Search Results - subject:"Income distribution"

Still the lands of equality? : on the heterogeneity of individual factor income shares in the Nordic

Iacono, Roberto; Palagi, Elisa - 2020

As far as standard measures of income inequality are concerned, the Nordic countries rank among the most equal economies in the world. This paper studies whether and how this picture changes when the focus is on inequality of income composition, meaning the heterogeneity in individuals’ factor...

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Still the lands of equality? : on the heterogeneity of individual factor income shares in the Nordics

Iacono, Roberto; Palagi, Elisa - 2020

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012224255

Patterns of regional income inequality in Egypt : implications for sustainable development goal 10

Bournakis, Ioannis; Said, Mona; Savoia, Antonio; … - 2020

Income distribution is seen as instrumental to human development and to a number of development outcomes through a …-2015 and finds evidence of unconditional convergence in income distribution across Egyptian Governorates. This result implies …

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How the rich are different : hierarchical power as the basis of income and class

Fix, Blair - 2019

What makes the rich different? Are they more productive, as mainstream economists claim? I offer another explanation. What makes the rich different, I propose, is hierarchical power. The rich command hierarchies. The poor do not. It is this greater control over subordinates, I hypothesize, that...

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Revisiting debt-led and export-led growth models: a sectoral balances approach

Behringer, Jan; Treeck, Till van - 2018

primarily on the functional income distribution (wages versus profits), while ignoring personal income distribution (inequality … distribution and how income distribution and institutions interacted to generate financial imbalances in different sectors of the … States, we show how institutional differences can help explain why different countries developed different patterns of income …

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Revisiting debt-led and export-led growth models : a sectoral balances approach

Behringer, Jan; Treeck, Till van - 2018

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011914117

The growth of US top income inequality : a hierarchical redistribution hypothesis

Fix, Blair - 2018

; and (4) the "fattening" of the entire income distribution tail. This result supports the hierarchical redistribution …

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Capitalist income and hierarchical power : a gradient hypothesis

Fix, Blair - 2018

the study of income distribution. …

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An economic model of the distribution of family income in Canada

Beach, Charles M.; Worswick, Aidan - 2019

This paper develops an economic model of the distribution of income based on shares of family incomes in Canada over 1976-2016. Major determinants of quintile and decile shares of total and market income include male and female participation rates, unemployment rate, inflation rate, GDP growth...

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Change and convergence of income distributions in European Union during 2007-2014

Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor; Kvedaras, Virmantas - 2019

Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena prevalent in income distributions. Relying on quantile functions and the adapted statistical framework suggested by Székely and Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and...

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