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income

Also known as merit, earning

Income is the consumption and saving opportunity gained by an entity within a specified timeframe, which is generally expressed in monetary terms. Income is difficult to define conceptually and the definition may be different across fields. For example, a person's income in an economic sense may be different from their income as defined by law.

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Income is the money or resources that a person or organization gains during a specific time period, which they can then spend or save. It's an important concept because it determines how much people can consume and save, though its exact meaning can vary depending on whether you're looking at it from an economic perspective or a legal one.

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Within Vinony's link graph, income is referenced by 751 other articles, and connects out to net international investment position, developed country and developing country.

It is catalogued under the topic Income.

Its subject is documented across 66 Wikipedia language editions.

Research

300,324 papers

Income and cigarette price responsiveness: evidence from Vietnam.Tobacco control · 2022Nguyen A, Nguyen HTDOI: 10.1136/tc-2022-057584
Income trajectories of families raising a child with a neurodisability.Disability and rehabilitation · 2022Rothwell DW, Lach LM, Kohen DE et al.DOI: 10.1080/09638288.2020.1811782
Income inequality in the developing world.ReviewScience (New York, N.Y.) · 2014Ravallion MDOI: 10.1126/science.1251875
Population health in an era of rising income inequality: USA, 1980-2015.ReviewLancet (London, England) · 2017Bor J, Cohen GH, Galea SDOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30571-8
Growing Income-Based Inequalities in Old-Age Life Expectancy in Sweden, 2006-2015.Demography · 2021Fors S, Wastesson JW, Morin LDOI: 10.1215/00703370-9456514
Boosting family income to promote child development.ReviewThe Future of children · 2014Duncan GJ, Magnuson K, Votruba-Drzal EDOI: 10.1353/foc.2014.0008
Income Volatility and Parenting Styles During Hard Times.Demography · 2025Mari GDOI: 10.1215/00703370-11861157
Income gap between male and female psychiatric nurses in China: A national survey.International nursing review · 2024Gu J, Cheng Y, Gu M et al.DOI: 10.1111/inr.12996

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Subclass of: resource

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topic's main category: Category:Income
Commons category: Income
facet of: wealth
different from: revenue

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Encyclopedic overview

22 sections

Contents

Economic definitions
Full and Haig–Simons income
Factor income
Legal definitions
Definitions under the Internal Revenue Code
Definition under US Case law
Accounting definitions
"Nonincome"
Debt
Psychic income
Income growth
Factors contributing to higher income
Income inequality
National Income
Basic income
Universal Basic Income
Income in philosophy and ethics
Income and health
History
See also
References
Further reading

An extremely important definition of income is Haig–Simons income, which defines income as Consumption + Change in net worth and is widely used in economics.

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