were in 1950 — a far cry from the contemporary reality of what some observers are calling a New Gilded Age.
Getting rich by starting a company is one thing; getting rich by moving money around is another.As a result of these movements at the top end, Britain "now has a more American pattern of income distribution", according to Oliver Letwin, the Conservative Party's philosopher-in-chief. But, Mr Letwin notes, there is not yet an American-style culture of giving back to society in return for success.
They tend to overlap and intertwine with each other to determine the pattern of income distribution in transitional China.
This section documents the pattern of income inequality in Argentina with respect to selected Latin American countries.
Although previous studies suggest that sector variation is a critical source of income inequality in China, the simple dichotomous classification of state and market sectors is far from adequate for understanding the pattern of income distribution in contemporary China.
