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Has the income share of the middle and upper-middle been stable over time, or is its current homogeneity across the world the outcome of a process of convergence? The 'Palma Ratio'...
Palma, José Gabriel - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2014
In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini … article has evolved to become a further attempt at contributing to the literature on inequality and the statistics to measure … it. As in my 2011 paper, in this one I also conclude that if we want to understand why inequality is so unequal across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010949350
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The dynamics of personal income distribution and inequality in the United States
Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In … our framework, inequality is an emergent property of a theoretical model we develop for the dynamics of individual incomes … predict the dynamics of personal incomes for every single person in the working-age population in the USA between 1930 and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259180
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Polarization and the decline of the middle class: Canada and the U.S.
Foster, James; Wolfson, Michael - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 8 (2010) 2, pp. 247-273
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596845
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Identifying Constraints to Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP and Inequality: A Structural Framework for Policy
Dabla-Norris, Era; Ji, Yan; Townsend, Robert; Unsal, D. … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2015
combination, on GDP and inequality. We focus on three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by the size of … inclusion, GDP, inequality, and the distribution of gains and losses. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163128
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Distributional consequences of labor-demand shocks: the 2008–2009 recession in Germany
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - In: International Tax and Public Finance 19 (2012) 1, pp. 118-138
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010865725
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Globalization and Income Inequality; A European Perspective
Harjes, Thomas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
of income distributions also suggest that inequality has increased in most industrialized countries, this development was … and technological change may not be major drivers of inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005769241
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Do Unions Increase Labor’s Shares? Evidence from US Industry-Level Data
Zuleta, Hernando; Young, Andrew T. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2011
We explore the relationship between union density and labor’s shares using panel data on 35 industries, spanning the entire US economy, for the years 1983 through 2005. For the full sample, a standard deviation increase in union density (membership or coverage rates) is associated with an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010793609
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Distributional Consequences of Labor-demand Shocks: The 2008-09 Recession in Germany
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - CESifo - 2011
The distributional consequences of the recent economic crisis are still broadly unknown. While it is possible to speculate which groups are likely to be hardest-hit, detailed distributional studies are still largely backward-looking due to a lack of real-time microdata. This paper studies the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008914277
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Output and Unemployment Dynamics During the Great Recession; A Panel Unobserved Components Analysis
Vitek, Francis - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper analyzes the sources of output and unemployment dynamics in the world economy during the Great Recession. This analysis is based on a panel unobserved components model of the world economy, disaggregated into its fifteen largest national economies. We find that excess supply pressure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646428
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Distributional Consequences of Labor Demand Adjustments to a Downturn: A Model-based Approach with Application to Germany 2008-09
Bargain, Olivier; Immervoll, Herwig; Peichl, Andreas; … - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2010
inequality. We focus on two alternative scenarios of the labor demand adjustment process, one based on reductions in hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677948