Sentences with phrase «income per capita also»

Not exact matches

Their study (also in Southern Economic Journal) looked at how per capita income was affected by work stoppages in the National Football League and Major League Baseball over a nearly three - decade span.

IBISWorld analysts also discuss how external factors such as Global per capita income and GDP of the BRIC nations in the Global Commercial Aircraft Manufacturing industry impact industry performance..

The rise in disposable per capita income has also been weaker, inching up just 0.6 percent annually in the last five years, compared with almost 2 percent from 1993 to 2008.

Indeed, among Canada's 16 peer countries, the U.S. has the second - highest level of income per capita but also the highest rates of poverty and homicides and the lowest life expectancy.

«If a specific market welcomes a relatively large share of wealthy immigrants, their arrival creates a new source of demand that not only stimulates demand for housing, but can also raise house prices significantly without any changes to personal disposable income per capita.»

Also, Catalonia has a significantly higher per capita income than Spain; it may be regarded as subsidising the rest of Spain, and might be financially better off if it became independent.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

The association also says the bill's new formula for the federal government's share of Medicaid — known as the «per capita cap» — would end Medicaid as an open - ended entitlement and impose limits on payments to hospitals for low - income patients.

Of more importance is the growth of the ratio of GDP to population (GDP per capita), which is also called per capita income.

The study also examines the role that socio - demographic status — a combination of per capita income, population age, fertility rates, and years of schooling — plays in determining health loss.

Per capita median income (in inflation - adjusted dollars) has also risen — by nearly 23 percent between 1974 and 2013.

[11] The Education Finance Incentive Grants also take into account the amount of state revenue dedicated to education relative to per capita income, as well as per - pupil spending and the percentage of students in poverty.

Mr. Vedder also found a 23 % higher rate of per capita income growth in right - to - work states.

Wolf also said that Russia has double the per capita income of China — $ 20,000 compared to $ 11,000 — and India is at about $ 6,000.

-- Higher demand also (via increased consumption & waste *) due to rising global per capita incomes — basically this is an emerging / frontier markets growth story

For example, there is growing evidence that factors like low per capita incomes, economic contraction, and inconsistent state institutions are associated with the incidence of civil wars, and also seem to be sensitive to climate change.

They have also worked on population projections as a function of per capita income, and on impacts of biofuels on agriculture and hunger.

Connection costs were also reduced from 846 percent of income per capita in 2013/14 to 187 percent in 2015/16.

«They (industrialised nations) also have high per capita incomes which gives them the highest capacity to bear the burden.

SRES scenarios also assume convergence of national per capita incomes, which is contrary to historical tendencies for income gaps between the rich and the poor to increase.

It has also not been done because it is politically unpopular with members of Congress from states that have a lower per capita income whose support would be necessary to pass such a tax.

It also has the highest per capita income out of any state in the country.

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

As described by Mihalopoulos and Chatterton, 14 the WHO on Macroeconomics and Health has suggested that a general cost - effectiveness criterion should be that if the cost of a disability - adjusted life year (DALY) does not exceed the average income per capita in a given country, the treatment can be considered very cost - effective.35 In 2013, the average annual income in Sweden was approximately US$ 42 500,36 meaning that also when using the WHO's criterion, the findings of this study indicate that ICBT is cost - effective.

The West also is home to some of the highest growth in per capita income.

That's partly because Florida is poorer by pretty much every measure than New York, but it's also because GDP measures production, not income — and Florida's many retirees tend to drag that down on a per capita basis.