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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716531
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Outsourcing, offshoring, and productivity measurement in manufacturing
Houseman, Susan N. (contributor) - 2007 - Rev.
I discuss reasons why manufacturing productivity statistics should be interpreted with caution in light of the recent growth of domestic and foreign outsourcing and offshoring. First, outsourcing and offshoring are poorly measured in U.S. statistics, and poor measurement may impart a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003427043
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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
the role of ethnicity and ethnic identity for relative economic performance. -- Inequality ; income distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003688796
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On the way to the Great Depression : the demand regime of the US economy (1900-1929)
Borazan, Ahmad A - 2015
It has become commonplace to raise the analogy between the recent experience of the dynamics of income distribution and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343023
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Distributional consequences of capital accumulation, globalisation and financialisation in the US
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2013
functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and … disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … noughties. In the Great Recession years of tense socioeconomic conditions, looking at income distribution through the lens of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717716
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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by … immigration on the native income distribution. We then survey the evidence on this question for several countries, and conclude by … examining the impact of emigration on income distribution in the source country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010227178
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Reswitching and decreasing demand for capital in a model with a continuum of linear techniques
Fratini, Saverio M. - 2009
We consider a model of production with a continuum of linear techniques and examine the related choice of technique and shape of the demand for capital schedule. The primary conclusion regards the possibility of a decreasing demand for capital schedule combined with reswitching and reverse...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523966
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Public job-creation programs : the economic benefits of investing in social care? ; case studies in South Africa and the United States
Antonopoulos, Rania; Kim, Kijong - 2011
This paper demonstrates the strong impacts that public job creation in social care provisioning has on employment creation. Furthermore, it shows that mobilizing underutilized domestic labor resources and targeting them to bridge gaps in community-based services yield strong pro-poor income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126686
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Distributional consequences of capital accumulation, globalisation and financialisation in the US
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2012
functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and … disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … noughties. In the Great Recession years of tense socioeconomic conditions, looking at income distribution through the lens of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009562971
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Labour market institutions and income inequality
Checchi, Daniele (contributor);  … - 2008
The recent debate on trends in inequality in industrial countries has been marred by the lack of consensus about the relevant concept of inequality. Labour economists are concerned with inequality in earnings, macroeconomists with movements in the wage share, while policy-makers tend to focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003746641