Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Politics of Inequality: Income Distribution and Corporate Restructuring in the Airline Industry, 1968-2005

博士论文研究：不平等的政治：航空业的收入分配和企业重组，1968-2005

• 批准号: 0827297
• 负责人: Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
• 金额: $ 0.75万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-15 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0827297&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Politics; Inequality

PI: Donald Tomaskovic-DeveyCo-PI: Dustin Avent-HoltDoctoral Dissertation Research: The Politics of Inequality: Income Distribution and Corporate Restructuring in the Airline Industry, 1968-20050827297This research project examines the restructuring of the airline industry to provide insight into the rise of income inequality. The examination will focus on a case of fundamental economic reorganization, the deregulation of the airline industry. Through the 1978 Airline Deregulation Act the airline industry was legislatively transformed from a highly regulated industry to one guided by open and unregulated competition. The research is guided by three interrelated questions. First, what were the causal mechanisms that led to the deregulation of the airline industry? Second, how did firms and other actors in the industry reconstruct the market institutions and social relations of the post-deregulation airline industry? Finally, how did the post-deregulation reorganization of the airline industry?s institutions and social relations affect the trajectory of profit and income inequality between and within airline firms? To answer these questions, the investigators will combine an historical analysis of the airline industry with firm-level income distribution data from 1968 to 2005. The historical analysis focuses on the mobilization and political arguments of central actors in and around the airline industry, coupled with a statistical analysis of firm-level wage and profit data from 1968 to 2005. The goal of the project is to explain how economic reorganization occurs and how it influences income inequality trends. Empirically, the project will examine the airline industry as an example of economic changes in the U.S. toward free-market policies and organization. Theoretically, the project will focus on recent changes in the organization of the economy to understand the growth in income inequality. As economic policy is now guided by the assumption that unregulated markets generate economic prosperity it is crucial to assess this claim broadly. Economic policy is often only evaluated in terms of macro-economic growth, yet the distribution of the benefits of growth is crucial to understand the full impact of free-market economic policy. By focusing on a prototypical case of the recent shift in economic policy towards unregulated markets this research will be able to assess the impacts of such economic reorganization on economic inequality, crucial to understanding individuals' current economic situation and overall life chances.

主要研究者：Donald Tomaskovic-DeveyCo-PI：Dustin Avent-HoltDoctoral Dissertation Research：The Politics of Inequality：Income Distribution and Corporate Restructuring in the Airline Industry，1968- 20050827297本研究项目探讨航空业的重组，以深入了解收入不平等的上升。 审查将集中在一个根本性的经济重组案例，即放松对航空业的管制。 通过1978年的《航空公司放松管制法》，航空业从一个高度管制的行业转变为一个以公开和不受管制的竞争为导向的行业。 本研究以三个相互关联的问题为指导。 首先，导致航空业放松管制的因果机制是什么？ 第二，在放松管制后的航空业中，企业和其他参与者是如何重建市场制度和社会关系的？ 最后，放松管制后的航空业如何重组？的制度和社会关系的影响轨迹的利润和收入不平等之间和航空公司内部？ 为了回答这些问题，研究人员将联合收割机结合航空业的历史分析和1968年至2005年的公司收入分配数据。 历史分析的重点是动员和围绕航空业的核心行动者的政治论点，再加上从1968年到2005年的公司层面的工资和利润数据的统计分析。 该项目的目标是解释经济重组是如何发生的，以及它如何影响收入不平等的趋势。 从经验上讲，该项目将研究航空业作为美国经济向自由市场政策和组织转变的一个例子。 从理论上讲，该项目将侧重于经济组织的最新变化，以了解收入不平等的增长。由于经济政策现在是以不受管制的市场产生经济繁荣的假设为指导的，因此广泛地评估这一主张至关重要。经济政策往往只从宏观经济增长的角度进行评估，但增长利益的分配对于理解自由市场经济政策的全面影响至关重要。 通过关注最近经济政策转向不受管制的市场的典型案例，这项研究将能够评估这种经济重组对经济不平等的影响，这对了解个人目前的经济状况和总体生活机会至关重要。