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标题：Employment as a Price or a Prize of Equality: A Descriptive Analysis
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作者：Erling Barth ; Karl Ove Moene
期刊名称：Nordic Journal of Working Life Studies
电子版ISSN：2245-0157
出版年度：2012
卷号：2
期号：2
页码：5-33
DOI：10.19154/njwls.v2i2.2355
出版社：Aalborg University
摘要：To put Scandinavian employment in perspective, we ask whether wage compression hampers employment rates, or not. We answer by reviewing the most important theoretical arguments and the most informative regularities across countries with different wage distributions. The pattern seems to be that countries with compressed wage distributions tend to have higher employment, and countries with higher wage inequality tend to have lower employment. This also holds when we consider the rate of labor force participation. In line with the theoretical arguments, coordination in wage bargaining seems to contribute to both employment expansion and wage compression. There is a clear positive correlation between coordination and employment even when we control for inequality, country, and year-specific effects.
关键词：Employment; wages; unemployment & rehabilitation
其他关键词：Employment;wages;unemployment & rehabilitation