Wednesday, May 27, 2015

What's Really Driving Income Inequality - Bloomberg View

What's Really Driving Income Inequality - Bloomberg View



Consider Apple and McDonald’s. The Piketty perspective is that inequality rises because the top executives at both companies get much bigger raises than the rank-and-file. But the other possibility is that the average pay at Apple rises a lot relative to the average pay at McDonald’s, even as the wage gaps within each firm stay about the same.

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