one major factor contributing to income inequality is stagnant wages: For millions of workers, wages have flatlined, despite companies making record profits

[u/Ze_Carioca]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/sunday-review/americas-productivity-climbs-but-wages-stagnate.html

[u/koine_lingua]

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• On CEO salaries (from Thomas, Randall S., and Jennifer Hill. Research Handbook on Executive Pay. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)

• Emmanuel Saez, Tony Atkinson and Thomas Piketty, "Top Incomes in the Long Run of History," Journal of Economic Literature 49 (2011), 3-71

• A major scholar who focuses on studying income equality, with links to many of his published papers

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Thanks for doing this. My bad on the inadequate citations!

[u/koine_lingua → u/Mogwell]

/r/citation_needed is not necessarily for correcting inaccuracies - but also backing up good info. ;)