found that inequality is positively associated with polarization and has an inverse‐U relationship with fractionalization … heterogeneity on the one hand and measures of inequality and redistribution on the other, using state‐level US data. Design …/methodology/approach – The relationship between ethnic/religious heterogeneity and inequality/redistribution is estimated, first, with ordinary …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse the challenges in undertaking occupational pay comparisons and why … different outcomes – occupational pay comparisons require the identification of an appropriate comparator and appropriate … importance of, and challenges in undertaking, occupational pay comparisons.  …

Jarvis (2009) argues that ideological polarization in California’s state legislature creates unique problems for the … state because of the interaction between polarization and the requirement that the budget pass with a 2/3 supermajority … order to reduce polarization. However, that is the wrong solution. Increasing the number of competitive districts would have …

to the nature of the state's finances, partisan polarization in the legislature interacts with many of these to produce … polarization or possibly even provide an occasional supermajority. While districts are not necessarily the primary cause of …

Over the past 50 years, partisan polarization—the ideological distance between the typical Democratic and the average … Republican legislator—has widened in California. This article asks whether growing polarization has led to increasing legislative … legislative party polarization exerts no direct effect, but that higher levels of polarization magnify the impact of divided …

with the literature, we find a noticeable increase of wage inequality between 1999 and 2006. The decomposition results show … that the changes in personal characteristics explain some of the increase in wage inequality whereas the changes in task … assignments strongly work towards reducing wage inequality. The coefficient effect for personal characteristics works towards an …

’s political polarization, they report that xenophobia continues to rise and has been worsened by the impact of the pandemic.  …