Bowles, Samuel; Jayadev, Arjun - Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst - 2004
units using the concept of guard labor, finding it to be a significant and growing fraction of the U.S. labor force. We also … document substantial cross national differences in the extent of guard labor and the strong statistical association between the … extent of income inequality and the fraction of the labor force that is constituted by guard labor. We close with some …