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The Meritocratic Elite vs. the Common Man: Income Inequality in the Affluent OECD Countries

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  • Kosta Josifidis
  • Novica Supic

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Our goal is to highlight the relationship between vested interests of the meritocratic elite and the deteriorating situation of the common man. We provide an example of rising income inequality in selected OECD countries over the past thirty years. Income inequality is growing, despite the increase in labor productivity based on technological progress, which we prove by using robust panel regression models. Our findings could be explained by the effect of “extreme meritocracy” that describes a situation in which wages for “the working rich” are growing faster than their productivity, and creating wage stagnation for the middle-class workers.

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  • Kosta Josifidis & Novica Supic, 2017. "The Meritocratic Elite vs. the Common Man: Income Inequality in the Affluent OECD Countries," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 51(2), pages 431-439, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:jeciss:v:51:y:2017:i:2:p:431-439
    DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2017.1320928
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