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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968749103321

Autore

Guscina Anastasia

Titolo

Effects of Globalization on Labor’s Share in National Income / / Anastasia Guscina

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

9786613823625

9781462306404

1462306403

9781452707754

1452707758

9781283437721

1283437724

9781451910070

145191007X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (35 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Soggetti

National income - Developed countries - Econometric models

Foreign trade and employment - Developed countries

Wages and labor productivity - Developed countries

Employees - Effect of technological innovations on - Developed countries

Wages - Effect of technological innovations on - Developed countries

Wage bargaining - Developed countries

Globalization

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Economic theory

Employment protection

Employment

Environmental Accounts

Income economics

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Labor Contracts

Labor economics

Labor Economics: General

Labor share

Labor

Labour



Macroeconomics

Manpower policy

Measurement and Data on National Income and Product Accounts and Wealth

National income

Unemployment

Wages

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"December 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 32-33).

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. LITERATURE REVIEW""; ""III. EMPIRICAL STRATEGY""; ""IV. RESULTS""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""Appendix I. Compensation Share""; ""Appendix II. A First Pass at Data: Bivariate Regression Results""; ""Appendix III. Correlation Matrix of Explanatory Variables""; ""Appendix IV. Multivariate Regression Results for Alternative Specifications""; ""Appendix V. Inequality""; ""Appendix VI. Multivariate regression results for alternative specifications""; ""Appendix VII. Capital-Augmenting Technological Progress""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

The past two decades have seen a decline in labor's share of national income in several industrial countries. This paper analyzes the role of three factors in explaining movements in labor's share--factor-biased technological progress, openness to trade, and changes in employment protection--using a panel of 18 industrial countries over 1960-2000. Since most studies suggest that globalization and rapid technological progress (associated with accelerated information technology development) began in the mid-1980s, the sample is split in 1985 into preglobalization/pre-IT revolution and postglobalization/post-IT revolution eras. The results suggest that the decline in labor's share during the past few decades in the OECD member countries may have been largely an equilibrium, rather than a cyclical, phenomenon, as the distribution of national income between labor and capital adjusted to capital-augmenting technological progress and a more globalized world economy.