With such crossovers, it may be argued that the standard way of estimating health worker inequalities will bias the estimates upwards.
Pay is increasing more quickly for upper-income workers, causing inequality to rise in ways it has not since the early 1990's, economists say.
So the rise of the machines may generate huge economic benefits; but unless it is carefully managed, those gains may be captured by shareholders and highly educated knowledge workers, exacerbating inequality and leaving some groups out in the cold.
First, it describes and measures health worker distributional inequalities in Tanzania on a per capita basis; second, it suggests and applies additional health care needs indicators in the measurement of distributional inequalities.
Superimposing concentration curves for health care needs in the same diagram as the Lorenz curves for the distribution of the health workforce provides a simple and clear graphical illustration of the importance of alternative indicators of health care needs for the measurement of health worker distributional inequalities.
Global capital flows have powered growth and investment, but also increased risk of contagion, weakened the bargaining power of workers, and accelerated inequality.
The bishops are struggling to reclaim the role they played in the 1980s and into the '90s as a nationally recognized voice on the moral dimension of public policy issues like economic inequality, workers' rights, immigration and nuclear weapons proliferation.
Archbishop Dolan's election consolidates the gradual shift in leadership and priorities for the bishops' conference, which from the 1970s through the 1990s issued decrees on more traditionally liberal concerns like economic inequality, workers rights, the environment and peace.
As a socialist, disabled person, and member of the Labour party all my adult life, I have waited for the leadership to focus on inequality, workers' rights and social security.
