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abstract: 'This article analyses the relationship between government spending and
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the distribution of private income between capital and labour. While
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most previous research assumes that government spending redistributes in
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favour of the less wealthy, I distinguish between types of expenditures
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that enhance the bargaining position of labour - that is, unemployment
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benefits, public sector employment and investment in new capital - and
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labour-saving and pro-business types of expenditures - that is,
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outsourcing to private firms. The results are derived from various panel
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regression techniques on a panel of 19 Organisation for Economic
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Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries in the period 1985-2010
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and show that expenditures on public sector employment and, to a lesser
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extent, on new capital prevented the private wage share from declining
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further, even after controlling for labour market institutions,
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globalisation and technological change. Conversely, expenditures on
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outsourcing substantially contributed to reducing the private wage
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share. Unemployment benefits had a non-significant and negative effect
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on the private wage share because their increase was the consequence of
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higher levels of unemployment rather than policy. Implications for
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theory and policy are drawn, including the support for a public
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employment-led spending policy.'
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affiliation: 'Pensiero, N (Corresponding Author), UCL, Inst Educ, Dept Educ Practice
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\& Soc, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, England.
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Pensiero, N (Corresponding Author), UCL, Inst Educ, Ctr Learning \& Life Chances
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Knowledge Econ \& Soc, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL, England.
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Pensiero, Nicola, UCL, London, England.'
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author: Pensiero, Nicola
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author-email: n.pensiero@ucl.ac.uk
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author_list:
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- family: Pensiero
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given: Nicola
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da: '2023-09-28'
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doi: 10.1177/0020715217726837
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eissn: 1745-2554
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files: []
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issn: 0020-7152
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journal: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE SOCIOLOGY
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keywords: 'Government outsourcing; income inequality; power relations; public
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sector employment; spending policy; wage share'
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keywords-plus: 'INCOME INEQUALITY; LABORS SHARE; POWER RESOURCES; WORKERS POWER;
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EMPLOYMENT; SECTOR; MARKET; STATE; GLOBALIZATION; ORGANIZATION'
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language: English
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month: AUG
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number: '4'
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number-of-cited-references: '49'
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orcid-numbers: Pensiero, Nicola/0000-0002-2823-9852
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pages: 333-351
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papis_id: d7396322397639955249297389471c9f
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ref: Pensiero2017inhouseoutsourced
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researcherid-numbers: 'Pensiero, Nicola/AAO-4734-2020
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times-cited: '3'
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title: In-house or outsourced public services? A social and economic analysis of the
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impact of spending policy on the private wage share in OECD countries
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type: Article
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unique-id: WOS:000408628800003
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usage-count-last-180-days: '0'
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usage-count-since-2013: '16'
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volume: '58'
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web-of-science-categories: Sociology
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year: '2017'
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