The Effect of Labor's Bargaining Power on Wealth Inequality in the UK,USA, And France |
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Authors: | Ben Tippet Özlem Onaran Rafael Wildauer |
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Institution: | Department of Accounting Finance and Economics, University of Greenwich |
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Abstract: | This paper analyses the determinants of wealth inequality, measured as the share of wealth owned by the top 1 percent wealthiest individuals. We find that labor's bargaining power is a significant and important determinant of top wealth shares. Using a semi-structural vector autoregression (SVAR) model for the period 1970–2019, we estimate that shocks to labor's bargaining power explain 32 percent, 8 percent and 32 percent of the variation around the long-term trend in wealth inequality in the UK, USA and France, respectively. |
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Keywords: | wealth inequality income inequality labor's bargaining power technological change globalization |
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