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abstract: 'In this study, we investigate how structural economic changes constrain
an equality project, the public-sector expansion strategy. First, we
describe a three-stage process in which a growing productivity gap
between the private-manufacturing and public-service sectors disrupts
traditional class solidarity. We contend that emerging conflicts between
private and public sectors due to public-sector expansion and a growing
inter-sectoral productivity gap eventually lead to employment and budget
crises, as well as the weakening of coordinated wage-setting
institutions. Furthermore, political, institutional, and economic
transformations originating from sectoral cleavages and imbalance lead
to increased income inequality. We test this argument using an
unbalanced panel dataset on 16 advanced industrial democracies from 1971
to 2003. We find that public-sector employment has a strong negative
effect on income inequality when the productivity gap between sectors is
low. In such situations, public-sector employment fulfills its promise
of equality and full employment. However, as the inter-sectoral
productivity gap increases, the negative effect of public-sector
expansion on income inequality evaporates. The findings suggest that
severely uneven productivity gaps due to different degrees of
technological innovations significantly weaken and limit the
effectiveness of left-wing governments'' policy interventions through
public-service expansion.'
affiliation: 'Lee, CS (Corresponding Author), Univ Chicago, Dept Sociol, 1126 E 59th
St, Chicago, IL 60637 USA.
Lee, Cheol-Sung; Shim, Jae-Mahn, Univ Chicago, Dept Sociol, Chicago, IL 60637 USA.
Kim, Young-Bum, Hallym Univ, Hallym Univ Inst Aging, Chunchon, South Korea.'
author: Lee, Cheol-Sung and Kim, Young-Bum and Shim, Jae-Mahn
author-email: chslee@uchicago.edu
author_list:
- family: Lee
given: Cheol-Sung
- family: Kim
given: Young-Bum
- family: Shim
given: Jae-Mahn
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1177/0003122410396195
eissn: 1939-8271
files: []
issn: 0003-1224
journal: AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW
keywords: 'public-sector employment; sectoral productivity gap; sectoral conflicts;
cross-class alliances; income inequality'
keywords-plus: 'WELFARE-STATE; FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT; RELATIVE POVERTY; INSTITUTIONS;
POLITICS; REDISTRIBUTION; GLOBALIZATION; GROWTH; LABOR; STRATEGIES'
language: English
month: FEB
number: '1'
number-of-cited-references: '101'
orcid-numbers: Shim, Jae-Mahn/0000-0002-7752-8204
pages: 100-124
papis_id: 77ff2ea6c2d09424d478774f3bf580c3
ref: Lee2011limitequality
researcherid-numbers: Shim, Jae-Mahn/B-7392-2014
times-cited: '21'
title: 'The Limit of Equality Projects: Public-Sector Expansion, Sectoral Conflicts,
and Income Inequality in Postindustrial Economies'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000287715100005
usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
usage-count-since-2013: '33'
volume: '76'
web-of-science-categories: Sociology
year: '2011'