Personal income inequality and aggregate demand

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 491-505

  Carvalho, Laura ^a   Rezai, Armon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

Author keywords

Demand regimes; Income inequality; Neo kaleckian model; Personal and functional income distribution

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; MACROECONOMICS; MODELING; WAGE;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84952844397     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/beu085     Document Type: Article

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