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Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention : New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940
Sorensen, Todd - 2007
During the 1930s the federal government embarked upon an ambitious series of grant programs designed to counteract the Great Depression. Public works and relief programs combated unemployment by hiring workers and building social overhead capital while the Agricultural Adjustment Administration...
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Stalled Racial Progress and Japanese Trade in the 1970s and 1980s
Batistich, Mary Kate - 2019
Many of the positive economic trends coming out of the Civil Rights Era for black men stagnated or reversed during the late 1970s and early 1980s. These changes were concurrent with a rapid rise in import competition from Japan. We assess the impact of this trade shock on racial disparities...
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Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States
Gaggl, Paul - 2020
Electricity is a general purpose technology and the catalyst for the second industrial revolution. What was its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification with the length of higher-voltage electricity lines. Instrumenting for...
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Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US
Karanassou, Marika - 2013
disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …. In turn, had financialisation not increased after 2005, inequality would have decreased to its level in the early …
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What Determines the Capital Share Over the Long Run of History?
Bengtsson, Erik - 2020
This paper analyzes the determinants of the labor-capital split in national income for 20 countries since the late 1800s. Our main identification strategy focuses on unique historical quasi-experimental events: i) the introduction of universal suffrage, ii) close election wins of left-wing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835242
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Collective Bargaining Systems and Macroeconomic and Microeconomic Flexibility : The Quest for Appropriate Institutional Forms in Advanced Economies
Addison, John T. - 2021
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of the needs of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
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Wealth Inequality in Sweden : What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?
Lundberg, Jacob - 2016
This paper presents new estimates of wealth inequality in Sweden during 2000–2012, linking wealth register data up to … of the wealth tax stopped the collection of individual wealth statistics. We find that wealth inequality increased after … estimates may well approximate overall inequality levels and trends, they are highly sensitive to assumptions and the quality of …
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution ofMarket Income in Germany, 1992-2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient... …
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From Classes to Copulas : Wages, Capital, and Top Incomes
Aaberge, Rolf - 2018
Public debates about the rise in top income shares often focus on the growing dispersion in earnings and the soaring pay for top executives and financial-sector employees. But can the change in the marginal distribution of earnings on its own explain the rise in top income shares? Are top...
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Top Incomes in Canada : Evidence from the Census
Lemieux, Thomas - 2015
This paper looks at the evolution of incomes at the top of the distribution in Canada. Master files of the Canadian Census are used to study the composition of top income earners between 1981 and 2011. Our main finding is that, as in the United States, executives and individuals working in the...
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