Faktorer, der menes at påvirke økonomisk ulighed, omfatter i øvrigt:
* arbejdsmarkedsforhold<ref name="PR divided"/>
* [[globalisering]]<ref name="Meszaros1995" />
* teknologiske ændringer i produktionen<ref name="Meszaros1995">{{cite book|last=MÉSZÁROS|first=István|title=Beyond Capital|year=1995|publisher=Merlin Press|location=London|isbn=978-85-7559-068-3}}</ref>
* politiske reformer<ref name="PR divided"/>
* ændringer i skattesystemets progression<ref name=Piketty/>
* race-, køns- og anden diskriminering<ref name=UNRISD>{{cite web|title=Tackling Ethnic and Regional Inequalities|url=https://owlspace-ccm.rice.edu/access/content/group/HUMA-SOCI-280-001-F11/Course%20Readings/February%207/UNRISD%20CH.3%20total.pdf|work=Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Polics, and Politi|publisher=United Nations Research Institute for Social Development|access-date=31. januar 2014|archive-date=29. oktober 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195110/https://owlspace-ccm.rice.edu/access/content/group/HUMA-SOCI-280-001-F11/Course%20Readings/February%207/UNRISD%20CH.3%20total.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[nepotisme]]
* variationer i medfødte evner<ref name="RawlsJustice">{{cite book |last=Rawls |first=John |author-link=John Rawls |title=[[A Theory of Justice]] |year=2005 |publisher=Belknap Press of Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0674017726}}</ref>
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