Functional Income Distribution and Its Role in Explaining Inequality /

This paper is motivated by two parallel trends: the declining labor share of income and increasing inequality. Micro and macroeconomic data, covering up to 93 countries between 1970 and 2013, are used to assess whether the declining labor share of income has been a key factor driving growing inequal...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francese, Maura
Other Authors: Mulas-Granados, Carlos
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2015.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2015/244
Online Access:Full text available on IMF