Why the Surge in Income Inequality?

2017/01/01 by Lane Kenworthy · 1 citation
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Social Sciences · #Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism #Social Policy and Reform Studies #Income, Poverty, and Inequality

paper · doi:10.1177/0094306116681789

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Abstract

Income inequality is more severe in the United States than in any other affluent longstanding-democratic country, and it has increased sharply in the past generation.The rise in inequality is mainly a story of growing separation between households in the top 1 percent and those in the ''bottom'' 99 percent.Income inequality within the Inequality: What Can Be Done? by

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• The Rise of the Super-Rich

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