The Extent to Which Income Is Unequally Distributed in a Population

question 82

Multiple Choice

The extent to which income is unequally distributed in a population is called the ________.

• A) income transfer
• B) wage gap
• C) income inequality
• D) wage differential
• E) income gradient

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