Search Results - subject:"Income distribution"

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

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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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Varieties of capitalism and growth regimes : the role of income distribution

Behringer, Jan; Treeck, Till van - 2018

economy to analyse the macroeconomic implications of changes in income distribution. In the decades before the financial … income distribution in explaining the emergence of global imbalances. We argue that strongly rising top income shares … current account imbalances both directly and, more importantly, indirectly through its effects on income distribution. We test …

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The minimum wage and income distribution in Brazil from the 2000s

Saboia, João; Hallak Neto, João - In: Economia e sociedade : revista do Instituto de Economia … 27 (2018) 1, pp. 265-285

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

Fix, Blair - 2019

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

Fix, Blair - 2019

This paper investigates a new approach to understanding personal and functional income distribution. I propose that …

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Do economic recessions "squeeze the middle-class"?

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-i-Font, Joan - 2019 - This version: January 2019

We examine whether economic downturns reshape the distribution of population income giving rise to a "middle-class squeeze." We test this hypothesis using alternative definitions of middle-class, such as income-based measures from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and perceived measures from...

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