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and the unemployed – serves not to undermine but to boost the overall income share of capitalists. And as employment … growth decelerates, the income share of the Top 1% – which includes the capitalists as well as their protective power belt … unemployment and zero job growth when these very processes serve to boost their income-share-read-power? …
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After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear …
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The Scientist and the Church is a wide-ranging biography of research, showcasing Bichler and Nitzan’s attempts to break through the stifling dogmas of the academic church and chart a new scientific cosmology of capitalism. Central to the authors’ work is the notion that capital is not a...
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After the 1997 financial crisis, the neo-liberal restructuring of the Korean political economy accelerated dramatically. While there is a general consensus that the reform has had negative consequences for Korean society, heated debates continue over the culprits of the 1997 crisis and the...
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for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The … methodology is applied to Norway, for which rich historical data sources exist. Taking careful account of the definition of income …
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for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such tabular data …. Taking careful account of the definition of income and population and the availability of micro data starting in 1967, an …
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implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a … determinant of income and labor market outcomes in the arts. Arguably, the IT revolution has changed the demand for certain skills … markets. Third, we touch upon the rise of online contract labor in certain creative professions as a determinant of income …
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This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …
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In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going...
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