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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

The Growth and Distribution research group at the GDI is hosting a conference on the future of development economics at the end of the year. Please consider submitting an abstract/paper (further details below). Keynotes by Ravi Kanbur and Anandi Mani. blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/call-for-pap...

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Call for Papers: Conference on the Future of Development Economics - Global Development Institute Blog

December 11-12, 2025, University of Manchester, UK. With support from The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute Journal of Development Studies Conference Fund Keynote speakers: Ravi ...

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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A new paper co-authored with Peter Skott. We study the recent compression of wage inequality in the US, with a critical outlook on ‘running the economy hot’ and Bidenomics.

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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

A new paper co-authored with Peter Skott. We study the recent compression of wage inequality in the US, with a critical outlook on ‘running the economy hot’ and Bidenomics.

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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Peter Skott and I have a new paper exploring cyclical patterns of employment, wage inequality and the functional distribution of income postkeynesian.net/media/workin... Main messages: 1/

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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Running the economy hot may be neither necessary nor sufficient, and in fact may be counterproductive to Left or progressive programmes. We might do better to focus our energies on decommodification and a wider set of actions that challenge the power of capital 6/

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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Punchlines: inequality is multidimensional; using tight labour markets alone to reduce inequality may backfire due to contrasting effects along multiple dimensions. We observe a positive correlation between the wage share and wage inequality empirically and in our simulation 5/

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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Multiple mechanisms explain these patterns: 1) differential rates of labour hoarding, 2) induced mismatch, 3) efficiency wage effects. We analyse the mechanisms in a static model and a simulation model of endogenous cycles 4/

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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

ver the cycle between employment rates and the college/non-college relative wage in the US 3/

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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

US data demonstrates a clockwise Goodwin pattern of unemployment and the wage share, reflecting shifting distribution along one dimension over the cycle 2/

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Adam Aboobaker @adamaboobaker.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Peter Skott and I have a new paper exploring cyclical patterns of employment, wage inequality and the functional distribution of income postkeynesian.net/media/workin... Main messages: 1/

postkeynesian.net

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