劳动力市场制度与收入不平等

Labour market institutions and income inequality

Economic Policy · 2008
被引 167
人大 AABS 3

中文导读

统一了收入不平等的三种概念(个人收入、工资份额、家庭收入),分析劳动力市场制度如何影响它们,发现降低不平等的制度会推高失业率,并探讨了欧盟统一劳动标准的后果。

Abstract

Abstract: The recent debate on trends in inequality in industrial countries has been marred by the lack of consensus about the relevant concept of inequality. Labour economists are concerned with inequality in earnings, macroeconomists with movements in the wage share, while policy-makers tend to focus on household income inequality. We provide a unifying framework to study the relationship between these three concepts of inequality and their correlation with labour market institutions. Institutional measures exhibit significant associations with inequality, yet they play different roles depending on the extent to which they complement or substitute each other. As a result, we are able to propose a set of inequality minimizing institutions. Institutions that decrease inequality are, however, associated with higher unemployment, and our analysis explores the magnitude of this trade-off, and its implications if a common labour standard is imposed on members of the European Union.

劳动市场制度收入不平等工资不平等失业率