I use a model of hierarchy to explore how income has been redistributed within US firms.

Blair Fix

Download: PDF | EPUB  If an unmarked package arrived at your door, how would you figure out what was inside? The catch is that you cannot open it.  As a social scientist, I deal with this ‘black-box’ problem all the time. I (metaphorically) watch people go to work at firms. And I see them come home with income. Then I try to picture the ‘machine’ that gave people money.

Firming Up Hierarchy

Does hierarchy mediate the growth of top incomes?

Download PDF Abstract   Although the determinants of income are complex, the results are surprisingly uniform. To a first approximation, top incomes follow a power-law distribution, and the redistribution of income corresponds to a change in the power-law exponent. Given the messiness of the struggle for resources, why is the outcome so simple?

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Firming Up Hierarchy

Redistributing Income Through Hierarchy