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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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personellen Einkommensverteilung auf nationale Leistungsbilanzsalden zu analysieren. Im Modell hat jedes Land einen Haushalts- und … Einkommensverteilung und dem institutionellen Umfeld erklärt werden kann. Hingegen wird die verhältnismäßige schwache Binnennachfrage in … Deutschland und China seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre maßgeblich durch Verschiebungen in der funktionalen Einkommensverteilung zu …
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, saving, and debt for the 1920s by applying a non-standard theory of consumption, the relative income hypothesis, to the … financial and macroeconomic instability, in the period leading to the Great Depression. …-Standard Theorie des Haushaltskonsums, die Relative Einkommenshypothese, zurück. Es wird argumentiert, dass steigende …
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Our paper picks up the current controversial debate about increasing (income) inequality due to recent monetary policy measures in major advanced economies. We use a VAR framework identified with sign restrictions to figure out how income in- equality related measures react to monetary policy...
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse. Neither of these two issues can be fully understood in isolation, and policies aiming at one issue will increasingly have to consider interactions with the other. We synthesize...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013322002
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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The effects of technological change on wage inequality are usually studied under the assumption of exogenous supplies of skilled and unskilled workers. Moreover, in these studies there is no distinction between the stock (number of workers) and the flow (hours of work) dimension of labour...
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In this paper, we introduce a twofold role for the public sector in the Goodwin (1967) model of the growth cycle. The government collects income taxes in order to: (a) invest in infrastructure capital, which directly affects the production possibilities of the economy; (b) finance publicly...
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We incorporate the division of income between capital and labor into analysis on the relationship between inequality and growth. Using historical data, we document that changes in the top 1 % income shares are positively associated with subsequent growth of per capita GDP when the capital share...
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