全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): The Equality Multiplier

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w15076
来源ID	Working Paper 15076
	The Equality Multiplier
	Erling Barth; Karl O. Moene
发表日期	2009-06-11
出版年	2009
语种	英语
摘要	Equality can multiply due to the complementarity between wage determination and welfare spending. A more equal wage distribution fuels welfare generosity via political competition. A more generous welfare state fuels wage equality further via its support to weak groups in the labor market. Together the two effects generate a cumulative process that adds up to an important social multiplier. We focus on a political economic equilibrium which incorporates this mutual dependence between wage setting and welfare spending. It explains how almost equally rich countries differ in economic and social equality among their citizens and why countries cluster around different worlds of welfare capitalism---the Scandinavian model, the Anglo-Saxon model and the Continental model. Using data on 18 OECD countries over the period 1976-2002 we test the main predictions of the model and identify a sizeable magnitude of the equality multiplier. We obtain additional support for the cumulative complementarity between social spending and wage equality by applying another data set for the US over the period 1945-2001.
主题	Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Labor Economics ; Labor Compensation ; Other ; Economic Systems
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w15076
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572752
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Erling Barth,Karl O. Moene. The Equality Multiplier. 2009.

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