Wage Bargaining in the Presence of Social Services and Transfers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6410705 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isabela Mares (0000-0002-8315-9708, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 99-142 |
| Publication date | 2004-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | World Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0043-8871 • E-ISSN: 1086-3338 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/wp.2005.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W2101545198 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 24 |
OECD economies were able to reconcile the pursuit of welfare state expansion and full employment during the first decades of the postwar period. Yet the trade-off between these two policy objectives widened in recent decades. To explore the question ofwhy this change occurred, this article extends familiar models of wage determination by adding a number of parameters that capture cross-national differences among welfare states. The model identifies the conditions under which unions deliver wage moderation in exchange for social policy benefits and transfers and explores how different labor-market institutions magnify or decrease the impact of wage choices on the equilibrium level of employment. Next, the author examines the impact of changes in the composition of social policy expenditures and in the level of the tax burden on. unions' wage choices. She shows that mature welfare states, characterized by high tax burdens and a high share of transfers devoted to labor-market outsiders, reduce the effectiveness ofwage moderation in lowering unemployment. The author tests the main propositions using OECD panel data for the period 1960–95
Economics · Labour economics · Macroeconomics · Market economy · Moderation · Panel data · Politics · Social Welfare · Unemployment · Wage · Wage bargaining · Welfare · Welfare state · Economic Theory and Policy · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The Welfare State in Global Perspective
Taxation, Wage Bargaining, and Unemployment
The Politics of Economic Inequality
Active or Passive? Reforming Employment Benefits in the OECD
Monopolistic Competition and Different Wage Setting Systems
The economic consequences of the welfare state
Evading the Patronage Trap
Union Strength, Neoliberalism, and Inequality
Incomes policies, welfare state development and the notion of the social wage
Crisis and choice in European social democracy
Organizing interests in Western Europe
Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies
Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945
Economics of Worldwide Stagflation
Politics and Business Cycles in Industrial Democracies
Wage Determination
Partisan theory after fifteen years
Order and conflict in contemporary capitalism
Taxation, Wage Bargaining, and Unemployment
Government Coalitions in Western Democracies
Mixed Signals
Wage-Setting Measures
Wage Bargaining, Central Bank Independence, and the Real Effects of Money
Left–Right Political Scales
The Bargaining System and Performance
What To Do (and Not to Do) with Time-Series Cross-Section Data
Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy
The Dynamics of Trade Unionism and National Economic Performance
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,45 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2019 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |