Personal Income and Hierarchical Power

Blair Fix

Journal of Economic Issues, 2019, vol. 53, issue 4, 928-945

Abstract: This article examines the relation between personal income and hierarchical power. In the context of a firm hierarchy, I define hierarchical power as the number of subordinates under an individual’s control. Using the available case-study evidence, I find that relative income within firms scales strongly with hierarchical power. I also find that hierarchical power affects income more strongly than any other factor for which data is available. I conclude that this is preliminary evidence for a hierarchical-power theory of personal income distribution.Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00213624.2019.1657746.

Date: 2019
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