Thomas W Volscho
Biographic Data
| ID | 198674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas W Volscho |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Volscho |
| SIGNATURE | VOLSCHO T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of Staten Island |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 225 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Elite Sex Trafficking as a Crime of the Powerful: A Comparative Case Study of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Nygard's Alleged Trafficking Enterprises
The Revenge of the Capitalist Class: Crisis, the Legitimacy of Capitalism and the Restoration of Finance from the 1970s to Present
In the 1970s, US capitalism suffered a legitimacy crisis as the economy was mired in high inflation, unemployment, and slower growth. The rate of profit had been decreasing since the late 1960s and by the mid-1970s Wall Street was in poor shape. Capitalists politically mobilized in the 1970s to restore the rate of profit and to restore power to economic elites. In this article, I examine changes to the American economic system with special focus …
Conditional Status Quo Bias and Top Income Shares: How U.S. Political Institutions Have Benefited the Rich
This article develops and tests a model of conditional status quo bias and American inequality. We find that institutional features that bias policy outcomes toward the status quo have played a central role in the path of inequality. Using time-series analysis of top income shares during the post-Depression period, we identify the Senate as a key actor in the politics of income inequality. Our findings suggest that the supermajoritarian nature of…
Neoliberalism, Piven and Cloward's Bargaining Theory, and Wages in the United States, 1965-2006
The political economy of the United States during the last thirty years has been described as neoliberal. Part of the neoliberal turn involves reducing or eliminating income support programs such as AFDC/TANF, waging war against organized labor, and increasingly conservative (i.e., neoliberal) public policies. Following an analysis by Lewis (2001) which showed that wages increased in response to higher average monthly AFDC payments, I update and …
The Rise of the Super-Rich: Power Resources, Taxes, Financial Markets, and the Dynamics of the Top 1 Percent, 1949 to 2008
The income share of the super-rich in the United States has grown rapidly since the early 1980s after a period of postwar stability. What factors drove this change? In this study, we investigate the institutional, policy, and economic shifts that may explain rising income concentration. We use single-equation error correction models to estimate the long- and short-run effects of politics, policy, and economic factors on pretax top income shares b…
Racism and Disparities in Women's Use of the Depo-Provera Injection in the Contemporary USA
In the 1960s and 1970s widespread reports of sterilization abuse directed at women of color in the USA emerged. While such cases involved coercive or deceptive surgical sterilizations, new contraceptive technologies that temporarily sterilize women (Norplant and Depo-Provera) were approved for use in the US market by the state in the 1990s. In this study, I offer the concept of sterilization racism to explain the pattern and prevalence of 'racial…
Sterilization Racism and Pan-Ethnic Disparities of the Past Decade: The Continued Encroachment on Reproductive Rights
I n the late 1960s and through the 1970s, reports of coercive, involuntary, and otherwise nonconsenting sterilizations of American Indian, African American, Mexican, and Puerto Rican origin women began surfacing in the United States.1 These revelations came at a time of intense civil rights activity and political consciousness among non-white2 groups in the United States. American Indian and African American women and girls were especially impact…
Unions, government employment, and the political economy of income distribution in metropolitan areas
Minimum Wages and Income Inequality in the American States, 1960–2000
Metropolitan Earnings Inequality: Union and Government‐Sector Employment Effects
Objective. This study examines the effects of union density and government‐sector employment on earnings inequality in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the United States. Methods. Data on 167 MSAs from the 2000 Census are analyzed using standard regression techniques. Four measures of Atkinson's index (e=0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0) are used as the measure of earnings inequality for full‐time, year‐round workers. Results. MSAs with greater union d…
Money and Sex, The Illusory Universal Sex Difference: Comment on Kanazawa
Kanazawa tests the hypothesis, derived from Evolutionary Psychology, that men's income enhances their ability to engage in copulation with more partners and at a greater frequency. However, the results presented in Kanazawa's article fail to appropriately test for interaction effects and some of the analyses may suffer from sample-selection bias. I reestimate the equations appearing in Kanazawa's study and find (given the author's original method…
The Rise of the Super-Rich: Power Resources, Taxes, Financial Markets, and the Dynamics of the Top 1 Percent, 1949 to 2008
The income share of the super-rich in the United States has grown rapidly since the early 1980s after a period of postwar stability. What factors drove this change? In this study, we investigate the institutional, policy, and economic shifts that may explain rising income concentration. We use single-equation error correction models to estimate the long- and short-run effects of politics, policy, and economic factors on pretax top income shares b…
Conditional Status Quo Bias and Top Income Shares: How U.S. Political Institutions Have Benefited the Rich
This article develops and tests a model of conditional status quo bias and American inequality. We find that institutional features that bias policy outcomes toward the status quo have played a central role in the path of inequality. Using time-series analysis of top income shares during the post-Depression period, we identify the Senate as a key actor in the politics of income inequality. Our findings suggest that the supermajoritarian nature of…
Minimum Wages and Income Inequality in the American States, 1960–2000
Metropolitan Earnings Inequality: Union and Government‐Sector Employment Effects
Objective. This study examines the effects of union density and government‐sector employment on earnings inequality in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the United States. Methods. Data on 167 MSAs from the 2000 Census are analyzed using standard regression techniques. Four measures of Atkinson's index (e=0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0) are used as the measure of earnings inequality for full‐time, year‐round workers. Results. MSAs with greater union d…
Racism and Disparities in Women's Use of the Depo-Provera Injection in the Contemporary USA
In the 1960s and 1970s widespread reports of sterilization abuse directed at women of color in the USA emerged. While such cases involved coercive or deceptive surgical sterilizations, new contraceptive technologies that temporarily sterilize women (Norplant and Depo-Provera) were approved for use in the US market by the state in the 1990s. In this study, I offer the concept of sterilization racism to explain the pattern and prevalence of 'racial…
The Revenge of the Capitalist Class: Crisis, the Legitimacy of Capitalism and the Restoration of Finance from the 1970s to Present
In the 1970s, US capitalism suffered a legitimacy crisis as the economy was mired in high inflation, unemployment, and slower growth. The rate of profit had been decreasing since the late 1960s and by the mid-1970s Wall Street was in poor shape. Capitalists politically mobilized in the 1970s to restore the rate of profit and to restore power to economic elites. In this article, I examine changes to the American economic system with special focus …
Unions, government employment, and the political economy of income distribution in metropolitan areas
Neoliberalism, Piven and Cloward's Bargaining Theory, and Wages in the United States, 1965-2006
The political economy of the United States during the last thirty years has been described as neoliberal. Part of the neoliberal turn involves reducing or eliminating income support programs such as AFDC/TANF, waging war against organized labor, and increasingly conservative (i.e., neoliberal) public policies. Following an analysis by Lewis (2001) which showed that wages increased in response to higher average monthly AFDC payments, I update and …
Minimum Wages and Income Inequality in the American States, 1960–2000
Metropolitan Earnings Inequality: Union and Government‐Sector Employment Effects
Objective. This study examines the effects of union density and government‐sector employment on earnings inequality in Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) in the United States. Methods. Data on 167 MSAs from the 2000 Census are analyzed using standard regression techniques. Four measures of Atkinson's index (e=0.5, 1.0, 2.0, 3.0) are used as the measure of earnings inequality for full‐time, year‐round workers. Results. MSAs with greater union d…
Money and Sex, The Illusory Universal Sex Difference: Comment on Kanazawa
Kanazawa tests the hypothesis, derived from Evolutionary Psychology, that men's income enhances their ability to engage in copulation with more partners and at a greater frequency. However, the results presented in Kanazawa's article fail to appropriately test for interaction effects and some of the analyses may suffer from sample-selection bias. I reestimate the equations appearing in Kanazawa's study and find (given the author's original method…
Unions, government employment, and the political economy of income distribution in metropolitan areas
Sterilization Racism and Pan-Ethnic Disparities of the Past Decade: The Continued Encroachment on Reproductive Rights
I n the late 1960s and through the 1970s, reports of coercive, involuntary, and otherwise nonconsenting sterilizations of American Indian, African American, Mexican, and Puerto Rican origin women began surfacing in the United States.1 These revelations came at a time of intense civil rights activity and political consciousness among non-white2 groups in the United States. American Indian and African American women and girls were especially impact…
Racism and Disparities in Women's Use of the Depo-Provera Injection in the Contemporary USA
In the 1960s and 1970s widespread reports of sterilization abuse directed at women of color in the USA emerged. While such cases involved coercive or deceptive surgical sterilizations, new contraceptive technologies that temporarily sterilize women (Norplant and Depo-Provera) were approved for use in the US market by the state in the 1990s. In this study, I offer the concept of sterilization racism to explain the pattern and prevalence of 'racial…
Neoliberalism, Piven and Cloward's Bargaining Theory, and Wages in the United States, 1965-2006
The political economy of the United States during the last thirty years has been described as neoliberal. Part of the neoliberal turn involves reducing or eliminating income support programs such as AFDC/TANF, waging war against organized labor, and increasingly conservative (i.e., neoliberal) public policies. Following an analysis by Lewis (2001) which showed that wages increased in response to higher average monthly AFDC payments, I update and …
The Rise of the Super-Rich: Power Resources, Taxes, Financial Markets, and the Dynamics of the Top 1 Percent, 1949 to 2008
The income share of the super-rich in the United States has grown rapidly since the early 1980s after a period of postwar stability. What factors drove this change? In this study, we investigate the institutional, policy, and economic shifts that may explain rising income concentration. We use single-equation error correction models to estimate the long- and short-run effects of politics, policy, and economic factors on pretax top income shares b…
Conditional Status Quo Bias and Top Income Shares: How U.S. Political Institutions Have Benefited the Rich
This article develops and tests a model of conditional status quo bias and American inequality. We find that institutional features that bias policy outcomes toward the status quo have played a central role in the path of inequality. Using time-series analysis of top income shares during the post-Depression period, we identify the Senate as a key actor in the politics of income inequality. Our findings suggest that the supermajoritarian nature of…
The Revenge of the Capitalist Class: Crisis, the Legitimacy of Capitalism and the Restoration of Finance from the 1970s to Present
In the 1970s, US capitalism suffered a legitimacy crisis as the economy was mired in high inflation, unemployment, and slower growth. The rate of profit had been decreasing since the late 1960s and by the mid-1970s Wall Street was in poor shape. Capitalists politically mobilized in the 1970s to restore the rate of profit and to restore power to economic elites. In this article, I examine changes to the American economic system with special focus …
Elite Sex Trafficking as a Crime of the Powerful: A Comparative Case Study of Jeffrey Epstein and Peter Nygard's Alleged Trafficking Enterprises
Economics (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Economic inequality (5 works) · Inequality (5 works) · Labour economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Demography (4 works)