Re:If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power
by adamsea on Wednesday June 06, 2018 @12:39PM
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In 2014 The Gini coefficient for Mauritas was 30 and for France it was 40.
The top 1% in France has about 20% of the total income as of 2014.
For Mauritas no suitable data was found for wealth inequality or dispersion of earnings.
The lack of good data for Mauritas makes a comparison between the two questionable.
Plus even after looking at the numbers for these countries I would want to check out money laundering - if I recall, based on the Panama papers, a nontrivial amount of the 1% (probably more like the 0.1%s) wealth is laundered/hidden/dark. I don’t know if the studies here attempt to account for that or not. I would imagine money laundering is prevalent in France (or any major economy for that matter), possibly in Mauritas
As of 2018 the population of Mauritas is 1.26 million (via google search). The 2018 population of France is 65.23 million (via google search). The 2014 population probably was not radically different.
I wonder if the size of the society in question matters here - is comparing a country to one 65 times larger than it useful?
I did not look for data to validate the hypothesis that everyone is pretty happy in Mauritas as opposed to France.
The top 1% in France has about 20% of the total income as of 2014.
For Mauritas no suitable data was found for wealth inequality or dispersion of earnings.
The lack of good data for Mauritas makes a comparison between the two questionable.
Plus even after looking at the numbers for these countries I would want to check out money laundering - if I recall, based on the Panama papers, a nontrivial amount of the 1% (probably more like the 0.1%s) wealth is laundered/hidden/dark. I don’t know if the studies here attempt to account for that or not. I would imagine money laundering is prevalent in France (or any major economy for that matter), possibly in Mauritas
https://www.chartbookofeconomicinequality.com/inequality-by-...
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As of 2018 the population of Mauritas is 1.26 million (via google search). The 2018 population of France is 65.23 million (via google search). The 2014 population probably was not radically different.
I wonder if the size of the society in question matters here - is comparing a country to one 65 times larger than it useful?
I did not look for data to validate the hypothesis that everyone is pretty happy in Mauritas as opposed to France.