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development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage … inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are many high-productive firms (those that export), financial development may … have opposite effects - especially if trade costs are low. In sum, the implications of financial development for inequality …
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development for inequality in the global economy. If there are many small firms, better access to external funds reduces wage … inequality and unemployment. In contrast, if there are many highproductive firms (those that export), financial development may … have opposite effects - especially if trade costs are low. In sum, the implications of financial development for inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434439
Recent evidence on functional income distribution suggests that the shares of capital and labour in national income vary considerably both over time and across countries. Specifically, there seems to be a general reduction in the labour share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283932
Recent evidence on functional income distribution suggests that the shares of capital and labour in national income vary considerably both over time and across countries. Specifically, there seems to be a general reduction in the labour share around the world, in particular from the mid-1980s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548636
market outcomes (transmission channels) and to test how these translate into a greater (or smaller) income inequality …
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We study the evolution of labor shares in 1995-2014, while taking into account international trade based on value added concepts. Declines in labor shares accelerate in 2001-2007, concurrently with global value chain (GVC) integration, after which there is no trend for both. We develop a...
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This paper investigates determinants of changes of the labor share in developed countries with a focus on Western Europe. Using a country-industry panel that covers the private sector, the paper focuses on long and short-run changes within industries. The results show a large and time-persistent...
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We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999-2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549118
We study how technology adoption and changes in global value chain (GVC) integration jointly affect labor shares and business function specialization in a sample of 14 manufacturing industries in 14 European countries in 1999–2011. Our main contribution is to highlight the indirect effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260701
Countries subject to the same degree of exposure to globalization may experience very different levels of economic insecurity depending on social support or employment protections provided by the state or even due to insurance obtained by households. We identify five varieties of industrialized...
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