How pronounced is the U-curve? Revisiting income inequality in the United States, 1917–60

VJ Geloso, P Magness, J Moore… - The Economic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Piketty and Saez found a pronounced U-curve pattern of American income inequality since
1917, displaying a precipitous decline during World War II to a level that would hold until …

The great overestimation: Tax data and inequality measurements in the United States, 1913–1943

V Geloso, P Magness - Economic Inquiry, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Historical measures of income inequality in the United States must grapple with the
challenge of data quality. We examine one such problem affecting the well‐known estimates …

Monopsony power in the United States: Evidence from the great depression

AC Holt - Explorations in Economic History, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper presents evidence that firms had labor market power during the early 1930s.
Using plant-level data from the Census of Manufactures between 1929 and 1935, I construct …

Monopsony Power During the Great Depression

A Holt - Available at SSRN 4305498, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper presents evidence that firms had labor market power during the early 1930s.
Using plant-level data from the Census of Manufactures between 1929 and 1935, I construct …

[PDF][PDF] Firm networks in the great depression

E Loualiche, C Vickers, NL Ziebarth - 2019 - terry.uga.edu
We develop a model of within-firm financing networks to examine how firms facing working
capital constraints channel resources in response to local shocks and then test this model in …