Below is a question about the literature related to something
I'm writing.
I'm writing a paper on changes over the postwar period
in the US in what I call "wage dependence." Wage
dependence (WD) is the ratio:
employment income
WD = ---------------------------------------------------------------
employment income + government goods&services
where government goods&services are those that contribute
to workers' material standard of living (public education, public
health, part of the transportation network).
The lower is WD, the less dependent workers are on
capitalists for their standard of living and, so the greater
is workers' relative bargaining power. The ratio WD is related
to, but different from, the cost of job loss (which takes account
of unemployment insurance, length of unemployment, etc).
THE QUESTION:
There is the literature on the "social wage" which is primarily
concerned with the sign of:
gov't spending on workers - government taxes on workers.
In a 1982 Politics&Society article, Bowles&Gintis discuss the
"citizen wage", which is related to WD.
Do Pen-lers know of any other literature which has been directly
concerned with the ratio WD?
Thanks.
Eric
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Eric Nilsson
Department of Economics
California State University
San Bernardino, CA 92407
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