The ‘Goodwin pattern’ — an anti-clockwise rotation in real activity × wage share space recurring at intervals that correspond roughly to the duration of business cycles is enduring feature high-frequency dynamics capitalist economies. It well known centre or focus this shifts over time. More recently, however, Goodwin pattern seems have broken down, no longer increasing as economy improves cour...

Abstract: Increasing returns to schooling and rising inequality are well documented for developed countries and for some developing countries. The growing demand for skills is associated with recent technological developments. It is argued that computers in the workplace represent one manifestation of these changes. Research in the United States and developed countries documents a premium for c...

When studying income differences and income distribution the self-employed are often excluded. There are good reasons for this, for example that incomes from self-employment are not reported to the same extent as income from being an employee. On the other hand it is a problem to exclude the self-employed if the group is large, the share who are self-employed differs between groups, and the ave...

This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in United States. To isolate exogenous changes health, econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation cardiovascular disease mortality across states over time. Based data for white population, results show that there is a causal link between and per person, they provide novel evidence dyn...