Winds of change and policies. The inequality - employment trade-off in the OECD
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2008Autore
Destefanis, Sergio Pietro
Mastromatteo, Giuseppe
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Using a data-set of OECD countries from 1980 to 2004, we assess the crosscountry
evidence on the trade-off between wage inequality and employment
performance by relying on Data Envelopment Analysis, a nonparametric
technique usually employed in the analysis of productive efficiency. DEA allows
for the simultaneous determination of inequality and employment and treats the
potential trade-off between inequality and employment in a very flexible way. We
attribute the variations in the rates of unemployment and non-employment to two
components: the changes due to a variation in wage inequality along the
inequality-employment trade-off and the changes in efficiency which
simultaneously affect inequality and employment). We find that changes in
efficiency are a fairly important component of total changes.