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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010627844
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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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...
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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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Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since financial markets are incomplete, imperfect, and economic agents' access to them is often...
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Distributional consequences typically receive limited attention in economic models that analyze the effects of monetary and financial sector policies. These consequences deserve more attention since financial markets are incomplete, imperfect, and economic agents' access to them is often...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885185
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …
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are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …
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