A. the ratio of the percentage of total income received by the top 20% of families to the percentage of total income received by by the bottom 20% of families
B. the most common way of representing the income distribution graphically
C. a commonly used measure of the degree of inequality in an income distribution
D. a commonly used measure of the degree of inequity in an income distribution
Related Mcqs:
- A Gini coefficient of one means that ?
A. all the income is received by the top 20% of the income distribution
B. income is distributed equally
C. the income is split equally between the top 20% and the rest of the distribution.
D. one family has all the income and every one else has nothing. - A Gini coefficient of zero means that the ?
A. the income is split equally between the top 20% and the rest of the distribution
B. one person has all the income and every one else has nothing
C. all the income is received by the top 20% of the income distribution
D. income is equally distributed - A value of 1 in Gini index represents ?
A. low inequality
B. maximum inequality
C. 10/10 000% inequality
D. 1% inequality - The maximin criterion suggested by Rawls’s theory of justice means that the government should aim to ?
A. Maximize the total utility of society
B. Maximize the well-being of the worst-off person in society
C. minimize the difference between the rich and poor
D. maximize the economic freedom of individuals by minimizing government interference in private decision making
E. minimize the well-being of the best-off person in society - If the income effect is smaller than the substitution effect, higher net wages will ?
A. reduce the supply of labour.
B. increase the demand for labour
C. increase the supply of labour
D. have no effect on the supply of labour - The term ‘rent’ as it is used by economists. refers to ?
A. the return to any factor of production that is in fixed supply
B. the profit earned by the owner of any housing unit.
C. the amount paid each year by a tenant for an apartment
D. any profit earned by stockholders when they sell their stock - Tax shifting ?
A. is the way in which a tax is structured
B. occurs when households can alter their behaviour and do something to avoid paying tax
C. occurs when taxes cause prices to increase but wages to fall.
D. is the ultimate distribution of a tax’s burden - Rank utilitarianism liberalism, and libertarianism in sequence from the political philosophy that would redistribute income the greatest to the one that would redistribute income the least?
A. utilitarianism, liberalism, libertarianism
B. All three political philosophies argue for similar degree of income redistribution
C. liberalism, libertarianism, utilitarianism
D. libertarianism liberalism, utilarianism
E. libertariansim, utilitarianism, libertarianism - Assuming that leisure is a normal good. if an individual’s labour supply curve is backward bending then the ?
A. income effect is zero
B. substitution effect outweighs the income effect
C. income effect outweighs the substitution effect
D. income effect and the substitution effects are equal - Where a tax can be shifted the incidence depends on ?
A. whether there is perfect or imperfect information
B. who is legally obliged to pay the tax
C. elasticities of demand and supply
D. how many producers there are:
