Income differences widened in Finland in 2017, says Statistics Finland

Paavo Arhinmäki, a former chairperson of the Left Alliance, has drawn attention to the fact that differences in the so-called factor income were wider than ever before in Finland in 2017. (Credit: Vesa Moilanen – Lehtikuva) Statistics Finland has reported that real income increased for households in every income decile in Finland in 2017. The increases, however, were noticeably greater for the highest-income households than for low- and middle-income households, resulting in a widening of incom...