Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/174427 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2017-18
Publisher: 
University of Massachusetts, Department of Economics, Amherst, MA
Abstract: 
In this paper, I examine the trends of fiscal transfers between the state and workers during 1959 - 2012 to understand the net impact of redistributive policy in the United States. This paper presents original net social wage data from and analysis based on the replication and extension of Shaikh and Tonak (2002). The paper investigates the appearance of a post-2001 variation in the net social wage data. The positive net social wage in the 21st century is the result of a combination of factors including the growth of income support, healthcare inflation, neoliberal tax reforms, and macroeconomic instability. Growing economic inequality does not appear to alter the results of the net social wage methodology.
Subjects: 
fiscal policy
net social wage
neoliberalism
social spending
taxation
JEL: 
H5
E62
E64
B5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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