Erling Barth
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 331469 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Erling Barth |
| PRENOMES | Erling |
| SOBRENOME | Barth |
| ASSINATURA | BARTH E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institute for Social Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8658-0891 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 19 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Turning non-members into members
The Equality Hurdle
This article revisits a central tenet of the welfare state paradox, also known as the inclusion-equality trade-off. Using large-scale survey data for 31 European countries and the United States, collected over a recent 15-year period, the article re-investigates the relationship between female labour force participation and gender segregation. Emphasising the transitional role played by the monetisation of domestic tasks, the study identifies a '…
Openness and the welfare state
Have recent trends in globalization changed the positive link between trade openness and social insurance? The consensus view – that voters want better social insurance against income loss the more open the economy – is seemingly contested by the rise of new right-wing parties and the China shock. We present a theoretical framework of risk and income effects of globalization that captures the conventional view, but also shows when it will be modi…
Rising Inequality in the Egalitarian Nordics
The chapter demonstrates that while the Nordic countries remain relatively affluent and egalitarian, inequality of disposable household income has been on the rise over the past 30 years. The increase in income inequality and relative income poverty has been strongest in Sweden and more modest in three other countries. In Sweden and, to a lesser extent, in Finland and Denmark, a reduced role for social transfers among the working age population h…
Union Density Effects on Productivity and Wages
We exploit changes in tax subsidies for union members in Norway to identify the effects of changes in firm-level union density on productivity and wages. Increased deductions in taxable income for union members led to higher membership rates and contributed to a lower decline in union membership rates over time in Norway. Accounting for selection effects and the potential endogeneity of unionisation, the results show that increasing union density…
Geografisk variasjon i sosial mobilitet
Weathering the Great Recession
This paper finds that U.S. employment changed differently relative to output in the Great Recession and recovery than in most other advanced countries or in the United States in earlier recessions. Instead of hoarding labor, U.S. firms reduced employment proportionately more than output in the Great Recession, with establishments that survived the downturn contracting jobs massively. Diverging from the aggregate pattern, U.S. manufacturers reduce…
The Equality Multiplier: How Wage Compression and Welfare Empowerment Interact
We explore how more wage equality fuels the generosity of the welfare state via political competition in elections, and how a more generous welfare state fuels wage equality via empowerment of weak groups in the labor market. Together the two mechanisms may generate a cumulative process that explains how equality multiplies, and why countries with more equal distributions of market outcomes also have stronger welfare states. The complementarity b…
Youth unemployment and inactivity
Young people follow highly different trajectories from age 16 up to age 20, a time period which is often argued to be the most critical in terms of their future labour market outcomes. The focus of this report is on investigating the look of these early pathways, as well as on exploring their link to labour market outcomes in adulthood. Results are reported and compared for four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Political Reinforcement
We propose a political reinforcement hypothesis, suggesting that rising inequality moves party politics on welfare state issues to the right, strengthening rather than modifying the impact of inequality. We model policy platforms by incorporating ideology and opportunism of party members and interests and sympathies of voters. If welfare spending is a normal good within income classes, a majority of voters moves rightward when inequality increase…
The Nordic model – challenged but capable of reform
The Nordic welfare model has received a lot of positive attention around the world. High standard of living, small income disparities and substantial social mobility looks like a very attractive package. Moreover, sound public finances and strong emphasis on environmental sustainability suggest that today’s success has not been accomplished at the expense of future generations. But is there really a unique “Nordic Supermodel”, unshaken by the glo…
The Effects of Organizational Change on Worker Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Trade Unions
The authors explore the effects of organizational change on employee well-being using multivariate analyses of linked employer-employee data for Britain, with particular emphasis on whether unions moderate these effects. Nationally representative data consist of 13,500 employees in 1,238 workplaces. Organizational changes are associated with increased job-related anxiety and lower job satisfaction. The authors find that job-related anxiety is ame…
Do higher wages come at a price
Employer Size or Skill Group Size Effect on Wages
The authors analyze explanations for firm- or establishment-size effects on wages. One theory is that each firm faces an upward sloping supply curve for labor, implying that the number of any particular type of worker should matter for his or her level of pay, rather than the total number of workers in the firm. To test this hypothesis, the authors add the log of skill group size to the standard log wage equation. Results indicate that the tradit…
Education and Inequality Across Europe
Contents: Preface 1. Education, Wage Inequality and the Labour Market Peter Dolton, Rita Asplund and Erling Barth 2. Education and Income Inequality: A Macroeconomic Perspective Rita Asplund 3. School Quality and Educational Outcomes in Europe Andreas Ammermuller and Charlotte Lauer 4. Overeducation Across Europe Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez 5. Inequality in Access to and Finance of Tertiary Education Rita Asplund, Oussama Ben Abdel…
Local Unemployment and the Relative Wages of Immigrants
We provide evidence on wage profiles of immigrants using Current Population Survey data from 1979 to 2003, taking into account that changes in labor market conditions impact natives and immigrants differently. High rates of immigrant wage assimilation, in general, and relatively high wages of immigrant cohorts that arrived during the 1990s, in particular, can to a large extent be explained by a negative trend in unemployment in the data. Relating…
Mulighetenes land? Inntektsprofiler for innvandrere til Norge og USA
Lønnsforskjeller mellom kvinner og menn. En kommentar til Trond Petersen
Wages and Organizational Factors
In a market-clearing view of wage formation it is claimed that only external factors, namely the conditions in the labor market, affect wages for a given type of labor in any one firm. However, there are several non-market-clearing theories in which importance is given also to firm-specific variables. In this article the effects of organizational factors on the wage level of the firm are studied Using a data set with several observations from eac…
Political Reinforcement
We propose a political reinforcement hypothesis, suggesting that rising inequality moves party politics on welfare state issues to the right, strengthening rather than modifying the impact of inequality. We model policy platforms by incorporating ideology and opportunism of party members and interests and sympathies of voters. If welfare spending is a normal good within income classes, a majority of voters moves rightward when inequality increase…
Union Density Effects on Productivity and Wages
We exploit changes in tax subsidies for union members in Norway to identify the effects of changes in firm-level union density on productivity and wages. Increased deductions in taxable income for union members led to higher membership rates and contributed to a lower decline in union membership rates over time in Norway. Accounting for selection effects and the potential endogeneity of unionisation, the results show that increasing union density…
The Effects of Organizational Change on Worker Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Trade Unions
The authors explore the effects of organizational change on employee well-being using multivariate analyses of linked employer-employee data for Britain, with particular emphasis on whether unions moderate these effects. Nationally representative data consist of 13,500 employees in 1,238 workplaces. Organizational changes are associated with increased job-related anxiety and lower job satisfaction. The authors find that job-related anxiety is ame…
The Equality Hurdle
This article revisits a central tenet of the welfare state paradox, also known as the inclusion-equality trade-off. Using large-scale survey data for 31 European countries and the United States, collected over a recent 15-year period, the article re-investigates the relationship between female labour force participation and gender segregation. Emphasising the transitional role played by the monetisation of domestic tasks, the study identifies a '…
Do higher wages come at a price
Wages and Organizational Factors
In a market-clearing view of wage formation it is claimed that only external factors, namely the conditions in the labor market, affect wages for a given type of labor in any one firm. However, there are several non-market-clearing theories in which importance is given also to firm-specific variables. In this article the effects of organizational factors on the wage level of the firm are studied Using a data set with several observations from eac…
Mulighetenes land? Inntektsprofiler for innvandrere til Norge og USA
Turning non-members into members
Weathering the Great Recession
This paper finds that U.S. employment changed differently relative to output in the Great Recession and recovery than in most other advanced countries or in the United States in earlier recessions. Instead of hoarding labor, U.S. firms reduced employment proportionately more than output in the Great Recession, with establishments that survived the downturn contracting jobs massively. Diverging from the aggregate pattern, U.S. manufacturers reduce…
Wages and Organizational Factors
In a market-clearing view of wage formation it is claimed that only external factors, namely the conditions in the labor market, affect wages for a given type of labor in any one firm. However, there are several non-market-clearing theories in which importance is given also to firm-specific variables. In this article the effects of organizational factors on the wage level of the firm are studied Using a data set with several observations from eac…
Lønnsforskjeller mellom kvinner og menn. En kommentar til Trond Petersen
Mulighetenes land? Inntektsprofiler for innvandrere til Norge og USA
Local Unemployment and the Relative Wages of Immigrants
We provide evidence on wage profiles of immigrants using Current Population Survey data from 1979 to 2003, taking into account that changes in labor market conditions impact natives and immigrants differently. High rates of immigrant wage assimilation, in general, and relatively high wages of immigrant cohorts that arrived during the 1990s, in particular, can to a large extent be explained by a negative trend in unemployment in the data. Relating…
Education and Inequality Across Europe
Contents: Preface 1. Education, Wage Inequality and the Labour Market Peter Dolton, Rita Asplund and Erling Barth 2. Education and Income Inequality: A Macroeconomic Perspective Rita Asplund 3. School Quality and Educational Outcomes in Europe Andreas Ammermuller and Charlotte Lauer 4. Overeducation Across Europe Peter Dolton and Oscar Marcenaro-Gutierrez 5. Inequality in Access to and Finance of Tertiary Education Rita Asplund, Oussama Ben Abdel…
Employer Size or Skill Group Size Effect on Wages
The authors analyze explanations for firm- or establishment-size effects on wages. One theory is that each firm faces an upward sloping supply curve for labor, implying that the number of any particular type of worker should matter for his or her level of pay, rather than the total number of workers in the firm. To test this hypothesis, the authors add the log of skill group size to the standard log wage equation. Results indicate that the tradit…
Do higher wages come at a price
The Effects of Organizational Change on Worker Well-Being and the Moderating Role of Trade Unions
The authors explore the effects of organizational change on employee well-being using multivariate analyses of linked employer-employee data for Britain, with particular emphasis on whether unions moderate these effects. Nationally representative data consist of 13,500 employees in 1,238 workplaces. Organizational changes are associated with increased job-related anxiety and lower job satisfaction. The authors find that job-related anxiety is ame…
The Nordic model – challenged but capable of reform
The Nordic welfare model has received a lot of positive attention around the world. High standard of living, small income disparities and substantial social mobility looks like a very attractive package. Moreover, sound public finances and strong emphasis on environmental sustainability suggest that today’s success has not been accomplished at the expense of future generations. But is there really a unique “Nordic Supermodel”, unshaken by the glo…
Youth unemployment and inactivity
Young people follow highly different trajectories from age 16 up to age 20, a time period which is often argued to be the most critical in terms of their future labour market outcomes. The focus of this report is on investigating the look of these early pathways, as well as on exploring their link to labour market outcomes in adulthood. Results are reported and compared for four Nordic countries: Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
Political Reinforcement
We propose a political reinforcement hypothesis, suggesting that rising inequality moves party politics on welfare state issues to the right, strengthening rather than modifying the impact of inequality. We model policy platforms by incorporating ideology and opportunism of party members and interests and sympathies of voters. If welfare spending is a normal good within income classes, a majority of voters moves rightward when inequality increase…
The Equality Multiplier: How Wage Compression and Welfare Empowerment Interact
We explore how more wage equality fuels the generosity of the welfare state via political competition in elections, and how a more generous welfare state fuels wage equality via empowerment of weak groups in the labor market. Together the two mechanisms may generate a cumulative process that explains how equality multiplies, and why countries with more equal distributions of market outcomes also have stronger welfare states. The complementarity b…
Weathering the Great Recession
This paper finds that U.S. employment changed differently relative to output in the Great Recession and recovery than in most other advanced countries or in the United States in earlier recessions. Instead of hoarding labor, U.S. firms reduced employment proportionately more than output in the Great Recession, with establishments that survived the downturn contracting jobs massively. Diverging from the aggregate pattern, U.S. manufacturers reduce…
Geografisk variasjon i sosial mobilitet
Union Density Effects on Productivity and Wages
We exploit changes in tax subsidies for union members in Norway to identify the effects of changes in firm-level union density on productivity and wages. Increased deductions in taxable income for union members led to higher membership rates and contributed to a lower decline in union membership rates over time in Norway. Accounting for selection effects and the potential endogeneity of unionisation, the results show that increasing union density…
Rising Inequality in the Egalitarian Nordics
The chapter demonstrates that while the Nordic countries remain relatively affluent and egalitarian, inequality of disposable household income has been on the rise over the past 30 years. The increase in income inequality and relative income poverty has been strongest in Sweden and more modest in three other countries. In Sweden and, to a lesser extent, in Finland and Denmark, a reduced role for social transfers among the working age population h…
Openness and the welfare state
Have recent trends in globalization changed the positive link between trade openness and social insurance? The consensus view – that voters want better social insurance against income loss the more open the economy – is seemingly contested by the rise of new right-wing parties and the China shock. We present a theoretical framework of risk and income effects of globalization that captures the conventional view, but also shows when it will be modi…
Turning non-members into members
The Equality Hurdle
This article revisits a central tenet of the welfare state paradox, also known as the inclusion-equality trade-off. Using large-scale survey data for 31 European countries and the United States, collected over a recent 15-year period, the article re-investigates the relationship between female labour force participation and gender segregation. Emphasising the transitional role played by the monetisation of domestic tasks, the study identifies a '…
Economics (13 obras) · Labour economics (11 obras) · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality (9 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 obras) · Demographic economics (8 obras) · Wage (6 obras) · Employment and Welfare Studies (5 obras) · Geography (5 obras) · Psychology (5 obras)