econghiy

But countries like France and Spain have persistently high unemployment rates yet much lower inequality than countries like Singapore and Hong Kong.

How do you explain that?

Several Asian countries like Singapore and Hong Kong have extremely high inequality rates yet far lower unemployment rates than the US. Where is your proof that inequality causes job losses?

Piketty used data that was "unreliable"

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

The ONS was used as a result. Piketty relied on similar self-reported surveys for his US data.