Artists’ labour markets

Benhamou, Françoise

doi:10.4337/9781781008003.00013

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“…Influential overviews of artists' labor markets and research thereof are presented by Benhamou (2011) and Alper and Wassal (2006). Graddy (2013) explores the accuracy and persistency of rankings of famous artists conducted by the 17th century art critic Roger de Piles.…”

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What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850

Borowiecki

Dahl

2021

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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This research illuminates the historical development and clustering of creative activity in the United States. Census data is used to identify creative occupations (i.e., artists, musicians, authors, actors) and data on prominent creatives, as listed in a comprehensive biographical compendium. The analysis first sheds light on the socio-economic background of creative people and how it has changed since 1850. The results indicate that the proportion of female creatives is relatively high, time constraints can be a hindrance for taking up a creative occupation, racial inequality is present and tends to change only slowly, and access to financial resources within a family facilitates the uptake of an artistic occupation. Second, the study systematically documents and quantifies the geography of creative clusters in the United States and explains how these have evolved over time and across creative domains.

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What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850

Borowiecki

Dahl

2021

Regional Science and Urban Economics

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“…In addition, Baumol's cost disease hampers productivity gains (Baumol and Bowen 1966). Thirdly, the dominant artists' rewards are disproportionately higher than any differences in capabilities (Benhamou 2003), which goes against the cost reduction logic of adopting the dominant design.…”

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Reviewing Industry Life-cycle Theory: Avenues for Future Research

Peltoniemi

2011

International Journal of Management Reviews

112

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This paper explicates the key mechanisms and research themes of industry life-cycle theory and assesses the extent to which empirical evidence supports such an approach. It is based on a review of 216 industry life-cycle studies. The review of the theory is organized around industry emergence and transition to industry maturity. The key research themes concern changes in industry structure, changes in the nature of innovation, and the determinants of survival. Three potential special cases, i.e. services, complex products and systems, and cultural industries, are identified, and five research questions for future enquiry are presented. IntroductionThe search for regularities in the aging patterns of different industries has inspired the development of industry life-cycle (ILC) theory. The theory aims to explain changes in technological development and industry structure over the period that the industry ages. This stream of research began as the study of the American car manufacturing industry (Abernathy 1978;Abernathy and Clark 1985;Abernathy and Utterback 1978). It has become an established theory appearing in academic research, business school curricula and management consulting. There has been a constant stream of ILC studies exploring the theory's propositions in different industries and countries, and seeking more detailed explanations on various life-cycle phases. It is now a good time to take stock of the key research themes, examine the types of data used to build them, and summarize the empirical findings. This allows the research gaps and future research directions to be identified. The present paper aims to draw together current knowledge on ILC and thereby explore gaps for further enquiry. This is performed by reviewing the literature in order to (1) explicate the mechanisms that produce the life-cycle pattern, (2) summarize the key research themes, (3) assess empirical work relating to the themes and (4) identify research gaps to be addressed by future research.The starting point for the review was the identification of early and influential ILC papers. This was carried out through searches in ISI Web of Knowledge using the terms 'industry life cycle', 'product life cycle' and modifications thereof. Articles deemed to be early and influential life-cycle papers were those that (1) were cited more than 100 times, (2) were published prior to 2000, (3) were linked to Abernathy, Utterback and Klepper's work, and (4) used entries and exits as central variables. Citing Abernathy, Utterback or Klepper was used as a qualifier because their work is central to the literature in question, and they appear relatively early in the development of the theory. This resulted in a list of seven papers (Anderson and Tushman 1990; These articles were used to track the citing paths forwards and backwards in order to arrive at a comprehensive Acknowledgements: The author wishes to thank Mikko Jääskeläinen, Pasi Kuusela, Juha-Antti Lamberg and three anonymous reviewers for helpful discussions and comments on previous versio...

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“…In the general case of moonlighting the worker has generally been portrayed as someone with a permanent or reasonably secure job who seeks additional hours in a secondary labour market involving casual hiring (Shishko & Rostker, 1976; Conway & Kimmel, 1998; Dickey et al ., 2011). In the specific case of creative artists, a wide range of research into arts labour markets has established a clear three‐way separation of the avenues of work that artists can pursue (Throsby, 1996; Benhamou, 2011): creative work , that is, working at producing original creative output; arts‐related work , that is, working at an occupation such as art teaching that uses artistic skills but does not yield creative output; and non‐arts work , that is, working in an occupation outside the arts altogether. The three markets will differ in both the wage rates they offer and the psychic income they yield.…”

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Non‐Pecuniary Rewards, Multiple Job‐Holding and the Labour Supply of Creative Workers: The Case of Book Authors^*

Longden

Throsby

2020

Economic Record

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Non‐pecuniary rewards to work, or psychic income, are a pervasive phenomenon in several labour markets, yet they have been little investigated either theoretically or empirically. Creative industries are a particular case where non‐monetary incentives are widely observed. These are also industries where moonlighting commonly occurs because artistic or creative activity is generally low paid, such that workers have to balance their chosen pursuit with another job to make ends meet. In this paper we propose a labour supply model that accounts for the psychic income derived from creative work, monetary remuneration and heterogeneity between occupations in a multiple job‐holding context. The model is estimated using three‐stage least squares, allowing us to control for simultaneity bias due to the constraint of time and the tendency for multiple job‐holdings. We estimate the model using data from a survey of Australian book authors. The use of a proxy for psychic income, measured as the disparity between an author’s monetary compensation and a shadow price of labour, enables us to gauge the effects of non‐pecuniary benefits on the labour supply decisions of this type of creative worker.

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Artists’ labour markets

Cited by 19 publications

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What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850

What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850

Reviewing Industry Life-cycle Theory: Avenues for Future Research

Non‐Pecuniary Rewards, Multiple Job‐Holding and the Labour Supply of Creative Workers: The Case of Book Authors^*

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What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850

What makes an artist? The evolution and clustering of creative activity in the US since 1850

Reviewing Industry Life-cycle Theory: Avenues for Future Research

Non‐Pecuniary Rewards, Multiple Job‐Holding and the Labour Supply of Creative Workers: The Case of Book Authors*

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