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The Shrinking American Middle Class : The Social and Cultural Implications of Growing Inequality

Davey, Joseph Dillon - 2012

The United States lost one third of its factory jobs in the past decade as jobs were outsourced offshore, mostly to Asia. Jobs that require a college degree are next to go. China will award six times as many degrees this year as they did ten years ago and any job that can be digitized will be...

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Is Globalisation Doomed? : The Economic and Political Threats to the Future of Globalisation

Verde, Antimo - 2017

This book questions whether it is possible for globalization to be reversed and constructs a model for anticipating this potential development in future years. The first part focuses on the preliminary problems of globalization, constructing a model (or index) of its various phases of evolution....

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Inequality, Poverty and Well-being

McGillivray, Mark (ed.) - 2006

This book examines inequality, poverty and well-being concepts and corresponding empirical measures. Attempting to push future research in new and important directions, the book has a strong analytical orientation, consisting of a mix of conceptual and empirical analyses that constitute new and...

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A Study into Financial Globalization, Economic Growth and (In)Equality

Čaušević, Fikret - 2017

measurement of the economic performance of key countries for which data is available in the World Bank database, including G-10 …: Concluding remarks: financial openness, economic growth and (in)equalities in the world …

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A Violent World : Modern Threats to Economic Stability

Lorenzi, Jean-Hervé - 2016

peaceful world without conflict. In this book, the authors explore how six major constraints are set to fix the trajectory of … one end of the world to the other, and the limitless financialization of the economy. They suggest that like seismic … Decades of a Surplus of Savings -- The World is Changing, Savings decrease -- The World is Changing, Investment incincreases …

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Einkommensverteilung, Wachstum und Krisenentstehung : Geschichte, Theorien und empirische Evidenz

Trappl, Stefan - 2018

Dieses Buch betrachtet die Entwicklung der funktionalen und personellen Einkommensverteilung und deren Verortung im … funktionalen und zur personellen Einkommensverteilung dargestellt. Ansätze der Mainstream-Ökonomie werden heterodoxen Ansätzen … betrachtet, konkret wird die Entwicklung der funktionalen bzw. personellen Einkommensverteilung in insgesamt 14 Ländern zwischen …

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Restoring the Middle Class through Wage Policy : Arguments for a Minimum Wage

Levin-Waldman, Oren M. - 2018

This book delivers a fresh and fascinating perspective on the issue of the minimum wage. While most discussions of the minimum wage place it at the center of a debate between those who oppose such a policy and argue it leads to greater unemployment, and those who favor it and argue it improves...

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Economic Growth and the Middle Class in an Economy in Transition : The Case of Russia

Nissanov, Zoya - 2017

This book studies the evolution of the middle class in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Using data from the RLMS (Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey), the volume covers the period of transition (1991-2008) during which many fundamental economic reforms were implemented. The first...

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Has Latin American Inequality Changed Direction? : Looking Over the Long Run

Bértola, Luis (ed.); Williamson, Jeffrey G. (ed.) - 2017

INTRODUCTION -- Chapter1. Long-run inequality trends and cycles and the recent inequality downturn in Latin America -- PART I. LONG-RUN TRENDS -- Chapter 2. Functional Inequality in Latin America: News from the Twentieth Century -- Chapter 3. The Political Economy of Income Inequality in Chile...

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Growth, Inequality and Social Development in India : Is Inclusive Growth Possible?

Nagaraj, Rayaprolu (ed.) - 2012

With six essays exploring different aspects of economic growth, poverty, inequality and social security, this book offers a critical perspective on India's development experience since independence. Incisive and empirically rich, the book opens up new vistas in development discourse and informs...

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