Diverse Disparities: The Politics and Economics of Wage, Market and Disposable Income Inequalities

Beramendi, Pablo; Cusack, Thomas R.

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“…Recent contributions to this literature by students of comparative political economy explore the role of labor market institutions in a more systematic fashion. While some authors emphasize that more centralized or coordinated forms of wage bargaining generate wage compression (Wallerstein 1999;Beramendi and Cusack 2004), others point to the bargaining power of unions, measured by union density, as the key variable (Rueda and Pontusson 2000;Pontusson, Rueda, and Way 2002;Bradley et al 2003). Rueda and Pontusson (2000) also show that countries with large public sectors tend to have more egalitarian earnings distributions.…”

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“…Across all LIS observations for those eleven countries (N = 61), the correlation between Gini coefficients for gross earnings and Gini coefficients for market income is .98. Based on other data sources, Beramendi and Cusack (2004) report national averages for earnings from dependent employment as a percent of total market income over the period 1965-95: their figures range from 55% to 79%.…”

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Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

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2005

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Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

Kenworthy

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2005

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“…One implication of the redistribution-as-insurance logic is the following causal mechanism: For most people, employment is the main source of income (see Beramendi & Cusack 2004 for comparable numbers on the importance of wages for the personal disposable income). The most direct threat to this primary source of income is losing one's job.…”

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Citizen Support for the Welfare State: Determinants of Preferences for Income Redistribution

Rehm

2005

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“…Although there are some concerns about cross-national comparability, many studies have employed these data (e.g., Beramendi and Cusack 2009;Bradley et al 2003;Iversen and Soskice 2006;Moene and Wallerstein 2003), and the OECD has significantly improved data quality over multiple iterations. We use only the most recent version of the gross earnings data available (OECD 2007 OECD data, relative to other sources of data on market inequality, is that it provides separate measures of the upper and lower halves of the earnings distribution, while also providing reasonably long time series of annual observations for the countries included in our analysis.…”

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The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution

2011

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Against the current consensus among comparative political economists, we argue that inequality matters for redistributive politics in advanced capitalist societies, but it is the structure of inequality, not the level of inequality, that matters. Our theory posits that middle-income voters will be inclined to ally with low-income voters and support redistributive policies when the distance between the middle and the poor is small relative to the distance between the middle and the rich. We test this proposition with data from 15 to 18 advanced democracies and find that both redistribution and nonelderly social spending increase as the dispersion of earnings in the upper half of the distribution increases relative to the dispersion of earnings in the lower half of the distribution. In addition, we present survey evidence on preferences for redistribution among middle-income voters that is consistent with our theory and regression results indicating that the left parties are more likely to participate in government when the structure of inequality is characterized by skew

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Diverse Disparities: The Politics and Economics of Wage, Market and Disposable Income Inequalities

Cited by 20 publications

References 55 publications

Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries

Citizen Support for the Welfare State: Determinants of Preferences for Income Redistribution

The Structure of Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution

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