Neoliberal Redistributive Policy: The U.S. Net Social Wage in the 21st Century

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

Appendix A. Histogram of the (A) coefficient of variation (CV) and (B) range of log-transformed leaf life span (LLS) for local data sets within GLOPNET.

Histogram of the (A) coefficient of variation (CV) and (B) range of log-transformed leaf life span (LLS) for local data sets within GLOPNET

Appendix B. Bivariate relationships for GLOPNET data sets with N > 25 for which leaf life-span data are available.

Bivariate relationships for GLOPNET data sets with N > 25 for which leaf life-span data are available

Appendix B. Correlation between environmental variables and abundance-weighted mean plot value for plant functional traits.

Correlation between environmental variables and abundance-weighted mean plot value for plant functional traits

Appendix D. Additional plots of the relationships between environmental variables and traits.

Additional plots of the relationships between environmental variables and traits

Appendix C. Principal components analysis of environmental variables.

Principal components analysis of environmental variables

Appendix A. Covariance stucture of leaf, stem, and root traits for 54 woody species.

Covariance stucture of leaf, stem, and root traits for 54 woody species

Appendix B. Convex hull volumes calculated using trait subsets and 1og and global scaling.

Convex hull volumes calculated using trait subsets and 1og and global scaling

Land plant taxonomic lookup table

This dataset is a stable version (version 1.0.1) of the dataset contained in the taxonlookup R package (see https://github.com/traitecoevo/taxonlookup for the most recent version). It contains a taxonomic reference table for 16,913 genera of land plants along with the number of recognized species in each genus

Appendix D. Two-dimensional convex hulls containing two representative communities shown relative to the Jasper Ridge pool of 54 woody species.

Two-dimensional convex hulls containing two representative communities shown relative to the Jasper Ridge pool of 54 woody species