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-sharing scheme would not cause any negative macroeconomic consequences. Instead, a higher accumulation of external debt … directly to the central bank provides more economic security than external debt finance. …
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income share. We revisit and extend previous empirical research on democratic political institutions and the labor share …
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This paper examines dynamic measures of growth inclusiveness derived from growth incidence curves. These curves help identify the extent to which each decile of households benefits from growth. The paper discusses the main features of growth incidence curves, their design, computation, data...
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Changes in the labor share of national income affect inequality (Piketty 2014). This paper aims at investigating the …, contributing to the fast rises in income inequality in the PRC. However, the employment proportion of state-owned enterprises seems … to have played a role in offsetting this negative effect, helping contain inequality. In recent years, both effects have …
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inequality are scarce. This paper estimates the impact of aging on inequality via the perspective of labor income share, based on … income inequality, (ii) this positive impact is because aging leads to a lower share of labor income, and (iii) more …
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been trending downward in the last three decades. This decline must have contributed to rising inequality as labor income … is more evenly distributed than capital income. This study contributes to the literature on income inequality by …
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The constancy of the elasticity of factor substitution (σ) makes its role as a driver of the labor income share exogenous. The constant elasticity of substitution (CES) (Arrow et al., 1961) production function has predominantly been used to support this causal relationship. This paper argues...
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There are two fundamental reasons why factor shares have traditionally been overlooked in the economic literature. First, because of their nature, factor shares are conceptually difficult to define and measure. Second, they have for a long time been perceived as constant across time and space....
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We investigate the causes of the decline in the labor share, exploring the effect of technology vis-à-vis the role of market regulations, namely employment protection legislation, product market regulation, and intellectual property rights (IPR) protection. Our results show that, in the long...
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to expand the standard drivers of labor shares - technological advance, trade, institutions, and policies - by …
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