Adam Aboobaker
@adamaboobaker.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Development Economics at the University of Manchester researching growth, structural transformation, and class conflict.
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/
May 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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/
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/
May 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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/
ver the cycle between employment rates and the college/non-college relative wage in the US 3/
May 8, 2025 at 9:59 AM
ver the cycle between employment rates and the college/non-college relative wage in the US 3/
US data demonstrates a clockwise Goodwin pattern of unemployment and the wage share, reflecting shifting distribution along one dimension over the cycle 2/
May 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
US data demonstrates a clockwise Goodwin pattern of unemployment and the wage share, reflecting shifting distribution along one dimension over the cycle 2/