- Latest from NZ Treasury. Income inequality is well down on 2008, across a variety of measures, both before and after housing costs. www.treasury.govt.nz/publications... File this one away for the next time you hear an assertion about 'rising' inequality.Dec 9, 2024 22:20
- Income inequality plateaued in the 1990s, then declined. www.wgtn.ac.nz/business/res... And remember that some of the increase in the 80s was just a measurement thing: fringe benefit tax meant execs stopped being paid in (unmeasured in income stats) company cars.