Abstract
In his monumental and seminal book Capital in the Twenty-first Century, Thomas Piketty (2014) meticulously analyzes and presents the cross-country dynamics of income inequality over the past two centuries. He offers a myriad of underlying factors and trends that have over time led to vast wealth and power accumulation of a few and limited upward mobility for the rest. His main argument is that in order to gain wealth and opportunity, birth matters more than effort or talent.
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“GII measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development—reproductive health, measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates; empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and older with at least some secondary education; and economic status, expressed as labor market participation and measured by labor force participation rate of female and male populations aged 15 years and older (UNDP, 2016).”
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See Appendix B.
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100,000/year≈8000/month≈2000/week≈400/day.
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Gross impact is percentage increase in per capita GDP assuming women having the same hours of work and productivity as men. Net impact is adjusted for productivity drag and part time work.
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Chamlou, N. (2016). Gender Inequality and Income Inequality in Iran. In: Farzanegan, M., Alaedini, P. (eds) Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95025-6_6
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