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Neumeier, Florian - 2016

business background (CEO governors), focusing on income growth, unemployment, private investment, and income inequality … private capital stock, and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Income …

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Do businessmen make good governors?

Neumeier, Florian - 2015 - This version: 29 June 2015

business background (CEO governors), focusing on the growth rate of real personal income per capita, unemployment rate, and … annual income growth rate and a 0.6 percentage points lower unemployment rate than are the tenures of non-CEO governors. Also …

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Unemployment Shocks and Income Distribution : How Did the Nordic Countries Fare During Their Crises?

Smith, Nina; Jantti, Markus; Aaberge, Rolf; Wennemo, Tom; … - 2001

1990s when unemployment rose dramatically in all four countries. A standard measure of inequality - the Gini coefficient … hypotheses about the reasons for this stable income distribution. Our most straightforward hypothesis, that rising unemployment …

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Euroskepticism in the crisis : more mood than economy

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Wehner, Caroline - 2014

Before the Great Recession, rising income inequality within the European Union member states has been considered to be one driver for an increasing Euroskepticism. Using rich data on attitudes towards European integration from the Eurobarometer (EB) surveys, we revisit the issue by analyzing the...

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Income mobility in times of economic growth : the case of Viet Nam

Brand-Weiner, Ian; Francavilla, Francesca - 2015

This paper analyses income mobility in Viet Nam from 2004 to 2008. The concept of income mobility is important for developed and developing economies, especially for those, such as Viet Nam, witnessing a stable persistent economic growth and profound structural transformations. Income mobility...

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The potential costs and distributional effect of Covid-19 related unemployment in Ireland

Beirne, Keelan; Doorley, Karina; Regan, Mark; Roantree, … - 2020

. It finds that in the central 'medium' unemployment scenario of 600,000 job losses, around 400,000 families will see their … higher income families. Measures announced by the Government - notably the flat-rate Pandemic Unemployment Payment of €350 … because its current design is less generous to lower earners than the Pandemic Unemployment Payment they would receive if laid …

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Inequality Amid Income Stagnation : Italy Over the Last Quarter of a Century

Brandolini, Andrea - 2018

The paper analyses the evolution of inequality in Italy from 1989 to 2014, focusing on three business-cycle phases: the 1992 currency crisis, the moderate growth from 1993 to 2007, and the double-dip recession from 2008 to 2013. Data from the national accounts and the Bank of Italy's Survey on...

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Income shares, secular stagnation, and the long-run distribution of wealth

Petach, Luke; Tavani, Daniele - 2018

Four alarming stylized facts have characterized the recent economic history of the United States: (i) a fall in labor productivity; (ii) a fall in the labor share, (iii) an increase in the capital income ratio, and (iv) an increase in the wealth share owned by top income earners. In this paper,...

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Classical political economy and secular stagnation

Luzuriaga, Manuel Cruz; Tavani, Daniele - 2021

This paper presents a model of secular stagnation, income and wealth distribution, and employment in the Classical Political Economy tradition, that can be contrasted with the accounts by Piketty (2014) and Gordon (2015). In these explanations, an exogenous reduction in the growth rate g...

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Income Distribution and Macroeconomic Performance in the United States

Cole, Jeffrey - 2006

The factors underlying the rise in U.S. income inequality since the mid-1970s are examined. The results suggest that the trend increase in income inequality has not been related to macroeconomic developments, such as income growth or import penetration, but that the income distribution is...

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