Macroeconomic conditions, inequality shocks and the politics of redistribution, 1990–2013

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6289952
AutoresJonas Pontusson, Jonas G Pontusson (0000-0001-8550-9022, University of Geneva), David Weisstanner (0000-0002-4245-898X, University of Bern, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume25
Fascículo1
Páginas31-58
Data de publicação2018-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2017.1310280
OpenAlexW2608125076
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas26
Referências citadas39

This paper explores common trends in inequality and redistribution across OECD countries from the late 1980s to 2013. Low-end inequality rises during economic downturns while rising top-end inequality is associated with economic growth. Most countries retreated from redistribution from the mid-1990s until the onset of the Great Recession and compensatory redistribution in response to rising unemployment was weaker in 2008-13 than in the first half of the 1990s. As unemployment and poverty risk have become increasingly become concentrated among workers with low education, middle-income opinion has become more permissive of cuts in unemployment insurance generosity and income assistance to the poor. At constant generosity, the expansion of more precarious forms of employment reduces compensatory redistribution during downturns because temporary employees do not have the same access to unemployment benefits as permanent employees

Demographic economics · Development economics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Generosity · Inequality · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Recession · Redistribution (election · Redistribution of income and wealth · Unemployment · Employment and Welfare Studies · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Social Policy and Reform Studies