The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...

The Elite Quality Index for 2023 (EQx2023) measures 'The Sustainable Value Creation of Nations' and is the fourth annual publication of the internationally comparative ranking of countries. The index aim is to provide a unique dataset for academic research, original insight on the human and...

Can nations be ranked on the quality of their elites? Elites are dominant coalitions possessing the strongest coordination capacity over a country's key resources. They run the highest impact business models, which can be value creating or value extracting. We aim to produce a political economy...

The US labour market has experienced a remarkable polarization in the 1980s and 1990s. Moreover, recent empirical work has documented a sharp increase in the wealth to income ratio in that period. Contemporary to these inequality trends, the US faced a fast technological catch-up as European...

The 2021 Elite Quality Index (EQx2021) is a global ranking of countries built on the notion of ‘elite quality’. Elite quality is a macro-level feature of the political economy that measures the value creation aggregate of all elite business models. Elites are dominant coalitions with the...

The Elite Quality Index for 2022 (EQx2022) is the third annual publication of the internationally comparative ranking of countries on ‘elite quality’. Its aim is to provide a unique dataset for academic research, original insight on the human and economic development trajectories of nations...