Household Debt, the Labor Share, and Earnings Inequality
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Keywords
Labor share; Household indebtedness; Reservation wage;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- E27 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DGE-2025-05-19 (Dynamic General Equilibrium)
- NEP-LMA-2025-05-19 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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