Labour-market institutions, (un)employment, wages, and growth: theory and data

C-Tier
Journal: Applied Economics
Year: 2018
Volume: 50
Issue: 6
Pages: 613-633

Authors (3)

Score contribution per author:

0.335 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 0.5x C-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

We analyse the implications of labour-market institutions on wage inequality in favour of skilled labour, on relative unemployment of unskilled labour, and on the economic growth rate in two clusters resulting from 27 OECD countries: Cluster 1, closely related with the Anglo-Saxon model, and Cluster 2, dominated by the Continental-European model. By linking the unskilled wage to the skilled one in Cluster 2, due to the indexation of social benefits to per-capita income, we accommodate the observed paths of the three variables in both clusters between 1991 and 2008: Cluster 1 presents a higher wage inequality in favour of skilled labour, a lower unemployment of the unskilled labour, and a better economic growth rate.

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RePEc Handle
repec:taf:applec:v:50:y:2018:i:6:p:613-633
Journal Field
General
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-24