In this paper we analyse the effects of financialisation on income distribution, before and after the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession. The focus is on functional income distribution and thus on the relationship between financialisation and the wage share or the gross profit share....

Since the early 1980s, financialisation has become an increasingly important trend in developed capitalist countries, with different beginnings, speed and intensities in different countries. Rising inequality has been a major feature of this trend. Shares of wages in national income have...

In dieser Studie werden längerfristige Tendenzen im Zusammenspiel von Finanzsystem und realwirtschaftlicher Entwicklung in den USA und in Deutschland diskutiert. Mit dem Schlagwort der "Finanzialisierung" wird häufig ein allgemeiner Bedeutungsgewinn des Finanzsektors einer Volkswirtschaft...

Since the early 1980s, financialisation has become an increasingly important trend in developed capitalist countries, with different beginnings, speed and intensities in different countries. Rising inequality has been a major feature of this trend. Shares of wages in national income have...

In this paper we analyse the effects of financialisation on income distribution, before and after the Great Financial Crisis and the Great Recession. The focus is on functional income distribution and thus on the relationship between financialisation and the wage share or the gross profit share....