SOCIOL 103 Chapter Notes - Chapter n/a: Scale Invariance, Corporatism
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Countries vary a great deal in their levels and trends in inequality. Between firm inequalities are growing in most countries. Rising income inequalities have been identified as social, political, moral, and. Almost all research on earnings inequality rely on self-reported earnings from surveys of. Linked employer-employee data allows us to locate inequalities in the firms that produce macro-economical problems for high income nations individuals and households them. The organizational structure of production in most countries is shifting toward workplace focus on the quality of jobs level earnings polarization. Found primarily under private sector firms countries and time. Although the between firm component of inequality is rising in 8/11 countries. The us stands out as the highest inequality country. Sweden has the lowest job level inequality differences in country"s labor market protections. Rising inequality is treated as ubiquitous and almost inevitably increasing across high income capitalist nations. Stresses institutional similarities among capitalist countries and the centripetal forces of globalization.