scholarly journals Class structure and income inequality in transitional China

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Transitional China

scholarly journals The Precariat Class Structure and Income Inequality among US Workers: 1980–2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 447-469
Author(s):  
Joshua Greenstein
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Us ◽  
Part Time ◽  
And Gender

I apply the precariat class schema developed by Standing to the US workforce to illustrate an increased polarization between those who do and do not have quality jobs from 1980 to 2018. I use a decomposition of inequality to show that the precariat class structure explains a substantial and growing portion of income inequality. The precariat is typified by unstable, short-term, part-time, and benefit-free jobs. I find that that the precariat make up a large and growing share of the US workforce, while the “old” working class shrank precipitously. I also show that the demographics of the precariat and the old working class are substantially different in terms of race and gender.

Credit Market Depth and Income Inequality in Vietnam: A Panel-Data Analysis

2016 ◽  
pp. 5-18
Author(s):  
Hoi Le Quoc ◽  
Hoi Chu Minh
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Inflection Point ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Credit Market ◽  
Method Of Moment ◽  
Market Depth ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moment

Financial development could exert various effects on income distribution of a country. By employing Generalized Method of Moment, this paper aims at examining the impacts of credit market depth, one of most used financial development barometers, on income inequality in Vietnam. The empirical findings show that expanding credit market in the country could lead to higher income inequality. We have not found evidence that supports the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped relation ever introduced by Greenwood and Jovanovich, although this hypothesis may still hold in a sense that Vietnam has not reached to the inflection point to generate such a curve alike.

Scheming

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Seán Damer
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Housing Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Class Structure ◽  
Local Council ◽  
Housing Scheme ◽  
Post War ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Voice ◽  
House Building

This book seeks to explain how the Corporation of Glasgow, in its large-scale council house-building programme in the inter- and post-war years, came to reproduce a hierarchical Victorian class structure. The three tiers of housing scheme which it constructed – Ordinary, Intermediate, and Slum-Clearance – effectively signified First, Second and Third Class. This came about because the Corporation uncritically reproduced the offensive and patriarchal attitudes of the Victorian bourgeoisie towards the working-class. The book shows how this worked out on the ground in Glasgow, and describes the attitudes of both authoritarian housing officials, and council tenants. This is the first time the voice of Glasgow’s council tenants has been heard. The conclusion is that local council housing policy was driven by unapologetic considerations of social class.

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