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Wage-led growth in the EU15 member states: the effects of income distribution on growth, investment, trade balance, and inflation

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  • Onaran, Özlem
  • Obst, Thomas

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This paper estimates a multi-country demand-led growth model for the EU15. A decrease in the share of wages in national income in isolation leads to lower growth in Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, whereas it stimulates growth in Austria, Belgium, Denmark and Ireland. However, a simultaneous decline in the wage share leads to an overall decline in the EU15 GDP; hence EU15 as a whole is a wage-led economy. Furthermore, Austria and Ireland also experience a decline in growth when they decrease their wage share along with their trading partners. The results indicate that the decline in the wage share had significant negative effects on growth in the EU15 and supports the case for wage coordination. We present different wage-led recovery scenarios and the effects on prices, investment, and net exports.

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  • Onaran, Özlem & Obst, Thomas, 2016. "Wage-led growth in the EU15 member states: the effects of income distribution on growth, investment, trade balance, and inflation," Greenwich Papers in Political Economy 14868, University of Greenwich, Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre.
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    Keywords

    Wage Share; Growth; European multiplier; Demand regime;

    JEL classification:

    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E25 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

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