In math, the gap shrank 20 percentage points.
The gap shrank 4.7percenttoto 1.69 trillion yen $15.7 billionn) from a year earlier, the finance ministry said.
The gap shrank in the July-September period after contracting to $107.6 billion in the second quarter, the Commerce Department said.
At a later vote on the social-security budget in July, however, the gap shrank to just 18.
The gap shrank most impressively in the South, for workers in all age groups, suggesting that educational improvements and migration were not primarily responsible.
The gap shrank in the early 1990's, when the recession took an especially high toll in New Jersey, and then widened again with the economic expansion in the second half of the decade.
Across the entire firm the gap is 15.1% (below the national average of 19.4%), however when you compare like for like, so those doing the same job, the gap shrinks to just 2.5%.
Each month the gap shrinks between a new digital service emerging in the U.S. and it being copied in other markets.
Under the influence of an external magnetic field, Coulomb blockade resonances fluctuate around an average energy and the gap shrinks as a function of magnetic field.
Despite iOS staying ahead of Play for app revenue generation in 2013, App Annie does note that the gap shrank because of the role played by Japan — which overtook the U.S. to become the number one country for app revenue last year.
She says there is a general consensus that the oldest in the year do better than their younger peers, and while the gap shrinks over time, it can persist through to GCSEs and have a long-lasting effect on employment opportunities.
