Richard Florida
by Richard Florida
Thu Aug 30th 2007 at 10:24am EDT

Inequality and Productivity

Vespa. The new S. Born to be square.

Does the growing disparity in productivity rates of firms play a role in growing inequality? This study says yes (pointer via Tyler Cowen). Charlotta Mellander and I have been studying the disjuncture between wages and income and their relation to human capital levels and creative occupations in our work on Sweden and the United States. This adds a new wrinkle to that conversation.

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