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- Bengtsson, Erik, 1984
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Den ekonomiska globaliseringens dubbla rörelse
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Ingår i: Bortom horisonten: Fackets vägval i globaliseringens tid. - Stockholm : Premiss. - 9789186743178
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Bengtsson, Erik, 1984
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Do Unions Redistribute Income from Capital to Labour? Union Density and Wage Shares since 1960
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Ingår i: Industrial relations journal. - : Wiley. - 0019-8692 .- 1468-2338. ; 45:5, s. 389-408
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The income distribution between capital and labour is understudied within industrial relations. This article investigates the relationship between union density, taken as an indicator of the bargaining power of unions, and the wage share of national income in 16 advanced capitalist economies since 1960. It is shown that overall there is a positive relationship between union density and the wage share, as one would expect. But the relationship is weak or non-existent in the Nordic countries, and in some specifications in Germany and Anglo-Saxon countries, and overall it is weak in the 1980s and early 1990s. The article discusses the differences between countries in relationship to the literature on corporatism and wage moderation, and the decreasing effect over time with reference to increased global competition and conservatism of monetary policy from about 1980 on, increasing unions' incentives for wage moderation policies.
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- Bengtsson, Erik, 1984
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Education, state and citizenship
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 63:2, s. 203-205
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- Bengtsson, Erik, 1984, et al.
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Financial effects in historic consumption and investment functions
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Ingår i: International Review of Applied Economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-2171 .- 1465-3486. ; 34:3, s. 304-326
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The globalfinancial crisis has highlighted the importance offinan-cial factors on economic performance. Most of the existing research analyses the contemporary experience, and especially the 1980s onwards. This paper investigates the effects of stock prices, realestate prices and debt on consumption and investment expenditures by estimating consumption and investment equations for about 110 years of data for Britain, France, Norway and Sweden. We find positive debt effects on consumption in three of four countries, but no consistent effects of stock prices and house prices. Effects on consumption are stronger in the more market-based economy of Britain than in the more state-oriented economies of France, Norway and Sweden: in Britain but not in the other countries, consumption has increased in response to stock and house prices. We find positive effects of stock prices on investment in all four countries. Credit expansion boosts investment in some of the countries while house prices seem to have become more influential for investment after 1980. The results indicate that there is interesting variation in financial effects over time, and point forward for possible research on the interaction between financial variables and the real economy since the early twentieth century.
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- Bengtsson, Erik, 1984
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Labour’s Share in Twentieth Century Sweden: A Reinterpretation
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Ingår i: Scandinavian Economic History Review. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0358-5522 .- 1750-2837. ; 62:3, s. 290-314
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The distribution of national income between capital and labour is a classical theme in political economy. This paper takes a long-run perspective to the issue and asks two questions: How did the distribution of income between capital and labour develop in Sweden from 1900 to 2000? And how can this development best be explained? It is shown that labour's share in Sweden in the 100 years from 1900 to 2000 saw three important shifts, and the three shifts are analyzed. Around 1920, there was a surge in labour's share as workers mobilised in trade unions and universal suffrage and the eight-hour working day in manufacturing strengthened the bargaining power of workers. From 1950 until the late 1970s, there was another period of an increasing labour share, when the welfare state expanded and trade unions were strong. Contra the well-known postwar wage moderation analysis, there was no wage moderation in Sweden during the 1950s and 1960s, but rather the opposite: wages increased faster than productivity which caused a redistribution from capital to labour and reduced income inequality. The third shift occurred around 1980 when labour's share started a continuous decrease, beginning with several devaluations intended to increase profitability and competitiveness of Swedish business.
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- Bengtsson, Erik, 1984
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Märkets förhistoria: Så började industrins ledande roll i lönebildningen
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Ingår i: Arbetarhistoria. - 0281-7446. ; 40:159-160, s. 47-54
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- »Märket» på svensk arbetsmarknad innebär att exportindustrins löneöverenskommelse fungerar som norm för alla andra avtal. Det är ett omstritt system, men trots detta vet vi mycket lite om dess uppkomsts. I den här texten dyker ekonomhistorikern Erik Bengtsson djupt ner i källorna för att hitta bakgrunden till systemet, och finner att tidigare forskning haft fel i antagandet om att en lönepolitik liknande »märkets» går att finna redan i 1930-talets fackliga konflikter och avtal. Istället var det i LO-ekonomernas och ett ökande makroekonomisk tänkande som från slutet av 40-talet utvecklade drev på en mer samordnad lönepolitik.
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