Prof. E. Hein and D. Detzer’s work was published in the Italian Economic Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2, July. The paper, entitled “Finance-Dominated Capitalism and Income Distribution: A Kaleckian Perspective on the Case of Germany“, is a result of the following Working Paper from work package 3:
Hein, E., Detzer, D.: Finance-dominated capitalism and income distribution: a Kaleckian perspective on the case of Germany, Working Paper Series No 62, September 2014
It investigates the long-run effects of financialisation on income distribution before the financial and economic crises for Germany, one of the major mercantilist export-led economies. The analysis builds on a Kaleckian approach towards the examination of the effects of financialisation on income distribution. It first shows that Germany saw a considerable re-distribution of income starting in the early 1980s, which accelerated in the early 2000s. Then the three main channels through which financialisation (and neo-liberalism) are supposed to have affected the labour income share, according to the Kaleckian approach, are examined, and evidence for the existence of each of these channels in Germany is provided.
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