Skip Navigation

This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to My Personal Archive
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow Search for citing articles in:
ISI Web of Science (8)
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Western, B.
Right arrow Articles by Healy, K.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us  
What's this?

European Sociological Review 15:233-249 1999
© 1999 Oxford University Press

research-article

Explaining the OECD Wage Slowdown Recession or Labour Decline?

Bruce Western and Kieran Healy

Department of Sociology 2-N-2 Green Hall, Princeton University Princeton NJ 08544-1010, USA.

Wage growth slowed significantly in OECD countries in the 1980s and 1990s. Market explanations trace the wage slowdown to a recession characterized by inflationary shocks, high unemployment, and slow productivity growth. Institutional accounts focus on the effects of union density, collective bargaining centralization, and labour government. Analysis of time series from 18 countries for 1966 to 1992 yields some evidence for both theories between 1966 and 1974. Bayesian methods indicate a structural break in the wage growth process, linking the wage slowdown of the 1980s to the declining power of labour movements.

Manuscript received: July 1, 1998.


Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 Socioecon RevHome page
L. Kenworthy, R. Munch, and J. R. Sutton
Bruce Western, Punishment and Inequality in America. New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2006
Socioecon. Rev., July 1, 2007; 5(3): 569 - 584.
[Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Work and OccupationsHome page
M. Gangl
Income Inequality, Permanent Incomes, and Income Dynamics: Comparing Europe to the United States
Work and Occupations, May 1, 2005; 32(2): 140 - 162.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social ScienceHome page
E. FUSSELL
The Transition to Adulthood in Aging Societies
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, March 1, 2002; 580(1): 16 - 39.
[Abstract] [PDF]


Disclaimer:
Please note that abstracts for content published before 1996 were created through digital scanning and may therefore not exactly replicate the text of the original print issues. All efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, but the Publisher will not be held responsible for any remaining inaccuracies. If you require any further clarification, please contact our Customer Services Department.